{"id":1483,"date":"2016-04-10T13:13:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T13:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2016-04-13T13:40:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T13:40:32","slug":"fiji-crowned-hong-kong-sevens-champions-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1483","title":{"rendered":"Fiji crowned Hong Kong Sevens champions again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/scmp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1485\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/scmp-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"scmp\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/scmp-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/scmp.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Fiji retain their title with a 21-7 win over New Zealand, while hosts HK got to the Qualifier tournament final but were beaten again by nemesis Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v2-processed\">That&#8217;s it for another year folks. Here&#8217;s the key takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"v2-processed\">\n<li>Fiji win 21-7 over New Zealand, their fourth title in Hong Kong in five years<\/li>\n<li>Stretch lead on World Series to 5 points over New Zealand<\/li>\n<li>England win plate, Argentina bowl, Russia shield<\/li>\n<li>Hong Kong make qualifier final but lose out narrowly to perennial nemesis Japan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"v2-processed\">Thanks for tuning in &#8211; we&#8217;ll be back for the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v2-processed\">Some reaction from Fiji coach Ben Ryan. Fiji have made 9 finals since he took over and won all 9, says colleague Matt Scott<\/p>\n<p class=\"v2-processed\">&#8220;It was a tight final and I thought our defence was very good,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v2-processed\">&#8220;I think we made the right decisions at the breakdown. I don&#8217;t think they were ever going to stop us scoring tries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v2-processed\">&#8220;We just needed to stop them scoring and for the majority of the game our\u00a0defence was very good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"v2-processed\">Source: SCMP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiji retain their title with a 21-7 win over New Zealand, while hosts HK got&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[5,9,3,33],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/scmp.jpg",980,660,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/scmp-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/scmp-300x202.jpg",300,202,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/scmp.jpg",640,431,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/scmp.jpg",640,431,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/scmp.jpg",980,660,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/scmp.jpg",980,660,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/scmp.jpg",980,660,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/scmp.jpg",705,475,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/scmp.jpg",468,315,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}