PHILIP HENNING WINS FIRST ATP TITLE ON SOUTH AFRICAN SOIL IN UNFORGETTABLE RISE CENTURION OPEN FINAL 🎾 There are moments in sport that stop you in your tracks. Moments that remind you why you fell in love with the game in the first place. Sunday afternoon at the Irene Country Club in Centurion was one of them. Philip Henning, a 25-year-old kid from Bloemfontein who has been grinding away on the professional tour for years, won the biggest title of his career — and he did it at home, in front of his own people, in a match that had everything. 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #JustPlainSport #Tennis #ATPChallenger #CenturionOpen

🇿🇦 TRISTAN LEYDS NAMED HSBC SVNS MEN’S PLAYER OF THE YEAR AT BORDEAUX AWARDS CEREMONY Springbok Sevens flyhalf Tristan Leyds has been named the HSBC SVNS Men’s Player of the Year for the 2025/26 season, with the award confirmed at the season-ending ceremony in Bordeaux, France, following the HSBC SVNS World Championship Final. Leyds saw off competition from Australia’s Henry Hutchison and Fiji’s Vuiviwa Naduvalo to claim the honour, which is voted on and presented in partnership with HSBC. The award caps a remarkable individual season for the 24-year-old Somerset West-born playmaker, who was the creative heartbeat of a Blitzboks side that dominated the SVNS circuit for much of the campaign. The numbers behind his season tell a compelling story. According to SA Rugby’s official statistics, Leyds recorded the following across the 2025/26 HSBC SVNS series: • Tries: 15 • Conversions: 22 • Points scored: 119 • Metres made: 1,578 • Ball carries: 129 • Defenders beaten: 40 • Tackles made: 123 The Blitzboks won four consecutive tournament titles during the season — in Perth, Vancouver, New York and Hong Kong — with Leyds a driving force in each, combining sharp tactical kicking with incisive playmaking in the number ten channel. He earned Player of the Final honours at Vancouver after controlling the pace of a dominant 38-12 victory over Spain, and delivered a match-winning try deep into extra time against Great Britain in the Valladolid pool stages. South Africa went on to finish runners-up in Valladolid before heading to Bordeaux as the number one seed for the World Championship Final. Leyds made his Blitzbok debut in Perth in 2024 and comes from a family steeped in rugby, with older brother Dillyn Leyds having represented the Springboks in fifteens and enjoyed a successful club career in France with Stade Rochelais. Tristan’s own medal cabinet already includes a bronze from the 2024 Paris Olympic Games and a HSBC SVNS World Championship gold from the previous season. His Player of the Year award is the latest individual recognition in what has been a breakout season for South African sevens rugby.

🇿🇦 WELL DONE BULLS!! 🔥🔥🔥

🏆 THE BLITZBOKS ARE HSBC SVNS WORLD CHAMPIONS!!! 🔥🔥🔥

MARILOUISE VAN ZYL CLAIMS HER FIRST PROFESSIONAL TITLE FROM QUALIFYING TO CHAMPION! 🎾 South Africa’s tennis stars delivered a remarkable weekend in Botswana — and a 20-year-old led the way Marilouise van Zyl was selected for the South African national team five times across age groups from under-12 to under-18, competing at the African Junior Championships at each level. That kind of consistent national selection tells you everything about a player who was always on trajectory — even if the professional breakthrough took its time arriving. 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #JustPlainSport #Tennis #TennisSouthAfrica

