[2] The defending tournament champions from 2019, South Africa,[3] finished in equal-seventh place, and also lost their thirty-six match win streak in the pool stage against the United States by 7–12.

The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup bracket, with the losers of the quarter-finals vying for a fifth place finish.

The sixteen national teams competing in Singapore were:[1] • Fiji returned from their absence since playing at the Dubai II event in November 2021.

[1] • New Zealand returned to the Sevens Series for the first time since the 2020 Vancouver event on 8 March 2020.

[7] • Samoa also played their first tournament of the series in Singapore,[1] returning after a similar hiatus to the New Zealand team.