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Pro surfer Sofia Mulanovich loves Huntington Beach. She first competed here as a young teen and won the U.S. Open of Surfing in 2006. Even so, Huntington is more than a contest location to Sofia. “It’s a really fun wave,” she explains. �...

Medi Veminardi (REU) and Alizee Arnaud (Hossegor, FRA) respectively won the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Grade-2 Men’s and Grade-1 Women’s Pro Junior events today at Sopelana in the Basque Counrty, ending victorious after a four-...

Marlon Lipke (DEU), 23, the only touring German surfer among the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS), secured the best European result in the ASP WQS 6-Star Yumeya Billabong Pro Tahara after losing to Brazilian...

Bruce Irons (HAW) has defeated fellow finalist Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) to claim the 2008 Rip Curl Pro Search in rifling four-foot (1.5 metre) lefthanders ‘somewhere’ in Indonesia. Stop No. 6 of 11 on the 2008 ASP World Tour, the Rip ...

Day 3 of the ASP Grade-2 Men’s and Grade-1 Women’s event brought another spectacular show at Sopelana in the Basque Country today, and tomorrow’s finals will feature the Nikita Women’s Pro Junior final and the Island Style Men’s Pro Juni...

Tiago Pires (Ericeira, PRT), who was the first ASP Top 45 member to defeat 8X ASP World Champion and current ratings' leader Kelly Slater (Floida, USA) in Round 3, secured his bet result ever on an ASP World Tour event finishing equal 3rd in the R...

Day 2 of the Island Style Pro Junior saw the French contingent strike hard today and see almost all of its representatives secure a birth into tomorrow’s top seeded surfers’ round. Both men and women divisions ran today and the event will move...

Round 3 of the Rip Curl Pro Search, stop No. 6 on the 2008 ASP World Tour, will hit the water at 7:15am this morning at the primary venue ‘somewhere’ in Indonesia. “The surf is clean and about four foot (1.5 metre) this morning and we’l...

Jacqueline Silva (Florianopolis, BRA), 29, clinched the ASP World Qualifying Series (WQS) Women’s 6-Star Billabong Girls Cascais Festival in solid five to six foot (1.5 to 2 meter) waves at Guincho Beach in Portugal today. Silva, who defeated ...

After assessing conditions throughout the day, event organizers at the Rip Curl Pro Search have called the remaining six heats of Round 2 on this afternoon, starting at 2pm at the primary venue, “somewhere” in Indonesia. Event No. 6 on...