{"id":23082,"date":"2011-05-07T21:59:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T04:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=23082"},"modified":"2011-05-09T07:08:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T14:08:14","slug":"pupo-slips-gudauskas-in-lowers-pro-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=23082","title":{"rendered":"Pupo Slips Gudauskas In Lowers Pro Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Miguel-Pupo-Final\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tanner Gudauskas<\/strong> had a great run at Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro at Trestles<\/a><\/strong> this week, however, it all ended by six hundredths of a point in his final match up with Brazilian Miguel Pupo<\/strong> on Saturday, May 7, 2011. <\/p>\n

\u201cMiguel ripped and it makes it exciting when it\u2019s a close Final,\u201d Gudauskas said. \u201cCongratulations to him, it\u2019s been a fun week. . . This week has just been classic,\u201d Gudauskas said. \u201cIt has been a blur. I am just coming off of an ankle injury and wasn\u2019t expecting anything and I just started making heats and then I was in the final.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hawaiian Keanu Asing<\/strong> , 17, who won the ASP 5-Star Oakley Pro Junior. For all the official details, follow the jump.SAN CLEMENTE, California\/USA (Saturday, May 7, 2011) \u2013 Miguel Pupo (BRA), 19, has won the ASP PRIME Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro over local standout Tanner Gudauskas (San Clemente, CA), 22, at Lower Trestles at San Clemente\u2019s San Onofre State Beach in a close final of 13.63 to 13.57. Also clinching a victory today was Hawaiian Keanu Asing (Ewa Beach, HI), 17, who won the ASP 5-Star Oakley Pro Junior.<\/p>\n

Pupo will gain the valuable 6500 points towards his ASP World Ranking while Gudauskas\u2019 runner-up finish earns him 5200 points, each helping their campaigns towards qualification for the elite ASP World Tour. The Oakley Pro Junior\u2019s ASP 5-Star status offered the most points on offer towards surfers\u2019 campaigns towards qualification for the prestigious ASP World Junior Tour.<\/p>\n

Pupo, who was trailing Gudauskas throughout the first half of the Final, got the best of a crucial exchange by taking the heat\u2019s highest single-wave score of an 8.33 for a steep left that offered several turns which the progressive Brazilian completed with an air-reverse on the inside. Pupo found a back up score of a 5.30 on his last wave to secure the Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just so happy to win this event and I\u2019m sorry that I took out the town\u2019s local guy,\u201d Pupo said. \u201cI knew there was going to be a Brazilian in the Final. I was just trying to be that Brazilian and I can\u2019t believe I won. I\u2019m just so happy. I brought my father here and it\u2019s the first time he\u2019s gone to a contest with me and things just went my way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The talented Brazilian, who was sitting in 42 on the men\u2019s ASP World Ranking, will catapult up the standings with the win and substantially increase his chances of achieving his dream of qualifying for the elite ASP World Tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was thinking just about the points when I first got here, and this is great to win this event going into the next PRIME in Brazil,\u201d Pupo said. \u201cIt\u2019s my dream to make the World Tour and these points will help.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gudauskas, who was in need of a 6.50 to overtake Pupo for the victory, caught a last-minute wave in the Final on a lefthander and earned a 6.07 to nearly overtake Pupo for the win in front of his hometown crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cMiguel ripped and it makes it exciting when it\u2019s a close Final,\u201d Gudauskas said. \u201cCongratulations to him, it\u2019s been a fun week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gudauskas, who had just returned to the water after six weeks due to an ankle injury, entered the event with no expectations and surprised by the result.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis week has just been classic,\u201d Gudauskas said. \u201cIt has been a blur. I am just coming off of an ankle injury and wasn\u2019t expecting anything and I just started making heats and then I was in the final.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keanu Asing struggled to find a rhythm in the action packed Oakley Pro Junior Final against defending ASP World Junior Champion Jack Freestone (AUS), 19, current ASP North America Pro Junior Series leader Kolohe Andino (San Clemente, CA), 17, and 2009 ASP North America Pro Junior Series Champion Nat Young (Santa Cruz, CA), 19, but locked into a left just before the buzzer, linking a series of critical backside turns for an 8-point ride which proved enough to take out the Oakley Pro Junior victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really know, I was so down in that Final and was just trying to put on a good performance because there are a lot of people on the beach,\u201d Asing said. \u201cI got that one set and got an 8. I needed a 4 and was hoping I would get a wave and as I was paddling I asked Nat (Young) which wave he was going to go and he said he wasn\u2019t going. I\u2019m just glad I got that little wave at a clutch time in the heat, Mother Nature and God gave that one to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asing, who now sits at No. 2 on the ASP North America Pro Junior Series rankings, was quick to admit that the prestigious Oakley Pro Junior marked a pinnacle moment in his budding career.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is huge, to win this big event, it\u2019s a 5-Star, it\u2019s one of the biggest wins of my career for sure,\u201d Asing said. \u201cI\u2019m at a loss for words right now, I\u2019m just so excited and so happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro highlights log on to http:\/\/www.nike6lowerspro.com\/<\/p>\n

For Oakley Pro Junior highlights log on to www.oakleyprojunior.com<\/p>\n

For additional ASP information log on to www.aspworldtour.com<\/p>\n

Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro Final Results:
\n1 \u2013 Miguel Pupo (BRA) 13.63
\n2 \u2013 Tanner Gudauskas (USA) 13.57<\/p>\n

Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro Semifinals Results:
\nHeat 1: Tanner Gudauskas (USA) 12.03 def. Jesse Mendes (BRA) 11.33
\nHeat 2: Miguel Pupo (BRA) 16.70 def. Thiago Camarao (BRA) 12.67<\/p>\n

Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro Quarterfinals Results:
\nHeat 1: Tanner Gudauskas (USA) 16.37 def. Heitor Alves (BRA) 11.76
\nHeat 2: Jesse Mendes (BRA) 11.60 def. Kolohe Andino (USA) 8.33
\nHeat 3: Thiago Camarao (BRA) 14.50 def. Junior Faria (BRA) 11.47
\nHeat 4: Miguel Pupo (BRA) 15.24 def. Jadson Andre (BRA) 14.93<\/p>\n

Oakley Pro Junior Final Results:
\n1 \u2013 Keanu Asing (HAW) 13.70
\n2 \u2013 Jack Freestone (AUS) 13.43
\n3 \u2013 Kolohe Andino (USA) 13.30
\n4 \u2013 Nat Young (USA) 11.53<\/p>\n

Oakley Pro Junior Semifinals Results:
\nHeat 1: Kolohe Andino (USA) 12.00, Jack Freestone (USA) 9.73, Dylan Goodale (HAW) 9.37
\nHeat 2: Nat Young (USA) 14.77, Keanu Asing (HAW) 11.47, Conner Coffin (USA) 10.73, Andrew Doheny (USA) 9.14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tanner Gudauskas had a great run at Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro at Trestles this week, however, it all ended by six hundredths of a point in his final match up with Brazilian Miguel Pupo on Saturday, May 7, 2011. \u201cMiguel ripped and it makes it exciting when it\u2019s a close Final,\u201d Gudauskas said. \u201cCongratulations to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23082"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23083,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23082\/revisions\/23083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}