by Greg
10. July 2010 02:28
The good news is that a South African will be crowned the champion of the Mr. Price Pro Ballito tomorrow after the last international Surfer left in the event, Australia’s Chris Davidson, was eliminated in the round of 16 by South African Warwick Wright. Wright then came up against event favorite, Jordy Smith in the first quarter final before the contest was called off due to deteriorating conditions. Wright was nowhere in the heat against Smith and you could see he had the big Party he has planned for tonight in Cape Town on his mind, Avatar@Chevelle, and did not want to miss out? If you don’t want the Mr. Price Pro Title, you aint gonna get it! Then more drama unfolded as Frankie O had to forfeit his heat due to food poisoning… how does an experienced fisherman like Frankie who will eat off the Rocks get food poisoning? His stomach should be rougher than a dirty dishrag! This was bad luck for Frank and we wish him a speedy recovery!
I really enjoyed Dave Weare and Royden Bryson’s heat today, both surfers had great heats and you could see their experience come through in a seesaw battle eventually won by a patient Bryson who waited for the biggest wave of the heat, did 2 massive cracks and scored a 9 point ride!
There are some awesome matchups tomorrow, watch out for the heat between Casey Grant and Travis Logie, the second heat of the morning, 2 very different surfers and both have been on form the entire contest. Prediction for tomorrows finalists, a tough one, but I recon it will be 2 of the following 4: Jordy Smith, Royden Bryson, Travis Logie and Casey Grant are the inform surfers. If Roy beats Dooma in the 2nd quarter he will come up against Jordy in the semi and who ever wins out of Travis and Casey will go all the way to the final, use it don’t use it. One thing for sure is there will be some awesome surfing and I have already got my daypack ready to camp out and watch all the action.
See you down at the Mr. Price Pro Ballito for a 7:30 at Surfers Point.
Greg Emslie