Rip Curl Pro Search Chile
\nStop No 4. of 10 on the 2007 Foster\u0092s ASP World Tour Ex-Isla Alacran, Arica, Chile June 20-July 1, 2007<\/p>\n
LIVE on www.aspworldtour.com and www.ripcurl.com\/chile<\/p>\n
ARICA, Chile (Thursday, June 20, 2007) \u0096 Only seven heats of the Rip Curl Pro Chile, stop No. 4 of 10 on the 2007 Foster\u0092s ASP World Tour, were run today, but near perfect rides were ridden in four of them. <\/p>\n
Former three-time ASP World Champion Andy Irons (HAW) earned a much-needed 9.70 out of 10.00 with just three minutes left in his heat against local Chilean wildcard Manuel Selman.\u0093I was ready to go home at the end of that heat; I was about to pack my bags and go and have a two-week break,\u0094 Irons said. \u0093It\u0092s just the way my year has been going. It was a really slow and sketchy heat and the local kid knew where to surf and got a couple of 6.0s. I had a 3.0 and thought that was it. I needed and 8.50, and that point, there weren\u0092t too many 8.50\u0092s coming through. I knew I was in trouble.\u0094<\/p>\n
The defending Rip Curl Pro Search champion was critically close to adding another 33rd (last) place result to his ratings scoreline when he twisted fate with a deep tuberide in the dying minutes of the heat. <\/p>\n
\u0093I was paddling into the wave and it sucked up like Pipe \u0096 it had a nice line to it,\u0094 Irons said. \u0093I made sure I was a little behind the peak and I knew I had to get really deep \u0096 I needed an 8.50. Right toward the end it got kind of washy and wild but when I came out it was instant relief; I knew I got the score, but I wasn\u0092t sure if he was on the wave behind me.\u0094<\/p>\n
Selman was on the wave following, but failed to emerge from the tube.<\/p>\n
The remaining four heats of Round 1 and the first three heats of Round 2 were run in solid eight to 10 foot (two to three plus metre) waves before inconsistent conditions and unfavorable winds forced officials to call off competition for the day. <\/p>\n
Like Irons, Leonardo Neves (BRA), Kai Otton (AUS) and Kieren Perrow (AUS) also posted waves in the high 9.0s today. Otton paired his 9.93 with an 8.17 to earn the highest heat total of the event thus far, an 18.10. His 9.93 wave score ties Neves\u0092 for the event highest as well.<\/p>\n
\u0093I love these kind of waves,\u0094 Otton said. \u0093I\u0092m from the South Coast in Australia\u0096 the far south coast of New South Wales \u0096 and there are reefs and ledges everywhere there. I\u0092ve grown up surfing these types of waves but this one is unbelievable. It\u0092s definitely dangerous. It\u0092s a nine out of 10 for danger for sure.\u0094<\/p>\n
Brazilian Leonardo Neves looked dangerous when he came out of a deep barrel to beat Cory Lopez (USA) and Shaun Cansdell (AUS) in their Round 1 clash.<\/p>\n
\u0093I dropped down, turned and didn\u0092t event look,\u0094 Neves said. \u0093The surfboard did all of the work and then when I came out of the barrel I thought maybe it would be a good score like a 7.0 or an 8.00. A minute or two later I heard the score and thought, \u0091wow, a 9.93, it was really good!\u0092 I am really happy.\u0094<\/p>\n
Former Foster\u0092s ASP World Tour surfer and event wildcard Perrow took out world No. 5 Bede Durbidge (AUS) after earning a 9.73 late in their Round 2 duel. <\/p>\n
