3 October 2011, Kuta-Bali: Lakey Peterson’s misfortune was Dyah Rayahu Dewi’s fortune today, as the lucky Balinese girl was called in to replace Lakey in the 4th heat of Round 1 today as the Oaklely World Pro Junior competition kicked off at Canggu Beach in Bali.
The 17 year old from Seminyak was at school earlier this morning around 9:30 am when she received a phone call from her surf team manager, telling her that there was a spot open at the contest as one of the competitors had an injury and couldn’t surf. “I was sitting at my desk and saw I had a call from Yudha (her surf team manager) and so I picked up. I was surprised and excited by the news, so the first thing I did was to tell my teacher I had a fever and had to go home,” she said with a grin.
“But I really did go home,” Dyah continued. “I went home as fast as I could, grabbed my board and gear and drove straight to Canggu. There is no way I was going to pass up a chance to come here and surf with the best girls in the world!”
As she readied for her heat she was visibly nervous as she watched the girls already in the water, but smiled and listened to some advice from Coca-Cola ISC CEO Tipi Jabrik as he gave her some tips on positioning and words of support. Just before running down to the beach she said, “These girls are all so good that it’s hard to be very confident, but I’m excited just to be here and will go out and do my best.”
The conditions seemed to be the biggest challenge for all three of the girls during the heat, with big wide sets closing out the break with regularity, and only the infrequent medium sized waves providing and real scoring opportunities. Dyah only caught one wave during her 30-minute heat and so ended up in 3rd place, but the good news is that tomorrow she’ll have another chance in Round 2 and intends to put on a much better performance.
“It was really hard out there,” she said. “I feel like I spent most of the heat paddling around. I hope tomorrow the waves are a lot better, because I know I can do better than I did today!”
Round 1 got started at just after 10 am, with a rising tide and some glassy 3-4 foot sets rolling into both the Sandbar and the Rivermouth Right. The under 20 year old girls from all over the world proceeded to put on a great show to open up the competition, including Hawaii's Coco Ho, who handily won her first round heat to advance directly to Round 3.
Contest Director Beau Emerton made the call to stop competition today after Round One of the Women’s competition was completed, and requested that the competitors be back at Canggu Beach tomorrow at 9 pm to assess the conditions with the plan to continue with Rounds 2 and 3.
Stay tuned for more exciting action as the competition heats up!
About the Oakley World Pro Junior 2011
With a holding period of Oct. 3-14, the event will see the best of the best juniors in a field of 48 men and 18 women compete. Six men each, 20 years and under, will represent ASP Australasia, ASP South America, ASP North America and ASP Europe, five each from ASP Africa, ASP Hawaii and ASPJapan, as well as nine wildcards to round out the prestigious field. Two women each will represent each region.
Wildcards for the event were also recently named and include: Brazil’s Peterson Crisanto, Italo Ferreira and CaioIbelli, Australia’s Noa Deane, Dean Bowen and Felicity Palmateer, New Zealand’s Sarah Mason,Tahiti’sMateiaHiquily and KealaNaihe. Two additional Indonesian wild cards earned tickets into the main event after a local trial: Ida BagusSimarai and DarmaputraTonjo.
The complete list of competitors, as well as additional information and a live webcast can be found at oakleyprojunior.com. Follow on Twitter @OakleyAction or tweets at #OakleyProJr
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