The Springbok Sevens started their HSBC SVNS Perth campaign on a strong note by winning their opening two Pool A matches at HBF Park on Friday.
Springbok Sevens head coach Sandile Ngcobo has picked two uncapped players in the Blitzbok squad that will travel to Australia for the inaugural HSBC SVNS tournament in Perth.
The Springbok Sevens will have to beat all-comers in Monaco on 21-23 June to earn their Olympic Games Paris 2024 ticket in the final World Rugby Sevens Repechage.
The Blitzboks are a team that are best when they have ball in hand and that showed a week ago when they triumphed in Dubai, but disappointingly for Springbok Sevens supporters, they could not do the same this weekend in Cape Town, and paid the price.
The Blitzboks lost 14-12 to Ireland in their final match on day one of the Cape Town SVNS but still made it safely through to the quarter-finals after earlier victories over Great Britain and USA.
When the Springbok Sevens team won the Dubai Sevens last Sunday, many of the Blitzboks found themselves overwhelmed by emotion for different reasons.