\u0093The wave was doubling up so I really wanted to get underneath it at the start,\u0094 Perrow said. \u0093It\u0092s kind of hard to get in some of those waves out there so I tried to be a little deep. I took off and saw that section so I had to high-line it in the beginning, but then it really opened up. My board was getting bounced around a fair bit inside, but I saw the exit and it just sort of spat me through it. I was so stoked. It\u0092s the first time I\u0092ve claimed a wave in a while.\u0094<\/p>\n
Chilean wildcard Christian Merello was not quite as lucky. Morello pulled into a huge closeout wave and had to come in and regain his composure before heading back out into his heat with tour front-runner Taj Burrow. Burrow easily eliminated Merello in the large, almost life-threatening Round 2 conditions today.<\/p>\n
\u0093It\u0092s a crazy slab,\u0094 Burrow said. \u0093You just have to pick that right one and hopefully get spat out the end. When you come out, you have to start moving because if you get cleaned up in there you\u0092ll end up like Royden (Bryson) earlier \u0096 he got hammered. It was scary to watch. You\u0092ve got to get in and out.\u0094<\/p>\n
Bryson suffered a heavy wipeout and was washed up on the rocks during his Round 1 heat against fellow South Africans Greg Emslie and Travis Logie.<\/p>\n
\u0093It was a super weird heat,\u0094 Logie said. \u0093It was the first time that three South Africans have been in a heat in World Tour history. We thought it was going to be a fun heat, but it was actually a bit heavy. I snapped a board and Royden landed straight on dry reef and I think he\u0092s a bit concussed actually. He paddled back out and he was throwing up so I\u0092m a bit worried about him. I hope he\u0092s okay.\u0094<\/p>\n
Bryson is reported to be doing fine, as is Adriano de Souza who needed 15 stitches after hitting his head on the reef yesterday. Oddly enough, the two will meet up in Heat 11 of Round 2.<\/p>\n
With the swell expected to hold through tomorrow morning, contest officials are confident that Heat 4 of Round 2 will hit the water at 7:30am local time.<\/p>\n
Visit the media center on www.aspworldtour.com\/2007\/ripcurlpro for transcribed athlete interviews, downloadable wav files, hi-res images, heat by heat updates and more.<\/p>\n
RIP CURL PRO SEARCH CHILE ROUND 2 RESULTS:
\nHeat 1: Taj Burrow (AUS) 13.50 def. Christian Merello (CHL) 5.90 Heat 2: Andy Irons (HAW) 13.20 def. Manuel Selman (CHL) 12.00 Heat 3: Kieren Perrow (AUS) 13.73 def. Bede Durbidge (AUS) 11.50 <\/p>\n
TODAY’S RIP CURL PRO SEARCH CHILE ROUND 1 RESULTS:
\nHeat 13: Travis Logie (ZAF) 11.50, Royden Bryson (ZAF) 10.00, Greg Emslie (ZAF) 7.00 Heat 14: Leonardo Neves (BRA) 15.26, Cory Lopez (USA) 9.66, Shaun Cansdell (AUS) 5.10 Heat 15: Kai Otton (AUS) 18.10, Josh Kerr (AUS) 12.67, Rodrigo Dornelles (BRA) 7.00 Heat 16: Taylor Knox (USA) 13.90, CJ Hobgood (USA) 7.94, Dayyan Neve (AUS) 2.90<\/p>\n
RIP CURL PRO SEARCH CHILE REMAINING ROUND 2 MATCH-UPS:
\nHeat 4: Tom Whitaker (AUS) vs. Bruno Santos (BRA) Heat 5: Daniel Wills (HAW) vs. David Weare (ZAF) Heat 6: Cory Lopez (USA) vs. Luke Munro (AUS) Heat 7: Dean MOrrison (AUS) vs. Neco Padaratz (BRA) Heat 8: Chris Ward (USA) vs. Gabe Kling (USA) Heat 9: Ben Dunn (AUS) vs. Troy Brooks (AUS) Heat 10: Luke Stedman (AUS) vs. Michael Lowe (AUS) Heat 11: Adriano de Souza (BRA) vs. Royden Bryson (ZAF) Heat 12: Adrian Buchan (AUS) vs. Shaun Cansdell (AUS) Heat 13: Ricky Basnett (ZAF) vs. Rodrigo Dornelles (BRA) Heat 14: Frederick Patacchia (HAW) vs. Dayyan Neve (AUS) Heat 15: Bernardo Miranda (BRA) vs. CJ Hobgood (USA) Heat 16: Greg Emslie (ZAF) vs. Josh Kerr (AUS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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