Tuesday, 02 March 2010 00:00
Day Three Video Blog
Andy Irons floats back to the top. Pic Jones/Stryker
Still raining, but at least there's waves.
Will H-S
The rain and grey skies are making people anxious, let’s hurry up, get the early rounds over and see the big guys in the finals seems the prevalent attitude. Alas, finals are still a coupla days away with round two wrapping up for both the guys and gals today.
Yesterday in the first half of round two every top seed won their heat. You’d probably think ‘well why wouldn't they, they’re supposed to,' but it’s rare to see every low seed lose, and with all these hyped up rookies, where have the upsets been? Never in ASP history have the top seeds won every heat in round two, but until late this afternoon it was looking like the red rashies were going to do jus that to the unfortunate souls in the white lycra.
Dean Morrison draws blood for the top seeds. Pic ASP
The phenomenon continued this morning when an unlucky Matt Wilkinson drew the man who's surfed this break more than anyone, Dean Morrison. Wilko was ripping but unable to finish his waves off while Dingo picked the best of the heat and carved them to bits.
If anyone could break the curse surely it'd be Jay "Bottle" Thompson. Botts lives up the road and was against Kekoa Bacalso who hasn't surfed a board a shortboard in months ‘cos of how much his home breaks on the North Shore have been pumping. But it wasn't to be and Bottle took home a dreaded 33rd.“The Spartan", Michel Bourez was the first of the red jerseys to fall. Californian Pat Gudauskas broke the curse, quipping after "I just thought about it like black jack, red can't win 'em all." Not only did Pat break the curse for the underdogs, but he put a hex on the top seeds, every heat after the Gudauskas verse Bourez battle, saw the top seed go down.
Like Stedman rooster-tails his way into round three. Pic Jones/Stryker
2009's WQS winner Dan Ross downed Ben Dunn, Andy Irons was back to winning form against fellow Kauaian Roy Powers, but far from his best. AI started the heat looking stiff, surfing at 60% of what we know he’s capable of, but after a couple of waves he loosened up and almost looked like he was having fun with the two foot runners. To finish off round two Drew Courtney's big hacks couldn't match Luke Stedman's flow as the last 33rd was handed out for this event.
The low seed smackdown continued in the Roxy Pro, Nikita Robb and Claire Bevilacqua both bungled out in their round two elimination heats in the two heats run of the ladies.
The surf forecast looks promising for tomorrow, stay tuned to the webcast and check back here later for blog, pics and video.
RAS Stats Event One Gold Coast two10… Day 3
Hi all, round 2 is complete…
The final 8 heats of the round went down today…
With round 2 out of the way, the top 20 surfers from last season are all through to round 3
Going with them is also last years numbers 23, 24, 25, and 7 others from the 09 WQS
The other through to round 2 are the season wild cards, Andy Irons and Luke Stedman.
ROOKIE DAY
This year 11 young surfers have started their Dream Tour careers at Snapper Rocks in round 1.
5 are into round 3- Brett Simpson .. Dusty Payne .. Owen Wright .. Jadson Andre .. Pat Gudauskas.
MILESTONE FILE
Round 3
TAJ (300 wins)
In round 2, Taj Burrows won his 299th heat on the Dream Tour in his 13th year.
C.J. (200 wins)
In round 2, C.J Hobgood won his 199th heat on the Dream Tour in his 12th year.
Round 3 could see both these guys go into the record books with milestone wins.
The day 3 winners…
Aussies 5 … Hawaii 3.
32 surfers left in the event…
Aussies 15 … USA mainland 8 … Hawaii 4 … Brazil 2 … PRT, ZAF, France 1 each.
32 Surfers left in the event - what have they done here before
5 have never surfed in this event before
(Simpson .. Payne .. Wright .. Andre .. P. Gudauskas)
1 has never been past round 2
(Ross)
4 have never been past round 3
(Stedman (2) .. Becalso .. Munro (2) .. Pirez)
6 have never been past round 4
(Davidson .. Otton (2) .. Patacchia (2) .. Reynolds .. Perrow (2) .. Smith (2)
4 have made the quarters but never won a final
(Buchan (2) .. D Hobgood (2) .. C.J Hobgood (2) .. Campbell)
4 have made the semis but never been to the final
(Knox .. Whitaker (2) .. Martinez .. Flores)
4 have been runner up in the event
(Burrows .. Irons .. Durbidge .. de Sousa)
4 have won the event before
(Morrison .. Slater (2) .. Parkinson (2) .. Fanning (2)
3 of the 150 scores under 10.00 that have been posted on the Gold Coast were winning scores.
In round 3 today was the third…
In 2005 Tom Whits won with a score of 9.67 against Occy 6.73 in the Quarters.
In 2007 Josh Kerr won in round 4 with a score of 9.16 against Jeremy Flores who had 7.67
In 2010 Kekoa Becalso posted a 9.53 in round 2 to beat Jay Thompson 8.07
Round 3 could be on tomorrow.
Tune into www.aspworldtour.com first thing in the morning to see.
Aloha,
Mike Newman
RAS Sports surfing stats
QUIKSILVER PRO GOLD COAST REMAINING ROUND 2 RESULTS:
Heat 9: Dean Morrison (AUS) 15.17 def. Matt Wilkinson (AUS) 11.33
Heat 10: Kai Otton (AUS) 13.83 def. Nathan Yeomans (USA) 11.37
Heat 11: Kekoa Bacalso (HAW) 9.53 def. Jay Thompson (AUS) 8.07
Heat 12: Mick Campbell (AUS) 15.17 def. Adam Melling (AUS) 14.00
Heat 13: Patrick Gudauskas (USA) 13.00 def. Michel Bourez (PYF) 11.54
Heat 14: Daniel Ross (AUS) 12.43 def. Ben Dunn (AUS) 7.97
Heat 15: Andy Irons (HAW) 14.57 def. Roy Powers (HAW) 13.36
Heat 16: Luke Stedman (AUS) 10.44 def. Drew Courtney (AUS) 9.57
QUIKSILVER PRO GOLD COAST ROUND 3 MATCH-UPS:
Heat 1: Adriano de Souza (BRA) vs. Jadson Andre (BRA)
Heat 2: Taylor Knox (USA) vs. Adrian Buchan (AUS)
Heat 3: Tom Whitaker (AUS) vs. Chris Davidson (AUS)
Heat 4: Taj Burrow (AUS) vs. Owen Wright (AUS)
Heat 5: Bobby Martinez (USA) vs. Andy Irons (HAW)
Heat 6: Damien Hobgood (USA) vs. Luke Stedman (AUS)
Heat 7: Dean Morrison (AUS) vs. Kai Otton (AUS)
Heat 8: Mick Fanning (AUS) vs. Brett Simpson (USA)
Heat 9: Joel Parkinson (AUS) vs. Dusty Payne (HAW)
Heat 10: Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) vs. Kekoa Bacalso (HAW)
Heat 11: C.J. Hobgood (USA) vs. Daniel Ross (AUS)
Heat 12: Dane Reynolds (USA) vs. Jeremy Flores (FRA)
Heat 13: Bede Durbidge (AUS) vs. Luke Munro (AUS)
Heat 14: Kieren Perrow (AUS) vs. Mick Campbell (AUS)
Heat 15: Kelly Slater (USA) vs. Patrick Gudauskas (USA)
Heat 16: Jordy Smith (ZAF) vs. Tiago Pires (PRT)
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