The HSBC World Series Sevens rolled into Twickenham with a record crowd for day One.
The weather was mostly kind and there were some cracking games with a couple of surprise results. Kenya and Argentina were both on fire. Booking their places in the quarter-finals of the Cup along with New Zealand, Fiji, Australia, USA who had a magic day, England and South Africa. Wales, Samoa, France and Canada will fight it out for the bowl.
The qualification tournament is also on and here Portugal came out as top seeds and will play Georgia in the knock-out rounds, Spain Hong Kong, Zimbabwe Russia and Scotland Tonga.
So we had four wrong calls in the pool round, here are all the results:
Results Pool Round
01. 11 May 2013 09:30 New Zealand 24-7 Canada Pool B
02. 11 May 2013 09:52 Wales 19-31 Kenya Pool B
03. 11 May 2013 10:14 South Africa 5-0 Australia Pool A
04. 11 May 2013 10:36 United States 19-17 France Pool A
05. 11 May 2013 10:58 England 27-0 Fiji Pool C
06. 11 May 2013 11:20 Argentina 10-7 Samoa Pool C
07. 11 May 2013 13:40 New Zealand 31-17 Kenya Pool B
08. 11 May 2013 14:02 Wales 17-14 Canada Pool B
09. 11 May 2013 14:34 South Africa 17-14 France Pool A
10. 11 May 2013 14:56 United States 15-19 Australia Pool A
11. 11 May 2013 15:18 England 34-7 Samoa Pool C
12. 11 May 2013 15:40 Argentina 0-24 Fiji Pool C
13. 11 May 2013 16:02 Canada 12-38 Kenya Pool B
14. 11 May 2013 16:24 Australia 35-12 France Pool A
15. 11 May 2013 17:03 Fiji 33-7 Samoa Pool C
16. 11 May 2013 17:25 New Zealand 45-5 Wales Pool B
17. 11 May 2013 17:47 South Africa 12-19 United States Pool A
18. 11 May 2013 18:09 England 17-26 Argentina Pool C
Qualifier Results
Zimbabwe 12-7 Hong Kong
Scotland 29-0 Georgia
Tonga 19-17 Spain
Portugal 26-10 Russia
Hong Kong 17-12 Georgia
Scotland 21-14 Zimbabwe
Spain 19-14 Russia
Portugal 12-7 Tonga
Tonga 7-19 Russia
Portugal 7 -5 Spain
Zimbabwe 19-14 Georgia
Scotland 19-20 Hong Kong
As usual our picks in bold:
Fixtures Quarter-finals and Qualifiers Knock-out
Qual 1 Portugal v Georgia
Qual 2 Spain v Hong Kong
Qual 3 Zimbabwe v Russia
Qual 4 Scotland v Tonga
19. 12 May 10:28 New Zealand v Argentina QF Cup
20. 12 May 10:50 Kenya v Fiji QF Cup
21. 12 May 11:12 Australia v United States QF Cup
22. 12 May 11:34 England v South Africa QF Cup
23. 12 May 12:55 Wales v Samoa SF Bowl
24. 12 May 13:17 France v Canada SF Bowl
Our picks to progress in the Cup are New Zealand, Kenya, Australia and England.