| The Rip Curl Pro Search kicks off at Molhe Leste |
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| Thursday, 22 October 2009 08:50 |
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Round 1 of the Rip Curl Pro Search is set to commence this morning at 9:30am, with surfers doing battle in the wedging two-to-three foot (1 metre) waves on offer at the backup site of Molhe Leste. Event No. 9 of 10 on the 2009 ASP World Tour, the Rip Curl Pro Search has endured three, consecutive lay days, and monstrous surf and storms that destroyed the event structure at the primary site of Supertubos, before reaching this morning’s clean conditions at Mohle Leste (in the northern corner of the Supertubos beach). “We’ll be getting underway this morning at 9:30am at Molhe Leste,” Damien Hardman, Rip Curl Pro Search Contest Director, said. “We’re expecting conditions to improve throughout the day and are looking to run all of Round 1.” The Rip Curl Pro Search event has elected to activate the new competition format, featuring elimination, man-on-man heats from the outset. Up first this morning will be Tim Boal (FRA), 26, against Jihad Khodr (BRA), 25, in the opening heat of the Rip Curl Pro Search event. Surfline, official foreers for the 2009 Rip Curl Pro Search, are calling the current Northwest swell to maintain throughout the next couple of days before a WNW swell fills in for the weekend. The Rip Curl Pro Search will be web LIVE via www.live.ripcurl.com Rip Curl Pro Search online media center is available at http://www.box.net/shared/o3avphdb6z The Rip Curl Pro Search is partnered regionally by RTP, Eurosport, Fuel TV and ESPN Brazil, who will all be broading live from Peniche throughout the event. For more information on these live television broads, please visit www.live.ripcurl.com For more information, log onto www.aspworldtour.com
RIP CURL PRO SEARCH ROUND 2 MATCH-UPS:
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