The Australian leg of the 2021 Championship Tour is over as quickly as it begun, with four events having been crammed into less than two months of action. Margaret River was the only CT regular to make an appearance and served up quality waves as usual, while Newcastle, Narrabeen and Rottnest Island made their debuts …
The Margaret River Pro dished up some of the best waves of the season yet, with huge swells throughout the waiting period ensuring the only traditional event of the Australian leg of the Championship Tour more than delivered on expectations. There was an injury to John John Florence, an early exit for Gabriel Medina and …
Carissa Moore put in yet another solid performance at Margaret River while Tatiana Weston-Webb’s win catapulted her into a clear second in the standings, but something of a bottleneck has developed thereafter. Of course, with only the top five surfers earning a spot to the season-ending event at Trestles in a few months’ time, competition …
The Boost Mobile Margaret River Pro saw the best waves of the Australian leg of the 2021 WSL Tour to date and it was two Brazilians who came out victorious, shaking up their respective CT standings in the process. Let’s take a look at exactly what went down on both sides of the draw. Boost …
Margaret River dishes up some of the best waves on the Championship Tour, and has been the scene of many of the greatest rides in recent memory over the past few years. Who could forget Sebastian Zietz’s 10-pointer back in 2017, when he set up shop deeper than what appeared humanly possible inside a perfect …
Carissa Moore started the season like a house on fire, but at Narrabeen, she was knocked off her proverbial perch by arguably the most prodigiously talented young surfer in the world in Caroline Marks. Marks’ win propelled her into second-place in the Championship Tour standings, and she’ll be looking to close the gap on Moore even further at Margaret River – as will about ten or fifteen others. However, goofy-footers like Marks have typically struggled at this event, and the powerful styles of regular-footers like Moore and Tyler Wright will hold them in good stead over the next week or so.
With the two replacement events at Newcastle and Narrabeen now done and dusted, the Championship Tour returns to the familiar Margaret River for the fourth leg of the season. One of the most picturesque righthand point breaks on the planet, Margaret River has been a happy hunting ground for regular-footers in recent years, with the last five winners on both the men’s and women’s side of the tour surfing the wave frontside. This year, however, two of the favourites to take out the event will be surfing their backhand – can they buck the trend and get one back for the goofy-footers?
Just four days after the event window began, the Rip Curl Narrabeen Classic is already done and dusted and two new winners have been crowned. Let’s take a look at what went down on both the men’s and the women’s side of the draw. Rip Curl Narrabeen Classic – Women’s The early stages of the …
Heading into the Championship Tour restart, we had three clear favourites sitting ahead of the rest of the pack. After that event, it’s safe to say that one of those has separated herself into a league of her own. Carissa Moore was dominant in Newcastle, destroying everybody in her path to come away with an …
There is a clear top four in men’s surfing at the moment, and three of them filled the semi-final positions last week in Newcastle. That trio of Brazilians will again head the list of top hopes heading into the Rip Curl Narrabeen Classic this week, while John John Florence will be looking to bounce back …
As the sun set on the first Championship Tour event in four months, the two winners of the Newcastle Cup were also handed the yellow jerseys which represents their positions as the number one male and female surfers in the world.
With the World Surf League’s Championship Tour returning to our screens this week courtesy of the Newcastle Cup, surfing in Newcastle has received more attention than perhaps ever before. Typically in the surfing world, the town is mostly known for being the birthplace of Mark Richards, but there’s more to Newy than just that. Though …
The women’s side of the 2021 Newcastle Cup is headlined by three of the best to ever do it in Tyler Wright, Carissa Moore and Stephanie Gilmore, all of whom look set to challenge for another world title this year. But while each of them will be tough to beat, there are plenty capable of …
The return of the WSL Championship Tour is, at long last, upon us, four long months after the season-opening event went down at Pipeline. Typically the first event of the Australian leg would take place at Snapper Rocks, while given that it’s Easter next weekend it feels like it’s about time for the Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach, but neither of those venues w
Heading into the 2021 Championship Tour season, it’s the same old names getting most of our attention – names like Steph Gilmore, John John Florence, Tyler Wright, Gabriel Medina, Carissa Moore and Filipe Toledo, to name a few. But while those kind of names are likely to fill up a reasonable amount of the spots at the season-ending Trestles event, there are a handful of roughies who could easily cause a stir.
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