Action this week was centered around the Hurley U.S. Open of Surfing with men’s and women’s ASP WQS 6-Star events and both boys and girls divisions of the juniors.
On the men’s ASP WQS ratings upward movement, we see Brett Simpson from 9th to 5th and Rodrigo Dornelles from 28th to 18th. Remarkably, not much else probably because ASP Dream Tour surfers Fanning, Hobgood, De Souza, Slater, Bourez and Curran stole all those big points, which they will most likely not use.
In the women’s event, Courtney Conlogue outpointed defending champion Malia Manuel while Laura Enever and Carissa Moore came equal 3rd. For Courtney, this was her 4th ASP WQS win, but by far, her biggest.
ASP Pro Junior winners were Malia Manuel in the girls division and Kai Barger, current ASP World Junior champion in the boys. This was Malia’s first ASP Pro Junior title, and for Kai, his 3rd victory in the ASP Pro Junior ranks.
Meanwhile in Bali at Keramas, the ASP Grade-5 Billabong Pro Junior was won by Dean Bowen, defeating fellow Aussie Teale Vanner. This was also a first time win for Dean.
Over in Spain at the ASP Grade-1 Vans Pro Junior at San Sebastian, Thomas Petterson was victorious in the boy’s division for his first win this year while in the girl’s Marie De Jean now has two wins.
ASP WQS ratings movers:
Womens – The deadlock between Carissa Moore and Coco Ho has finally been broken with Carissa hitting the No. 1 spot. However, seeing Coco is carrying a zero for her 5th best score and is only 240 points behind, she is actually in a better position. Sally Fitzgibbons has jumped from 15th to equal 8th with Ornella Pellizzari who moved from 4th. Sage Erickson up from 14th to 7th and most others, not much movement upwards except Rebecca Woods up from 12th to 5th.
Downwards, other than Ornella, were Nikita Robb from 9th to 13th.
The current Top 10 are:
1 Moore, Carissa HAW 7980
2 Ho, Coco HAW 7740
3 Bevilacqua, Claire AUS 6800
4 Miley-Dyer, Jessi AUS 6420
5 Woods, Rebecca AUS 6345
6 Hareb, Paige NZL 6240
7 Erickson, Sage USA 6170
8 Fitzgibbons, Sally AUS 6120
8 Pellizzari, Ornella ARG 6120
10 Donohoe, Amee AUS 6050
On the men’s ASP WQS ratings, upward we see Brett Simpson from 9th to 5th and Rodrigo Dornelles from 28th to 18th. Remarkably not much else.
Current Top 20 on the ratings:
Ross, Daniel AUS 1 13600
Andre, Jadson BRA 2 13350
Melling, Adam AUS 3 12051
Wright, Owen AUS 4 11963
Simpson, Brett USA 5 11863
Gudauskas, Patrick USA 6 11513
Wilkinson, Matt AUS 7 11425
Gudauskas, Tanner USA 8 10700
Thornton, Blake AUS 9 10638
Payne, Dusty HAW 10 10613
Duru, Joan FRA 11 10188
Yeomans, Nathan USA 12 9925
Ware, Austin USA 13 9763
Logie, Travis ZAF 14 9726
Munro, Luke AUS 15 9377
Sedley, Leigh AUS 16 9338
Nicol, Yadin AUS 17 8926
Dornelles, Rodrigo BRA 18 8826
Polo, Marco BRA 18 8826
Hall, Glenn IRE 20 8825
Photo: A very serious Adam Melling
Pic credit: Bernasconi
