Stats Wrap After Day 2
Another great day…
Round 2 got underway at lunchtime after the ladies surfed their round 1 heats…
With half of round 2 completed today, the top 15 surfers from last season are all through to round 3 along with 4 others from the top 27 and 5 WQS qualifiers. There are only 8 spots left in round 3 with 8 heats of round 2 still to surf.
Event highlights to-date.
In 2009 - 54 scores over 17 were posted by the top 45.
33 of them were posted by Fanning (11), Slater (9), Parko (7), Reynolds (6).
In the first 24 heats of 2010 there have been 5 already. Guess who has three of them? Fanning, Slater, Reynolds.
In 2008 Slater posted 24, Parko 10, Reynolds and Fanning 6 each, Jordy Smith 4.Same old same old.
All 3 wild cards lost today…
In Rd 2 Jordy Smith logged the best heat score of 2010 so far. © ASP
ROOKIES
This year 11 young surfers started their Dream Tour careers at Snapper Rocks in round 1.
4 of the 11 started with a winning heat. Brett Simpson, Dusty Payne, Owen Wright and Jadson Andre
3 more Rookies took to the water on day two, none of them won and all will leave Snapper Rocks with 33rd results to start the year.
Good luck at Bells boys!
MILESTONES
TAJ (300 heat wins)
In round 2 today, Taj Burrow won his 299th heat on the Dream Tour in his 13th year.
C.J. (200 wins)
In round 2 today, C.J Hobgood won his 199th heat on the Dream Tour in his 12th year.
Round 3 could see both these guys go into the record books with milestone wins.
100 EVENTS CLUB
Slater 183, Knox 178, Taj 134, Campbo 125, Andy Irons 116, CJ Hobgood 113
(next inductees Damo 99, Joel 94, Neco 94)
The day 2 winners… Red singlet day
USA mainland 4, Aussies 2, ZAF 1, Hawaii 1
Highest Scores Posted on the Gold Coast
19.93 - Joel Parkinson, Semi final 2009
19.83 – Kelly Slater Round 3 2007
19.63 – Andy Irons QF 2004
19.60 – Mick Fanning, QF 2003
19.53 – Mick Fanning QF 2007
19.50 - Chris Ward, Round 2 2005
The lowest scores on the Gold Coast belongs to Tom Whitaker, who had a heat score total of 2.34 in a Semi final in 2004.
There has been 146 scores under 10 points posted in Quiksilver Pro history.
18 of them have been posted so far this year in just 24 heats.
2 of these 146 scores were winning scores.
In 05 Tom Whits won with a score of 9.67 against Occy 6.73 in the Quarters.
And in 07 Josh Kerr won in round 4 with a score of 9.16 against Jeremy Flores who had 7.67.
In the very next round Kerr lost to Mick Fanning with the only losing score over 19.00 in history.
Fanning 19.53 def Kerr 19.10, the highest combined total on the Gold Coast. (38.63) 2nd highest in history
The highest combined score in the history of the two-wave scoring era went down in Fiji back in 2004 when Damien Hobgood USA 19.90 def Andy Irons Hawaii 18.96 (38.86) in the final.
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Aloha,
Mike Newman
RAS Sports Surfing Stats