Sally Fitzbiggons predicts Steph Gilmore to fire up

The ASP Top 17 will spring back into action this weekend for the opening ASP event, the Roxy Pro Gold Coast presented by Land Rover.

Boasting a waiting period of February 26 through March 9, 2011, the Roxy Pro Gold Coast will feature the world’s best female surfers as they start their respective campaigns for the 2011 ASP Women’s World Title.

World No. 2 Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS), is keen to get back into the competition singlet following an off-season spent traipsing up and down the Eastern seaboard of Australia.

A fit and focused Fitzgibbons said she is out to better last year’s quarterfinal result at the Gold Coast event.

The twenty year-old added that she expects four-time world champion STEPHANIE GILMORE (AUS) to come out firing at her local break.

Gilmore has obviously not enjoyed the lead-in she would have liked, due to an assault in late December, that has kept the defending Roxy Pro champion ‘out of the water’ with a fractured wrist.

Running in conjunction with the women’s event will be the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast presented by Land Rover, the opening event in the ASP World Title season.

The Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast will run from February 26 through March 9, 2011 and will be webcast LIVE via http://www.quiksilverpro.com and broadcast LIVE on free to air TV ONE HD or on our own Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast Live Stream.

ROXY PRO GOLD COAST ROUND 1

• Heat 1:Sofia Mulanovich (PER), Paige Hareb (NZL), Jacqueline Silva (BRA)
• Heat 2: Silvana Lima (BRA), Rebecca Woods (AUS), Pauline Ado (FRA)
• Heat 3: Stephanie Gilmore (AUS), Tyler Wright (AUS), TBA
• Heat 4: Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS), Laura Enever (AUS), Claire Bevilacqua (AUS)
• Heat 5: Carissa Moore (HAW), Jessi Miley-Dyer (AUS), Alana Blanchard (HAW)
• Heat 6: Chelsea Hedges (AUS), Coco Ho (HAW), Courtney Conlogue (USA)

This was a press release provided to SurferM.ag. For more information, log onto www.aspworldtour.com

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