The Springbok Sevens team began their new era under head coach Sandile Ngcobo with a 21-0 victory over Uruguay on the opening day of the Hong Kong Sevens on Friday.

New Blitzbok coach Sandile Ngcobo said: “There were some nerves, the ball was quite greasy and the guys were sweating as well, so that all contributed to the slow start.

“We will take that to heart and see where we can improve. It was the win we wanted as we are only preparing for the next game, so the focus was on Uruguay and beating them. We created enough opportunities, but did not finish all of them, so we will look at ourselves on how we can do better and come back strongly.

“We have our minds set on winning our pool, and we can go to work on that tomorrow in the two remaining pool games.”

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