{"id":40493,"date":"2013-03-09T07:28:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=40493"},"modified":"2013-03-10T19:08:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T03:08:33","slug":"tyler-wright-snatches-roxy-pro-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=40493","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Wright Snatches Roxy Pro Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vZwmJ23oqms\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Australian home girls <strong>Tyler Wright<\/strong> , 18, and <strong>Sally Fitzgibbons<\/strong>, 22, faced off in the finals of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/roxylive.com\/roxyprogoldcoast\/2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Roxy Pro Gold Coast at Snapper Rocks<\/a><\/strong> on Saturday, March 8, 2013 and even though Fitzgibbons got things rolling early, Wright was able to snag a 9.2 in the final minutes of the heat to snatch the win right out of Sally&#8217;s fingers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t even know what to say right now,\u201d Wright said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t even thinking out there. I was singing to myself and when I came in, my sister said \u2018I was singing right along with you\u2019. That little wave came in and hugged the bank and I just left it all on the wave. To get the score and the win like that, it\u2019s incredible. . . \u201cI\u2019m not even thinking about the world title,\u201d Wright said. \u201cI had a rough season last year and I took a good break over the offseason, got a motorbike and just relaxed. To come back and get a win in the first event, it feels great and I\u2019m just going to enjoy it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the official word from the ASP follow the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TylerPodium5595RGC13WHS-w-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TylerPodium5595RGC13WHS-w-1.jpg','popup','width=600,height=400,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TylerPodium5595RGC13WHS-w-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"286\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Tylerpodium5595Rgc13Whs-W-1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SNAPPER ROCKS, Queensland\/Australia (Saturday, March 9, 2013) -Tyler Wright (AUS), 18, has claimed the 2013 Roxy Pro Gold Coast presented by Land Rover over Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS), 22, in punchy two-to-three foot (1 metro) waves at the primary venue of Snapper Rocks.<br \/>\nEvent No. 1 of 7 on the 2013 ASP Women\u2019s World Championship Tour (WCT), the Roxy Pro Gold Coast enjoyed a down-to-the-wire finish today with Wright and Fitzgibbons going head-to-head in a fiercely-fought Final.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Fitzgibbons holding the lead for the majority of the heat, Wright secured a wave in the dying moments and tore it apart for a 9.20 out of a possible 10, taking the heat lead and the win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t even know what to say right now,\u201d Wright said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t even thinking out there. I was singing to myself and when I came in, my sister said \u2018I was singing right along with you\u2019. That little wave came in and hugged the bank and I just left it all on the wave. To get the score and the win like that, it\u2019s incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With a win at the opening stop of the year, Wright takes the initial lead in the hunt for the 2013 ASP Women\u2019s World Title, but the young natural-footer is focused on enjoying the moment for now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not even thinking about the world title,\u201d Wright said. \u201cI had a rough season last year and I took a good break over the offseason, got a motorbike and just relaxed. To come back and get a win in the first event, it feels great and I\u2019m just going to enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgibbons, 2012 ASP Women\u2019s World Runner-Up, was one of the form surfers of the event and transferred that form into the Final. However, the young South Coast surfer permitted Wright to take the heat-winning wave from under her priority, a mistake that would cost Fitzgibbons dearly.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a hard one to swallow when you lose like that,\u201d Fitzgibbons said. \u201cTyler (Wright) is such a strong surfer and she trains really hard and she pulled it out on that final wave so congrats to her. Not the result I wanted, but still a strong start for me so I\u2019ll just regroup and focus on the next one.\u201d<br \/>\nCarissa Moore (HAW), 20, 2011 ASP Women\u2019s World Champion, continued with her brand of progressive ripping at the opening event of the season, but it was not enough this morning in her Semifinal clash with Fitzgibbons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was tough out there today,\u201d Moore said. \u201cI definitely didn\u2019t pick the right waves and there weren\u2019t that many to begin with. Congrats to Sally (Fitzgibbons) though. She was surfing really well. Semifinals is a good result to start the year and I\u2019ll look to build upon that over the course of the next few events.\u201d<br \/>\nStephanie Gilmore (AUS), 25, reigning five-time ASP Women\u2019s World Champion and 2012 Roxy Pro Gold Coast winner, was the favorite heading into this year\u2019s opening event and her form until the final day was near flawless. However, the hometown natural-footer was ousted from competition this morning in her Semifinal bout against an in-form Wright<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI put together a pretty good event until this point,\u201d Gilmore said. \u201cI haven\u2019t surfed Snapper that much in conditions like this so that definitely played a factor. My wave selection wasn\u2019t on today and Tyler (Wright) is so talented that I shouldn\u2019t have let my guard down with her. Sometimes a loss for me is good though \u2013 it lights a fire under me and makes me appreciate the wins that much more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next stop on the 2013 ASP Women\u2019s World Championship Tour (WCT) is the Drug Aware Margaret River Pro in Western Australia from March 16 \u2013 24, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>While the women\u2019s event has finished at Snapper Rocks, the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast is once again underway with Round 2.<br \/>\nWhen men\u2019s competition resumes, up first reigning ASP World Champion Joel Parkinson against event wildcard Brent Dorrington (AUS) in the opening heat of Round 2.<\/p>\n<p>The Quiksilver and Roxy Pro Gold Coast presented by Land Rover will be webcast LIVE via quiksilverlive.com<br \/>\nFor more information, log onto ASPWorldTour.com<\/p>\n<p>ROXY PRO GOLD COAST FINAL RESULTS:<br \/>\n1 \u2013 Tyler Wright (AUS) 17.97<br \/>\n2 \u2013 Sally Fitzgibbons 16.66<\/p>\n<p>ROXY PRO GOLD COAST SEMIFINAL RESULTS:<br \/>\nSF 1: Tyler Wright (AUS) 14.50 def. Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) 12.50<br \/>\nSF 2: Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) 14.97 def. Carissa Moore (HAW) 10.93<\/p>\n<p>QUIKSILVER PRO GOLD COAST ROUND 2 MATCH-UPS:<br \/>\nHeat 1: Joel Parkinson (AUS) vs. Brent Dorrington (AUS)<br \/>\nHeat 2: Adriano de Souza (BRA) vs. Dane Reynolds (USA)<br \/>\nHeat 3: Taj Burrow (AUS) vs. Willian Cardoso (BRA)<br \/>\nHeat 4: Josh Kerr (AUS) vs. Patrick Gudauskas (USA)<br \/>\nHeat 5: Owen Wright (AUS) vs. Dusty Payne (HAW)<br \/>\nHeat 6: Jeremy Flores (FRA) vs. Raoni Monteiro (BRA)<br \/>\nHeat 7: C.J. Hobgood (USA) vs. Tiago Pires (PRT)<br \/>\nHeat 8: Adrian Buchan (AUS) vs. Nat Young (USA)<br \/>\nHeat 9: Damien Hobgood (USA) vs. Adam Melling (AUS)<br \/>\nHeat 10: Kieren Perrow (AUS) vs. Filipe Toledo (BRA)<br \/>\nHeat 11: Kai Otton (AUS) vs. Glenn Hall (IRL)<br \/>\nHeat 12: Sebastian Zietz (HAW) vs. Kolohe Andino (USA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian home girls Tyler Wright , 18, and Sally Fitzgibbons, 22, faced off in the finals of The Roxy Pro Gold Coast at Snapper Rocks on Saturday, March 8, 2013 and even though Fitzgibbons got things rolling early, Wright was able to snag a 9.2 in the final minutes of the heat to snatch the [&hellip;]<\/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\/40493"}],"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=40493"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40505,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40493\/revisions\/40505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}