Maresia girls international decides title on Thursday in Brazil
MARESIA GIRLS INTERNATIONAL
ASP Women’s 6 STAR and ASP South America Women’s Star 2010
Praia Mole, Florianopolis – Santa Catarina – Brasil
20 - 23 September 2010
Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil (Wednesday, September 22, 2010) – A big thunderstorm this morning in the Santa Catarina Island almost forced the Maresia Girls International organizers to call the contest off for the day. Later on the heavy rain and the wind calmed down allowing for the 1st heat of round 2 to go to the water. With a fairly good 2-3 foot waves that built up throughout the day, the 6 heats of round 24 plus the 4 of the round 12 went on.
After qualifying for the quarter finals, the surf star from Santa Catarina, Jacqueline Silva, is already appearing on the list of six surfers who qualify for the ASP Women’s World Tour. Also Pauline Ado entered in the provisory list for the next year.
Both will have to work hard tomorrow on the decisive day at the contest held in Florianopolis. Pauline Ado will face the Australian Laura Enever and Jacqueline Silva is on the last heat to meet Diana Cristina who posted the third best combined score (13.84 pts) of today’s competition on round 3. On the second heat of the quarter finals, Silvana Lima feces USA’s Sage Erickson and in the third heat the Hawaiian Coco Ho and Peruvian Anali Gomez will make a rematch of the last week’s grand final at Bahia.
“This last heat was very tough”, said Jacqueline Silva, after getting a second place over Bruna Schmitz in a heat won by Coco Ho. ”I was kinda lost the whole heat; I only got low scores, with not many waves coming through, but even so I was able to advance in the second place. I think it was a lucky day for me and everything went right”.
In her first appearance this Wednesday, Jacqueline Silva eliminated two direct contenders for the World Tour, one was Hawaiian Bethany Hamilton and the other was the Australian Claire Bevilacqua, who’s now sharing the ranking’s 5th position with Jacqueline.
Tomorrow, French Pauline Ado faces Australia’s Laura Enever on quarter finals heat 1. Pauline will have to work hard to stay on the access list for the next year’s World Tour. She is being threatened by American Sage Erickson who’s going to face Brazilian Silvana Lima. Hawaiian Alana Blanchard, another contender for making the 6 women’s surfers list, was defeated by Silvana Lima and Pauline Ado in the Round 12.
“I’m very happy. The two heats I was in today were very tough, but I was able to find good waves to go through”, said Pauline Ado. “I didn’t know that I was into the list of six, it was good to know tough, but tomorrow I want to keep it cool and just focus on winning the heats. My main goal is to move upwards in the rankings to go to Hawaii not depending on the results there”.
Australian Laura Enever, who already won the Pro Junior Title this year, has practically guaranteed herself in the list to the next year’s ASP Dream Tour having made it to the quarter finals. She can even become the ranking’s leader in case of winning the contest in Brazil.
“Yeah, I prefer not to think on this, all I want is to keep winning the heats. I surfed well today and I want to still surf good tomorrow, without anything else in mind, but in getting good waves on the heats “, said Laura Enever.
The Maresia Girls International is an ASP South America sanctioned event, official sponsor is the Brazilian surf brand MARESIA and organized by Prefeitura Municipal de Florianopolis, Salva Surf Brasil, Federacao Catarinense de Surf e Associacao de Surf da Praia Mole. Co sponsor are: Praia Mole Eco Village, Jamaica Surf Shop, Tent Beach, Aloha Surf Shop, Overboard, Planeta Surf, Ecologica, Surf Trip, Sumatra, Bahamas Surf Shop, Bali, New Look Surfwear, Fissura Surf Wear, and Mabuya. Partners: Surf Magazines Fluir, Surfar and Solto, Portal Waves, Jornal Drop and broadcast by TV Woohoo.
Check the event live webcast at www.aspsouthamerica.com.br
Pictures credit: Daniel Smorigo (ASP South America)
About ASP: The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) is the recognized world governing body of professional surfing and has been crowning surfing’s undisputed World Champions since 1976. The ASP
Sanctions and crowns World Champions for the following tours: the ASP World Tour, the ASP Women’s World Tour, ASP World Junior Tour, ASP World Long board and Masters Championships. The ASP is dedicated to showcasing the world's best surfing talent in a variety of progressive formats and has revolutionized the way the world watches surfing via their webcasts and other media platforms. The organization is divided into seven different regions: Africa, Japan, Australasia, Europe, Hawaii, and North
America and South America.
QUARTER FINALS:
QF 1: Laura Enever (AUS) x Pauline Ado (FRA)
QF 2: Silvana Lima (BRA) x Sage Erickson (USA)
QF 3: Coco Ho (HAW) x Anali Gomez (PER)
QF 4: Jacqueline Silva (BRA) x Diana Cristina (BRA)
