Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
The Billabong Pro Maui presented by Hawaiian Airlines at Monolua Bay, Maui is in its 10th year and will celebrate its anniversary next month on December 8-20. The crown jewel of surfing marks the final stop of the 2008 ASP Women’s Tour and the Triple Crown of Surfing. The worlds ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
The Billabong Pro Mundaka is expected to kick off today in Spain and Kelly Slater only needs to make it to the fourth round to secure his record ninth world title. It was only two years ago that Slater captured his eighth title at the very same venue after losing ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Round two of the Billabong Pro J-Bay went down today and there were a few exits of note as Joel Parkinson dispatched wildcard Mark Occhilupo and Aussie Mick Campbell knocked out Damien Hobgood. Andy Irons and Bobby Martinez also advanced into Round Three, with Martinez nabbing the second perfect 10.0 ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
The Billabong Pro J-Bay is underway in South Africa with the trials going into round one action. While nothing too exciting is expected to happen (after all, anyone knocked out in round one will get a second chance in round two), it looks as though there will be plenty ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Brazillian wildcard Bruno Santos defeated fellow wildcard Manoa Drollet in the finals of the Billabong Pro Tahiti today. Surfing stars such as CJ Hobgood, Taj Burrow, Kelly Slater and Joel Parkinson fell to one or the other with Parkinson losing to Drollet and Hobgood to Santos in the semi ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The day after defending world champ Mick Fanning was knocked out of the Billabong Pro Tahiti a slew of other top surfers were shown the exit as wildcards dominated the day.
Wildcard Manoa Drollet (above) knocked out Slater in Round three today while Taj Burrow fell to Brazilian Bruno Santos but ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
It's been two years since Mick Fanning was knocked out of an ASP World Tour contest in the second round and Tuesday it happened again... at the same place. In 2006 Fanning made an early exit in Tahiti and this year Brazilian wildcard Bruno Santos made his stay a short ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Damien Hobgood has officially withdrawn from the Billabong Pro Tahiti after breaking his shoulder last month. He had been hoping to be healed enough to make the event, but with it expected to kick off today, time ran out.
“I wanted to wait until the last minute to see if it ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
It doesn't look like there will be any action this weekend in Tahiti at the Billabong Pro. After a lay day was announced for today it appears conditions won't be good enough until early next week. There are seven days left in the holding period for the contest.
Once ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
The Billabong Pro Tahiti started its holding period today and due to less than optimum conditions a lay day was called.
"We had a good look at it and we are opting not to run today,” Contest Director Luke Egan said. “I watched it for an hour last night and if ...
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