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Thursday 27 April, 2006<\/p>\n
Tavarua & Namotu Islands, Fiji<\/p>\n
ROXY PRO <\/p>\n
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In a d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu victory over six-time world champion Layne Beachley (AUS), Melanie Redman-Carr (AUS) has claimed her second title on the 2006 Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Women\u0092s World Tour calendar, the US$78,300 Roxy Pro in Fiji.Redman-Carr, 30, first triumphed over Beachley, 33, in the Roxy Pro final on Australia\u0092s Gold Coast last month. Her second win was in perfect six to ten foot (two to three metre) conditions at Fiji\u0092s Cloudbreak Reef today. Several tour surfers said today was the best day in women\u0092s professional surfing ever.<\/p>\n
\u0093Everything is transpiring in my favor, I\u0092m really pleased,\u0094 Redman-Carr said. \u0093Layne should have wanted to kill me after last time, but maybe she was tired. She surfed four heats today so I may have had the advantage having only surfed three times.\u0094 <\/p>\n
Asked about a world title, Redman-Carr said: \u0093This could be the year, it\u0092s certainly possible.\tThere\u0092s great waves on tour now and I\u0092m looking forward to all of the new events.\u0094<\/p>\n
Interestingly, both the ASP Women\u0092s World Tour and the Foster\u0092s ASP Men\u0092s tour have crowned repeat winners for the first two events of the year; seven-time world champion Kelly Slater\u0092s victories on the Gold Coast and Bells Beach have now been mirrored in Redman-Carr\u0092s Roxy Pro wins.<\/p>\n
Beachley, who also lost last year\u0092s Roxy Pro final in Fiji to Sofia Mulanovich (PER), was disappointed: \u0093It\u0092s so frustrating! You work so hard to get to a final, so to lose is really hard. I\u0092m thrilled I made it to the final, but at the same time I\u0092m really disappointed with the performance I put on out there,\u0094 Beachley said. <\/p>\n
\u0093Mel was just on fire. Full credit to her, she\u0092s been the most consistent performer over the two events and that\u0092s why she\u0092s won them. There\u0092s every opportunity that Mel could be world champion at the end of the year, but I\u0092ll be doing everything in my power to stop her.\u0094 <\/p>\n
Beachley stopped reigning world champion Chelsea Georgeson (AUS) in the semi-finals to advance through to the final. <\/p>\n
Georgeson said she found the conditions during her semi-final difficult: \u0093The onshore wind that came up during the semis was putting a lot of bump on the face of the wave and when you\u0092re on your frontside it makes it really hard to get under the lip. I know that when I surf a bumpy wave I prefer to be on my backhand like Layne was, but she surfed a really good heat and has a lot of experience out here and deserved to be in the final.\u0094<\/p>\n
The talented new crop of female surfers have now been officially put on notice that the veterans, who have 25 years of tour experience between them, have enjoyed back-to-back final berths.<\/p>\n
\u0093It\u0092s pretty crazy, they probably saw the headlines in Australia \u0096 \u0091Two Old Birds Have their Day\u0092 \u0096 or something, and it fired them up, it\u0092s pretty cool,\u0094 Georgeson said. \u0093These girls have been on tour for twice as long as some of us so they have a lot of experience but, on the other hand, the younger girls are fired up, we\u0092re fresh on tour, so it just makes it exciting.\u0094<\/p>\n
Rebecca Woods (AUS), the other Roxy Pro semi-finalist, surfed well throughout the event but could not catch the consistent Redman-Carr.<\/p>\n
