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Event: Over for 2010
Scores: Off
Webcast: Off
Congratulations to Burton Toyota Pro Winner Glenn Hall (Ireland) and winner of Newcastle Womens Pro Kirby Wright (Australia)
See you all in 2011 . . . |
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| LOCAL DATE | 09 Sep 2010 |
| LOCAL TIME | 04:04 pm |
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Ninety-nine line-up for Burton Toyota Pro
Ninety-nine line-up for Burton Toyota Pro
NINETY-NINE SURFERS from around the globe will don the coloured singlets at next month’s Association of Surfing Professional’s (ASP) 4-star Burton Toyota Pro at Merewether beach from March 9-14.
Surfers from Australia, Hawaii, the USA, Mexico, Japan, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and Reunion will battle for $US85,000 in prize money on offer in the Burton Toyota Pro.
The jewel-in-the-crown of Surfest's 13-day festival will celebrate its silver anniversary next month and two former world champs - Mark Ochiluppo and Sunny Garcia - will reignite their own 25-year-battle for trophy supremacy at the local break of four-time world champion and contest patron Mark Richards.
While 1999's world champ "Occy" has twice (1986 and 1998) won at Newcastle, the 2000 world champion Garcia - who turned 40 last month - is yet to have his name etched on the roll of Newcastle champions. That honour roll impressively includes other ASP world title-holders Tom Curren (Surfest winner in 1985), Tom Carroll (Surfest winner in 1987 and 1989) and current world champion Mick Fanning (Surfest winner in 2000, 2002, 2005).
And following on from the event’s history-making innovation in 2009 when Surfest became the first contest in pro-surfing history to use two competitor heats for almost the complete contest schedule, the Burton Toyota Surfest will again feature man-on-man heats once the field is narrowed down to 64 surfers.
While two competitors per heat have been a long established format on the ASP World Tour, other surfing events have previously limited their use to finals.
Old Bar (NSW) local Ben Dunn - currently ranked 22 in the ASP world tour ratings - is the event’s number one seed, while number two seed is Drew Courtney from Umina on the New South Wales Central Coast. Other well-known surfers who have committed to the Burton Toyota Pro include 2003 Surfest winner Dayyan Neve, Phillip MacDonald, Clint Kimmins and Nathan Webster.
American Sage Erickson tops the seed list of 15 women competitors slated to contest the one-star $US8000 Newcastle Women's Open.
Last year’s winner, 18-year-old local Phillipa Anderson, who coincidentally shares a birthday - January 14 - with Sunny Garcia, will be eagerly defending her title on the back of some outstanding surfing on the Australasian junior tour, where she is currently sitting in fourth spot.
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