GLOBE WCT FIJI TRIALS RUN & WON

Florida’s Pete Mendia scored the first perfect 10 of the Globe WCT Fiji when he won the Trials for the event this morning in a building, clean 5 to 6 foot Cloudbreak swell.

“I only got the word from Globe that I was in the trials a few days ago and I’m just stoked to be here. To then get a 10 is just amazing,” Pete said.

”For my first wave this morning, I pulled an 8.7 and it just felt right.

“About four minutes to go in my heat, a wave just stood up with a great wall and I just hit it.

“I almost pulled out of the wave half way through but just kept driving through the barrel and I hoped I’d got a 9, but to score a 10 is just sick.”

Joining Pete in the main event, after coming second in the trials, Bronte’s (NSW) Luke Hitchings scored two excellent rides and only narrowly beating Portland’s (Victoria) Adam Robertson by less than a point.

Featuring the best 48 surfers in the world, the Globe WCT Fiji will be webcast live via www.globe.tv and www.aspworldtour.com each day with multiple camera angles including water and aerial shots, highlights and replays, weather and scoring information, direct viewer interaction, celebrity guests, interviews and more are all part of the daily webcast program. Also check out the daily wrap program at 8.30 pm Fijian time and repeating during the night.

Globe and the Association of Surfing Professionals will be supplying full media services for TV via international satellite news feeds, print, radio and webcast purposes during the event. For further information during the event, or leading up to it, please contact the media team for individual media requests. Daily press releases will be available via e-mail or at GlobeFiji.com and ASPWorldTour.com

Stay tuned for a complete wrap-up of Day 1 of the Main event on SURFINGTHEMAG.COM

'05 GLOBE WCT FIJI: TAVARUA PHOTO GALLERY Photos from the 2005 WCT event # 4 of 12, held at Tavarua, Fiji May 22nd - June 4th, 2005		'05 GLOBE WCT FIJI: Round 1: Irons and Slater dominate Day 1 of the Globe WCT Fiji saw many of the top seeds advance directly to Round 3. Kelly Slater and Andy Irons were just 2 who put on dominating performances		'05 BILLABONG PRO TEAHUPOO PHOTO GALLERY Photos from the 2005 WCT event # 3 of 12, held at Teahupo'o, Tahiti May 5th - 17th, 2005

 

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