Paige Hareb downs Laura Enever to qualify for the Dow AgroSciences Pro Quarter-finals
New Zealand’s Paige Hareb got the better of Australia’s Laura Enever in the first Quarter-final of the Dow AgroSciences Pro, the blue ribbon event of the TSB Bank NZ Surf Festival, which continued at the Fitzroy Beach in Taranaki, New Zealand, on Saturday,
April 14.
The success over Enever in the first Quarter-final served to take Hareb into the Semi-final while removing the latter from the contention for the event title.
The third stop of the 2012 Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Women’s World Title Series had turned out to be intense with plenty of surprises and upsets. The world’s best female surfers were determined to get their hands on the coveted ASP Women’s
World Tour rating points in order to get into a position from where they could pose a serious threat to the most prestigious award in the sport.
The conditions prevailing at the primary event site on Saturday had turned out to be pretty decent, enabling the event organisers to safely move the event to its conclusion in clean three foot waves.
After doing quite well to survive their heats during the initial rounds of the competition, Hareb and Enever entered the Quarter-finals to face each other in a battle for the Semi-final slot. Both the girls had been exhibiting a promising form and were expected
to push each other real hard in order to walk away with the win.
As the first Quarter-final got underway, Enever was the first one to draw blood by locking a wave to post a 4.83 on the score-board. The start hardly served to fill her up with confidence, but she still held her own and kept pushing hard to add an additional
7.33 points to her account to finish with a two-wave total of 12.16 points.
Hareb, on the other hand, went hard at her opponent right from the start. Detecting a juicy wave coming her way in the opening minutes of the heat, she charged towards it to unload a series of exquisite tricks and ended up posting an 8.83 on the score-board.
Scoring a 5.50 off her second business-wave, she finished with a heat-total of 14.33 points. The score held up until the end to seal the fate of the Quarter-final in her favour and thus carried her through into the Semi-final.
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