ASP World Tour

COOLANGATTA, Queensland (Monday, July 6, 2009)
In the ASP WQS 6-Star Mr Price Pro Ballito in South Africa, it was always going to be a surfer who could handle all sorts of surf conditions that would eventually win and that was USA’s Tanner Gudauskas.

In surf ranging from 10 feet high and just as wide Hawaiian-style barrels for the early few days down to 3-feet cross-shore peaks for the final days, Tanner and the other final 16 showed they could handle anything thrown at them.

Although the Aussies dominated the event, it was lone American who came out on top in after many close heats, but a one-sided Final against Australia’s James ’Taipan’ Wood.

For Tanner, it was his first ASP WQS win, and for James, a personal best having made 4th previously in an ASP WQS 4-Star in England 2004.

In the ratings, Dan Ross has jumped up one spot to be leading with 12,225 points and still carrying a zero and 600 pointer. Looks good for Daniel to make the ASP World Tour in 2010.

James jumped up from 158th to 76th, his highest ever rating.

Other movers upward were Tanner from 24th to 6th, Austin Ware 20th to 11th, Semifinalist Matt Wilkinson from 25th to 12th, while downwards Jean da Silva from 11th to 21st was the only real casualty.

Current Top 20 on the ratings:

Ross,Daniel AUS 1 12225
Wright,Owen AUS 2 11338
Melling,Adam AUS 3 11176
Andre,Jadson BRA 4 10975
Thornton,Blake AUS 5 10326
Gudauskas,Tanner USA 6 9575
Simpson,Brett USA 7 9351
Duru,Joan FRA 8 9264
Logie,Travis ZAF 9 9026
Gudauskas,Patrick USA 10 8888
Ware,Austin USA 11 8832
Wilkinson,Matt AUS 12 8800
Polo,Marco BRA 13 8769
Munro,Luke AUS 14 8626
Hall,Glenn IRE 15 8513
Howse,Jarrad AUS 16 8288
Atkinson,Dion AUS 17 8269
Zubizarreta,Gony ESP 18 8251
Sedley,Leigh AUS 19 8213
Gonzalez,Jonathan CNY 20 8100

Most are carrying a zero, or low scores that for sure will be replaced in the next few weeks during the two Brazilian and US Open events.

By the end of the US Open, we should have a very good idea of what is needed for the rest of the year as everyone should have their best seven results with good points.

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