Portia Woodman and the rest of the Black Ferns sevens will play home side Australia in the world series final tomorrow
The 2017 World Rugby player of the year criticised NZ Rugby, her employers, for finding excuses for not hosting a women's tournament when New Zealand's leg of the sevens world series takes place at Waikato Stadium in Hamilton on February 3-4.
Day two of the HSBC Sydney Sevens Men's tournament saw the completion of round robin Pool play with the four pool winners and the runners-up qualifying for the Cup quarter-finals on day three.
Following South Africa's fourth, Dan Bibby's grubber and gather got England back in the game and although they pressured the men in green on a number of occasions, they were unable to cross and Senatla scored a breakaway try to secure the win.
Match of the round saw Australia beat US 26-19 with England, Argentina and France also winning their first matches.
In Pool B, Argentina claimed a narrow 7-5 win over Kenya and France beat Wales 31-12.
New Zealand sevens player Portia Woodman.
The biggest surprise of the day was Japan beating England but the host team Australia, targeting a second straight tournament win after victory in Dubai, made the most of a vocal national holiday crowd and remained unbeaten on day one after victories over Spain, Papua New Guinea and France.
"It's pretty impressive, an awesome effort to not concede any points at this level", she said of Australia. Russian Federation had previously beaten Ireland 19-7 and Fiji 19-12 to make their clash with Canada the pool decider.
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Defensive pressure was a key to Australia's semifinal win on Saturday. Australia's tough defense forced an early turnover and Emilee Cherry crossed in the left corner for Australia's first try.
The match was played nearly exclusively in the Spanish half, aside from a late raid on the Australian line to close the first half, with Australia still yet to concede a point in four games.
"New Zealand, current world champions and on fire", Australian coach Tim Walsh said.
"But they're a good side and going to be hurting from that defeat".
New Zealand showed their class conceding just one try on their way to three wins.
"It's still only day one and we had a game plan to make all our up front tackles and commit on defence".
Woodman tops the try-scoring charts in the sevens world series with 22 - seven more than team-mate Michaela Blyde in second place.
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