Bok Women Seek a Solid Cup Start

Opener: Team Fancy Their Chances Against Brazil

- Nicholas Zaal

The Springbok women's team will likely have no easier game in the Rugby World Cup than their opening game against Brazil.

The South African ladies, ranked 12th in the world, play 25th-ranked Brazil for the first time at Franklin's Garden in Northampton on Sunday (kick-off 3:45pm), and are favourites to win.

They come from an important 41-24 victory against the New Zealand Black Ferns XV side earlier in the month.

Coach Swys de Bruin called the result one of the best performances he had seen since he joined the squad more than a year ago, adding it showed they were close to where they wanted to be in their last fixture before the World Cup.