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Quiksilver 6-Star prime events push around WQS ratings

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 27 April, 2009 : - - Coolangatta -- Two major ASP WQS events, both sponsored in part or whole by Quiksilver, were completed this week with Brazilians taking both titles.

In Durban, at the ASP WQS 6-Star PRIME Quiksilver Pro Durban, Jadson Andre defeated Owen Wright from Australia. Semifinalists were also Aussies, Julian Wilson and Matt Wilkinson. Local Kyle Lane defeated Hawaiian Kiron Jabour in the ASP Pro Junior division.

Meanwhile in the same time zone, but way north in Portugal at the ASP WQS 6-Star Estoril Quiksilver Pro, Brazil’s Alejo Muniz defeated Japan’s Masa Ohno. This is the first time a Japanese surfer has come second in a major ASP WQS event. Equal thirds were Marlon Lipke from Germany and Romaine Cloitre from Reunion Island.

For both Jadson and Alejo, it is their first ASP WQS win. The ratings are really starting to sort themselves out now with Owen Wright jumping from 8th to 1st and Jadson moving into 2nd from 16th spot. Other big movers in the top 10 were unfortunately downwards with former number one Adam Melling ping to 6th and Dion Atkinson ping to 7th from 3rd.

The ASP WQS ratings Top 15 are as below:
Wright,Owen AUS 1 6613
Andre,Jadson BRA 2 6600
Ross,Daniel AUS 3 6400
Simpson,Brett USA 4 6200
Polo,Marco BRA 5 6075
Melling,Adam AUS 6 5576
Atkinson,Dion AUS 7 5125
Zubizarreta,Gony ESP 8 5100
Duru,Joan FRA 9 5038
Thompson,Jay AUS 10 4975
Paulino,Pablo BRA 11 4838
Jackson,Brandon ZAF 12 4800
Logie,Travis ZAF 13 4726
Silva,Jean da BRA 14 4650
Ohno,Masatoshi JPN 15 4601

Check the Full Ratings 

Only other events this week were the PLA longboard LQS in Ventura, California where Taylor Jensen and Kaitlin Maguire were the winners. This was Taylor’s second LQS win this year and Kaitlin’s first ever win.

That’s it for this week, but we have Scotland and Trestles ASP WQS 6-Star PRIMES on starting tomorrow. Things will be heating up next week.

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