{"id":63272,"date":"2026-04-17T17:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/63272\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:39:12","slug":"cathay-hsbc-hong-kong-sevens-hong-kong-coach-sees-positive-side-of-womens-close-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/63272\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathay\/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens: Hong Kong coach sees \u2018positive\u2019 side of women\u2019s close escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong head coach Andy Vilk said there were always positives to take away after the city\u2019s women escaped with a draw against Denmark on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Playing in the Melrose Claymores tournament at the Cathay\/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens, the reigning champions found themselves in a bit of a hole after the visitors jumped to a 14-0 lead through tries from Sofie Giessing and Mille Elmbak either side of half-time.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Veteran Chong Ka-yan salvaged the day for the hosts with a pair of tries inside the final three minutes, her score and the conversion levelling matters at 14-14 seconds after the hooter had sounded at Kai Tak Stadium.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt was a rather tense game, so I was thinking \u2018let\u2019s not celebrate too much\u2019 after scoring the first try, and just passed the ball to the kicker for the conversion,\u201d Chong, who earned her 41st cap, said afterwards.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe numerical advantage we enjoyed certainly helped us to pull through, we were always thinking, we did not want to lose even when we were two tries down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chong Ka-yan scores against Denmark at Kai Tak Stadium on Friday. Photo: Elson Li\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cff91fa8-1237-428c-b714-1fd52e96cc8b_1126e908.jpg\" title=\"Chong Ka-yan scores against Denmark at Kai Tak Stadium on Friday. Photo: Elson Li\"\/>Chong Ka-yan scores against Denmark at Kai Tak Stadium on Friday. Photo: Elson Li<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Vilk said the Danes, who were visiting the Sevens for the first time, deserved full credit for their performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong head coach Andy Vilk said there were always positives to take away after the city\u2019s women&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[34813,227,34808,27,26,34806,5340,34805,34810,34812,34811,34807,2809,34809,3140],"class_list":["post-63272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-andrew-vilk","tag-canada","tag-chong-ka-yan","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-fiji","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-sevens","tag-hong-kong-sports-institute","tag-kai-tak-stadium","tag-melrose-claymores-tournament","tag-mille-elmbak","tag-rugby","tag-sofie-giessing","tag-thailand"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116421274284290255","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}