🇿🇦 DAY 1 -BLITZBOKS RESULTS IN BORDEAUX 🏉 The Blitzboks have been drawn in Pool A, and all three matches are live on SuperSport at South African times: 📅 Friday 5 June — 15h06: South Africa vs Great Britain 📅 Friday 5 June — 20h36: South Africa vs Kenya 📅 Saturday 6 June — 11h06: South Africa vs Fiji HERE'S WHAT THE HEAD-TO-HEAD RECORD SAYS GOING IN: vs Great Britain — Played 17, won 12. Average score 21–12. Last match: Valladolid 2026 — won 17–12. vs Kenya — Played 73, won 64. Average score 26–10. Last match: Valladolid 2026 — won 14–0. vs Fiji — Played 111, won 46. Average score 16–17. Last match: New York 2026 Cup final — won 10–7. HERE IS THE FULL SQUAD PHILIP SNYMAN HAS NAMED FOR BORDEAUX: #2 Ryan Oosthuizen — 64 tournaments | 290 points | 58 tries #3 Impi Visser (Captain) — 52 tournaments | 245 points | 49 tries #4 Zain Davids — 59 tournaments | 255 points | 51 tries #5 Ricardo Duarttee — 24 tournaments | 389 points | 26 tries | 127 conversions #8 Selvyn Davids — 48 tournaments | 793 points | 107 tries | 129 conversions #10 Dewald Human — 33 tournaments | 330 points | 30 tries | 90 conversions #11 Siviwe Soyizwapi — 66 tournaments | 805 points | 161 tries #12 Shilton van Wyk — 34 tournaments | 385 points | 77 tries #14 Quewin Nortje — 14 tournaments | 170 points | 34 tries #15 Donavan Don — 15 tournaments | 123 points | 23 tries #16 Sebastiaan Jobb — 10 tournaments | 100 points | 20 tries #19 David Brits — 16 tournaments | 60 points | 12 tries #24 Tristan Leyds — 19 tournaments | 249 points | 31 tries | 47 conversions #31 Jayden Nell — 3 tournaments | 5 points | 1 try The form coming into this tournament is impossible to ignore. Shilton van Wyk leads the entire season with 125 points and 35 tries — both circuit highs. Tristan Leyds is second on the season's points table with 119. Ricardo Duarttee is third with 89. Sebastiaan Jobb is second in the season's try-scoring chart with 17. This is a squad with a point to prove in Bordeaux. Back the Blitzboks this weekend. 💚💛🏉 Just Plain Sport | 5 June 2026 | Written by Jay | JPS #Blitzboks #HSBCSVNS #Bordeaux2026 #SVNSWorldChampionship #Rugby7s #Bokke #JustPlainSport

DANIE ROSSOUW TURNS 48 🇿🇦 THE MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD CUP 🏉 There are rugby players who do their jobs quietly, in the shadows of the scoreboard. And then there are those who, in a single moment of desperate, committed brilliance, change the course of history. Danie Rossouw belongs firmly in the second category. Born on this very day, 5 June 1978, in Sabie, Mpumalanga, he turns 48 today.. Happy Birthday, Danie. 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #JustPlainSport #DanieRossouw #happybirthday

🇿🇦 THE BLITZBOKS ARE IN BORDEAUX — AND THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE IS WITHIN REACH! 🏉 South Africa head into the HSBC SVNS Bordeaux tournament as World Championship leaders with 38 points on the board — four clear of Argentina in second, with Australia on 30 and a three-way tie between Fiji, Spain, and New Zealand on 26. The Blitzboks have been drawn in Pool A, and all three matches are live on SuperSport at South African times: 📅 Friday 5 June — 15h06: South Africa vs Great Britain 📅 Friday 5 June — 20h36: South Africa vs Kenya 📅 Saturday 6 June — 11h06: South Africa vs Fiji HERE'S WHAT THE HEAD-TO-HEAD RECORD SAYS GOING IN: vs Great Britain — Played 17, won 12. Average score 21–12. Last match: Valladolid 2026 — won 17–12. vs Kenya — Played 73, won 64. Average score 26–10. Last match: Valladolid 2026 — won 14–0. vs Fiji — Played 111, won 46. Average score 16–17. Last match: New York 2026 Cup final — won 10–7. HERE IS THE FULL SQUAD PHILIP SNYMAN HAS NAMED FOR BORDEAUX: #2 Ryan Oosthuizen — 64 tournaments | 290 points | 58 tries #3 Impi Visser (Captain) — 52 tournaments | 245 points | 49 tries #4 Zain Davids — 59 tournaments | 255 points | 51 tries #5 Ricardo Duarttee — 24 tournaments | 389 points | 26 tries | 127 conversions #8 Selvyn Davids — 48 tournaments | 793 points | 107 tries | 129 conversions #10 Dewald Human — 33 tournaments | 330 points | 30 tries | 90 conversions #11 Siviwe Soyizwapi — 66 tournaments | 805 points | 161 tries #12 Shilton van Wyk — 34 tournaments | 385 points | 77 tries #14 Quewin Nortje — 14 tournaments | 170 points | 34 tries #15 Donavan Don — 15 tournaments | 123 points | 23 tries #16 Sebastiaan Jobb — 10 tournaments | 100 points | 20 tries #19 David Brits — 16 tournaments | 60 points | 12 tries #24 Tristan Leyds — 19 tournaments | 249 points | 31 tries | 47 conversions #31 Jayden Nell — 3 tournaments | 5 points | 1 try Back the Blitzboks this weekend. 💚💛🏉 #Blitzboks #HSBCSVNS #Bordeaux2026 #SVNSWorldChampionship #Rugby7s #Bokke #JustPlainSpor