\u0093Conditions changed dramatically in the hour and a half since I surfed last. It got really bumpy on the face of the wave and you had to choose the right ones and not fall off. The falling off part was a struggle for me in that heat. I kept coming off the top and catching chop and catching rail and that was it,\u0094 Woods said. \u0093Mel got that 7.0 at the start, and that was the wave of the heat really. I just lost to a better surfer today, Melanie is on fire.\u0094<\/p>\n
During her quarter-final heat, Redman-Carr got a front row seat to an incredibly entertaining and completely unprecedented jetski incident involving Keala Kennelly (HAW). Surfers are towed back into the lineup by jetski after their rides and Kennelly was on the back of the ski when the motor stalled and they were toppled onto the inside reef.<\/p>\n
\u0093Terry Ahue came to grab me with the jetski and I got on, but then the thing cacked out and flipped on the reef with me on the back. Terry flew off and I don\u0092t know how I hung onto the sled because we did a full 360 degree el rollo on the reef,\u0094 Kennelly said. <\/p>\n
\u0093We were on dry reef, I couldn\u0092t see Terry and the ski was up on a coral head, so I jumped on and started it again and took myself back out. It wasn\u0092t going to drive itself and I was still trying to win!\u0094<\/p>\n
Rochelle Ballard (HAW) was the unluckiest surfer during the Roxy Pro when she was eliminated by Claire Bevilacqua (AUS) in round three. Ballard, who needed a 4.25 to advance, didn\u0092t find the barrel that alluded her during the 30-minute heat until seconds after the hooter. <\/p>\n
Emerging from what her peers were touting the best tube they\u0092ve ever seen ridden at Cloudbreak, the undisputed opinion was that Ballard would have earned a 10-point ride for the critically deep barrel-ride had she performed it during her heat.<\/p>\n
The next leg of the ASP Women\u0092s World Tour will see the world\u0092s best women surfers charging heavy barrels in Teahupoo, Tahiti.<\/p>\n
ROXY PRO RESULTS<\/p>\n
FINAL: 1st earns US$10,600, 2nd earns US$6,600
\nFINAL: Melanie Redman-Carr (AUS)14.50 def. Layne Beachley (AUS) 9.50<\/p>\n
SEMIFINALS: 1st advances to FINAL, 2nd finishes equal 3rd and earns US$4,850
\nHEAT 1: Melanie Redman-Carr (AUS) 12.25 def. Rebecca Woods (AUS) 6.95
\nHEAT 2: Layne Beachley (AUS) 16.25 def. Chelsea Georgeson (AUS) 10.60<\/p>\n
QUARTERFINALS: 1st advances to the SEMIFINALS, 2nd finishes equal 5th and earns US$4,100
\nHEAT 1: Rebecca Woods (AUS) 14.50 def. Sofia Mulanovich (PER) 13.50
\nHEAT 2: Melanie Redman-Carr (AUS) 16.25 def. Keala Kennelly (HAW) 6.75
\nHEAT 3: Chelsea Georgeson (AUS) 13.75 Silvana Lima (BRA) 9.50
\nHEAT 4: Layne Beachley def. Claire Bevilacqua (AUS) <\/p>\n
CURRENT ASP WOMEN\u0092S WORLD TOUR RATINGS
\n1. Melanie Redman-Carr (AUS)\t2400 points
\n2. Layne Beachley (AUS) \t1944
\n3. Chelsea Georgeson (AUS)\t1116
\n3. Rochelle Ballard (HAW)\t1116
\n3. Samantha Cornish (AUS)\t1116
\n3. Rebecca Woods (AUS)\t1116
\n7. Silvana Lima (BRA)\t\t1104
\n8. Sofia Mulanovich (PER)\t912
\n8. Megan Abubo (HAW)\t\t912
\n8. Trudy Todd (AUS)\t\t 912
\n8. Keala Kennelly (HAW) 912
\n8. Claire Bevilacqua (AUS)\t 912
\n13. Heather Clark (ZAF) \t 720
\n13. Jessi Miley-Dyer (AUS)\t 720
\n13. Julia Christian (USA)\t 720
\n16. Jacqueline Silva (BRA)\t 540
\n17. Serena Brooke (AUS) 360<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thursday 27 April, 2006 Tavarua & Namotu Islands, Fiji ROXY PRO News, results and images on www.aspworldtour.com\/roxyprofiji In a d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu victory over six-time world champion Layne Beachley (AUS), Melanie Redman-Carr (AUS) has claimed her second title on the 2006 Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Women\u0092s World Tour calendar, the US$78,300 Roxy Pro in Fiji.Redman-Carr, … Continue reading “REDMAN-CARR POSTS BACK-TO-BACK ROXY PRO WINS”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-13468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surfing-news-archive","tag-surfing-news-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}