Saturday 13 December 2014 20:05, UK
South Africa backed up their Dubai triumph with an emphatic start to the Port Elizabeth stage of the World Sevens Series.
The Blitzbokke added to their opening win with a 38-7 win over Kenya, with Seabelo Senatla scoring first for the defending champions with a scintillating run.
Branco du Preez picked up the second to give the host nation a 12-0 lead and Senatla's second followed a Cecil Afrika five-pointer which made him South Africa’s all-time leading points scorer.
The USA pulled off a 38-12 win over Wales to keep their chances of reaching a first quarter-final of the season alive.
Wales started brightly before the USA fought back with two unanswered tries to Perry Baker and Madison Hughes for a 12-5 lead. USA dominated the second half, scoring 24 points to one Wales try.
Argentina beat Australia 31-21 to qualify in first place in Pool B, setting up a quarter-final meeting with Scotland while the Wallabies will take on Ben Ryan's Fiji.
Earlier in the day, Australia and Argentina secured quarter-final berths, both winning their opening two pool games against Portugal and Zimbabwe.
Current World Series leaders Fiji defeated Scotland 19-12 to record a clean sweep of wins on day one in Port Elizabeth.
Leading 19-7 at the break thanks to a double from Jasa Veremalua and the ever-present Osea kolinisau Fiji were then kept scoreless in the second half as the Scots reduced the margin to seven in a closely fought contest with the losing margin enough to help the Scots sneak into the top eight on points difference.
New Zealand have finished on top of the table in Pool D after a hard fought 5-0 victory over England, both teams already assured of competing in the quarter-finals on day two in Port Elizabeth.
England enjoyed the territorial advantage against defending HSBC World Series champions coming close to scoring on several occasions but they could not break through New Zealand's defence in a tightly contested first half. Joe Webber broke the deadlock in the second to put Gordon Tietjens' side through on top of the pool.
Whilst the outcome had no bearing on the final eight, Japan enthralled a vocal crowd with a 17-14 win over Samoa in their final pool match after trailing 14-0 at half time.
England beat Samoa 22-7 to advance to the quarter-finals. After a tight first half where Samoa took the early lead through a converted Lolo Lui try before England's Tom Mitchell reduced the margin to two points at the break and three tries in the second half gave England just the buffer needed.
Simon Amor's side also beat Japan 45-0 with Dan Norton scoring twice in their first match.
