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Wallaroos upset Black Ferns to secure Cape Town Sevens title
AP • December 8th, 2025 6:30 am
Bella Nasser was the standout player for the Wallaroos in their Cape Town Sevens win | Photo: Darren England/AAP
Australia's women gained sweet revenge over arch-rivals New Zealand as they secured the Cape Town Sevens title in impressive style on Sunday.
The Wallaroos shrugged off the disappointment of their defeat to the Black Ferns on the opening weekend of the World Sevens Series in Dubai with an unbeaten run to the title in South Africa, winning comfortably 26-12.
Aside from a try to the Black Ferns being chalked off due to a forward pass, the first half was all Wallaroos.
Following a ruck penalty, Heidi Dennis brushed off Kelsey Teneti for the opening try. Teagan Levi was over a minute later, breaking past Theresa Setefano and just before halftime, Bella Nasser scored from a tapped penalty to make it 19-0.
Straight after the interval, another ruck penalty finished with Maddison Levi busting past Teneti for a try converted by sister Teagan and 26-0.
Heidi Dennis scored Australia's opening try in the sevens final at Cape Town | Photo: Richard Wainwright/AAP
The defence then restricted New Zealand to tries by Teneti and Stacey Waaka while Jazmin Felix-Hotham knocked on at the try-line in a tackle by Nasser.
Player of the final Nasser said afterwards: "We hurt last week when we lost against the Kiwis.
"But we put it all out there today and I'm so proud of every single one of the girls. It was a big squad effort."
Later, South Africa became the first men's team to win back-to-back Cape Town Sevens since their predecessors 10 years ago.
But the Blitzboks were forced to come from behind in the last minute of their final against Argentina.
Marcos Moneta, who'd already scored two of Argentina's three tries, was stripped of the ball on halfway by Shilton van Wyk, who recovered to give the final pass and watched Christie Grobbelaar round in behind the posts.
The try tied the score at 19 and Ricardo Duarttee converted for 21-19 and South Africa's first lead in the final with less than 30 seconds left and they managed to hold on.
