Fiji seeded 3rd in HK 7s

Submitted by TemoL on Tue, 23/02/2010 - 9:20am

The Digicel Fiji 7s team is seeded third at this year's Hong Kong 7s tournament which will be held next month and are pooled alongside USA, Portugal and Thailand.

Based on performance in the two most recently completed Series events in Wellington and Las Vegas, Samoa are the top seeds in Hong Kong.

The 2007 champions head Pool A and face tough matches against Argentina and two European challengers, Russia and Italy.

Series leaders New Zealand are seeded second and head Pool B where they will play Scotland, France and Chinese Taipei on days one and two.

USA Sevens semi finalists Australia are fourth seeds and line up in Pool D alongside Canada, Tonga and China.

In Pool E, England face local rivals Wales, as well as the dual Asian challenge of regional heavyweights Japan and home favourites Hong Kong.

Finally in Pool F, traditionally the most evenly matched due to the seeding structure, all three African nations in the draw will go head to head: Kenya and Zimbabwe will both be out to upset reigning IRB Sevens World Series champions South Africa, while Korea complete the line up.

So far this season there have been three different Cup winners on the World Series.

New Zealand won the opening two events in Dubai and George, South Africa. Defending Hong Kong Sevens champions Fiji took the honours in Wellington and Samoa won the first USA Sevens title to be contested in Las Vegas.

The Hong Kong 7s tournament will be held from 26th to 28th March.