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Neco Padaratz biggest mover after latest WQS events

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 20 July, 2009 : - - Coolangatta -- What a great comeback to professional competition for Neco Padaratz. Neco injured his back severely after the 2008 Boost Mobile Pro at Trestles and has been out of competitive surfing until this year’s ASP WQS at Trestles. Since then, he has competed in the last two events in Brazil where last week he came second place.

Neco cranked it up a notch at this week’s ASP WQS 6-Star Coca Cola Pro at Saquarema in Brazil, which was held in great surf for every day of the event and claimed his first victory since 2006. Neco’s impressive winning list now stands at 12 including two ASP Dream Tour events.

This win pushed Neco up to 54th from 111th with just three events counting. At the moment, Neco has not entered any other ASP WQS for the rest of this year so it will be interesting to see if he hits the European ASP WQS leg to try and requalify for the ASP World Tour in 2010.

Ratings movers: Upwards, we see not much in the top ranks except for Dusty Payne going from 17th to 11th. Downwards, nothing notable, which is good for them.

2009 WQS RANKING  – after 20 events:

1	Andre,Jadson	BRA	13350
2	Ross,Daniel	AUS	12225
3	Melling,Adam	AUS	12051
4	Wright,Owen	AUS	11338
5	Wilkinson,Matt	AUS	10925
6	Gudauskas,Tanner	USA	10700
7	Thornton,Blake	AUS	10638
8	Gudauskas,Patrick	USA	10513
9	Simpson,Brett	USA	10501
10	Duru,Joan	FRA	10188
11	Payne,Dusty	HAW	9800
12	Ware,Austin	USA	9763
13	Yeomans,Nathan	USA	9625
14	Logie,Travis	ZAF	9414
15	Munro,Luke	AUS	9189
16	Sedley,Leigh	AUS	8838
17	Polo,Marco	BRA	8826
18	Howse,Jarrad	AUS	8625
19	Neves,Leonardo	BRA	8613
20	Zubizarreta,Gony	ESP	8601
21	Atkinson,Dion	AUS	8576
22	Hall,Glenn	IRE	8513
23	Nicol,Yadin	AUS	8364
24	Cardoso,Willian	BRA	8314
25	Ohno,Masatoshi	JPN	8264
26	Silva,Jean da	BRA	8250
27	Gossmann,Shaun	AUS	8238
28	Dornelles,Rodrigo	BRA	8201
29	Gonzalez,Jonathan	CNY	8100
30	Giorgi,Marco	URY	8038
31	Cloitre,Romain	FRA	8026
32	Sodre,Yuri	BRA	8025
33	Dantas,Wiggolly	BRA	7963
34	Bryson,Royden	ZAF	7951
35	Jackson,Brandon	ZAF	7738
36	Thompson,Jay	AUS	7688
37	Paulino,Pablo	BRA	7651
38	Courtney,Drew	AUS	7513
39	Moura,Paulo	BRA	7314
40	Robertson,Adam	AUS	7226
41	Hedge,Nathan	AUS	7181
42	Toth,Brian	PRI	7139
43	Wright,Warwick	ZAF	7069
44	Lopez,Cory	USA	6970
45	Gudauskas,Dane	USA	6876
46	Collazo,Hodei	EUK	6851
47	Dorrington,Brent	AUS	6714
48	Palmboom,Rudy	ZAF	6592
49	Galvao,Renato	BRA	6513
50	Perry,Jack	AUS	6464

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That’s it for this week.Regards, Al Hunt ASP WQS Tour Manager.

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