ASP 6-Star Swatch Girls Pro France: Quarterfinal and semifinal results
Quarterfinals
In the first quarterfinal match of the ASP 6-Star Swatch Girls Pro France, American surfer, Courtney Conlogue won her heat with a winning score of 10.25. Conlogue beat Justine Dupont of France, who only managed a meagre 7.15 points. As a result of this victory,
Conlogue has qualified for the semifinals of the competition.
In the second quarterfinal heat, Australian Sally Fitzgibbons clinched first spot with a score of 12.00, while Paige Hareb of New Zealand got knocked out of the event with her 8.90 points.
In the third quarter final, American Sage Erickson won her vital heat against the Brazilian surfer Suelen Naraisa, after an extremely close competition. At the end of the heat, only 0.80 points separated the two surfers. Nevertheless, it was all smiles for
Erickson who scored 8.00 of her two waves, while Naraisa, with her 7.20 points, couldn't make it to the semifinals.
Meanwhile, Sarah Baum won the fourth and last quartefinal heat with a winning score of 14.25. Alana Blanchard of Hawaii had a miserable day and could not handle the waves the way she would've liked to. She got eliminated from the competition after scoring
8.40 points.
Semifinals
The first semifinal was a cracking competition between two surfers, who had been performing brilliantly throughout the event. Australian Sally Fitzgibbons grabbed the highest heat score of 15.67, whereas Courtney Conlogue of USA lost by the slightest of
margins; 0.67 points. She grabbed 15.00 points in that heat.
Conlogue said after the heat, “Definitely in this contest Sally is one of the toughest competitors. She and I compete against each other all the time and it is either one or the other but she got my number today. I will see how it goes in the next one but
here she surfed very well so it was not a bad battle to lose.”
In the second semifinal match of the Swatch Girls Pro, Sage Erickson won her heat against Sarah Baum. The heat was a low-scoring affair and when Erickson scored 10.77 points of her two waves, she did not seem that confident. Unfortunately for Baum though,
it seemed as if she had saved her worst performance for the semifinals. Scoring an embarrassing 4.67 points, Baum had only herself to blame for her loss.
Sally Fitzgibbons and Sage Erickson will be fighting it out in the final of the 2011 ASP 6-Star Swatch Girls Pro France at Les Bourdaines, on Saturday, June 4.
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