Surf - ASP Women´s World Tour 2007 er skudt igang!
Tidligere verdensmester Chelsea Hedges (tidl. Georgeson) formåede på den allerførste dag i ASP Women´s World Tour 2007, at vise fantastisk surf ved sit home spot Snapper Rocks på den australske guld-kyst.
World Touren startede igen I tirsdags (den. 27. februar).
Snapper Rocks, Gold Coast
Chelsea Hedges er en af mange elite-surfere der ikke har opnået det helt store ved Snapper Rocks. Det ser dog ud til at det godt kunne ændre sig for Chelsea i 2007.
Hedges udtaler: “I think that local advantage has proven itself over the last few years,” Hedges said. “Joel (Parkinson), Mick (Fanning) and Dean (Morrison) have all won an event here; Steph (Gilmore) has won here. You can read which wave to take off on and you have extra confidence too. We’ll just see what happens.”
Roseanne Hodges (ZAF)
Stephanie Gilmore som også er “Snapper Rock local” og vandt Roxy Pro I 2005 er for første gang med ved en event som en officiel World Tour deltager.
Tidligere har hun været med på Wild Card.
I sin tid som Wild Card har hun formået at vinde hele to events!
Gilmore: “I feel a bit experienced. I feel like I have some tour-time up my sleeve so I guess that’s an important thing if I want to do well in an event. Hopefully, I will end up in the final and it will be a really good start to the year. Chelsea’s really hungry. I can see it in her surfing. She’s my favorite female surfer and shes always improving. Chelsea is my pick for this event, if it’s not Layne Beachley.”
Stephanie Gilmore
Årets Wild Card; kun 14 årige Carissa Moore fra Hawaii (som vandt Roxy Pro Trials for at opnå Wild Card´et), formåede at vinde sit første heat over regerende World Champion, Lane Beachley fra Australien.
Lane Beachley kom ind som nummer to i første runde.
14-årige Moore (HAW) i aktion.
Moore: “I think Snapper is the perfect wave and it’s my dream come true just to be here. It’s not that big of a deal that I won, I just had fun surfing against Layne. I was very honored so I’m just stoked.”
Beachley: “It wasn’t really a great way to start the year,” Beachley said. “I don’t know whether I’m too relaxed or just exhausted, but either way, I’m not putting on a good show and I need to step it up to keep up with these teenagers.”
Roxy Pro bliver afholdt samtidig med Quiksilver Pro, en Foster’s ASP World Tour event.
Caroline Sarran (FRA)
Her på SheRiders vil vi som altid følge op på de forskellige events på kvindernes pro-tour. Indtil 11. marts vil det være ROXY Pro Gold Coast.
Du kan læse mere på www.aspworldtour.com
Stephanie Gilmore får sig en sludder med Kelly Slater inden Roxy Pro