It’s incredibly early days in the annual sevens calendar, but South Africa are sitting pretty at the top of the standings coming into their home leg hosted at Cape Town Stadium this coming weekend.

Round two follows a victorious effort for the Blitzboks in Dubai and much of their fortunes will hinge on the form of flyer Seabelo Senatla, arguably the best player in the world in this format.

Senatla goes into round two as the MVP of world sevens after scoring the most tries in round one and also coming out as the top points scorer with 55. Just to finish the trick, Senatla is also the man with the most clean breaks in the tournament so far (72). Early days of course, but encouraging signs for the SA side and they rightly arrive in the Mother City as heavy favourites.

South Africa have been grouped with Australia, Russia and USA in Pool A. The opening fixture sees the hosts squaring off against Russia and detailed ClickaBet odds and a match preview are below. These are the key individual metrics in the tournament thus far:

Points
Seabelo Senatla (SA) – 55
Dan Norton (England) – 45
Ethan Davies (Wales) – 45

For a more interesting punt, consider Australia vs USA, where the draw at the halftime whistle is offered at 8.02/1. This could be tempting in what is expected to be a tightly-contested affair. Back USA to win the match outright at 2.82/1.

Tournament odds from ClickaBet

The hosts are heavy favourites to lift the cup in Cape Town having been offered 2.05/1 odds to claim ultimate victory. Don’t underestimate the English side who have a few outstanding individuals in the shape of Tom Mitchell and Dan Norton. Australia, Scotland and Argentina, although distant outsiders, offer good value on smaller punts. View all odds on our Cape Town Sevens page.

South Africa favourites at 2.05/1

England 8.5/1

Australia 25s

Scotland 39s

Argentina 49s