Australia's sevens women have made a dazzling start to their Olympic-focused season, decorated by seven tries for Maddison Levi and a record scoreline in Dubai.
But the Australian men, who will be bolstered by the arrival of Wallaby great Michael Hooper in the New Year, looked out of sorts in the first event of the season's new-look world series as they just managed to scrape into the quarter-finals.
Levi, recently short-listed as world women's sevens player of the year, demonstrated just why as her team, the defending Dubai champs, blitzed into the last-eight on Saturday with a 39-0 win over Brazil, an unprecedented 66-0 thrashing of Japan and a 33-5 trouncing of Ireland.
