Round 3 Stats & Results
RAS Surfing Stats Event One Gold Coast 2010… Day 4
Cheers everybody, round 3 is now complete and we are down to the final 16…
There are now just 15 heats left in the event until they Crown an event Champ for 2010…
With round 3 behind us, the final 16 surfers are all from within the top 28 ranked surfers coming into the event. 15 are re-qualifiers from 2009 and the WQS Champion from 2009 and Muscle Man Dan Ross.
Bede Durbidge posted the second plus 19 score of his career today. With wave scores of 9.93 and 9.37 and a total of 19.30 he blitzed Luke Munro. It wasn’t the highest score of his career; his best was his 19.40 he posted on the Gold Coast in 2007.
The waves pumped for day 4 of the Quiksilver Pro. © ASP
9 of today’s 16 heats were won by less than 2 points with the 4 closest being…
H 13; Dane Reynolds def Jeremy Flores by 0.34 pts
H 2; Adrian Buchan def Taylor Knox by 0.40 pts
H 14; Kieren Perrow def Mick Campbell by 0.63 pts
H 16; Jordy Smith def Tiago Pirez by 0.64 pts
ROOKIE FILE
This year 11 young surfers have started their Dream Tour careers at Snapper Rocks in event 1.
5 went into round 3 but none went through into round 4…
5 rookies have started the season with 17ths and the other 6 have taken 33rds home.
MILESTONE FILE
TAJ (300 wins)
In round 3, Taj Burrows won his 300th heat on the Dream Tour in his 13th year.
Career to date; 134 events .. 492 heats .. 300 wins .. 61% win ratio
116 final heats; 59 quarters .. 38 semis .. 19 finals for 7 wins.
Taj wins an event 1 in every 19 events he surfs in…
The day 4 winners and the final 16 left in the event are…
Aussies 9 … USA 4 … Hawaii, ZAF & Brazil 1 each.
9 of the final 16 have won a Dream Tour event before.
So with 7 surfers having not won before, there is a chance that event 1 might see a first time winner…
16 Surfers left in the event - what have they done here before
1 had never been past round 2… he has now. Congrats Dan Ross.
6 have never been past round 4: Davidson, Otton (2), Patacchia (2), Reynolds, Perrow, Smith (2).
2 have made the quarters but never won a final: Buchan (2), D Hobgood (2).
1 has made the semis but never been to the final: Martinez.
3 have been runner up in the event: Burrows, Durbidge, de Sousa)
3 have won the event before: Slater (2), Parkinson (2), Fanning (2)
Round 4 & the Finals could be on today.
Aloha,
Mike Newman
RAS Sports surfing stats
QUIKSILVER PRO GOLD COAST ROUND 3 RESULTS:
Heat 1: Adriano de Souza (BRA) 16.00 def. Jadson Andre (BRA) 14.46
Heat 2: Adrian Buchan (AUS) 14.10 def. Taylor Knox (USA) 13.70
Heat 3: Chris Davidson (AUS) 11.00 def. Tom Whitaker (AUS) 9.27
Heat 4: Taj Burrow (AUS) 12.84 def. Owen Wright (AUS) 6.67
Heat 5: Bobby Martinez (USA) 14.16 def. Andy Irons (HAW) 11.26
Heat 6: Damien Hobgood (USA) 14.73 def. Luke Stedman (AUS) 13.40
Heat 7: Kai Otton (AUS) 13.97 def. Dean Morrison (AUS) 12.60
Heat 8: Mick Fanning (AUS) 15.74 def. Brett Simpson (USA) 10.43
Heat 9: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 16.63 def. Dusty Payne (HAW) 12.20
Heat 10: Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) 14.17 def. Kekoa Bacalso (HAW) 12.64
Heat 11: Daniel Ross (AUS) 13.54 def. C.J. Hobgood (USA) 11.00
Heat 12: Dane Reynolds (USA) 13.57 def. Jeremy Flores (FRA) 13.23
Heat 13: Bede Durbidge (AUS) 19.30 def. Luke Munro (AUS) 7.37
Heat 14: Kieren Perrow (AUS) 13.06 def. Mick Campbell (AUS) 12.43
Heat 15: Kelly Slater (USA) 15.37 def. Patrick Gudauskas (USA) 7.56
Heat 16: Jordy Smith (ZAF) 15.23 def. Tiago Pires (PRT) 14.77
QUIKSILVER PRO GOLD COAST ROUND 4 MATCH-UPS:
Heat 1: Adriano de Souza (BRA) vs. Adrian Buchan (AUS)
Heat 2: Chris Davidson (AUS) vs. Taj Burrow (AUS)
Heat 3: Bobby Martinez (USA) vs. Damien Hobgood (USA)
Heat 4: Kai Otton (AUS) vs. Mick Fanning (AUS)
Heat 5: Joel Parkinson (AUS) vs. Fredrick Patacchia (HAW)
Heat 6: Daniel Ross (AUS) vs. Dane Reynolds (USA)
Heat 7: Bede Durbidge (AUS) vs. Kieren Perrow (AUS)
Heat 8: Kelly Slater (USA) vs. Jordy Smith (ZAF)