Nerves as Pro Maui Postponed Again

ASP World Tour surfers may not have been rewarded with a good enough swell for the Billabong Pro Maui in Honolua Bay, Hawaii, but the beautiful rainbow to the contest site made it worth it. Picture: ASP Kirstin © Covered Images.

Although a small pulse of swell is projected to push surf in the three-to-four foot (1 metre) range at Honolua Bay later today, event organizers at the Billabong Pro Maui have opted to postpone competition until tomorrow in hopes of a better swell on the horizon.

The final event of the 2007 ASP Women’s World Tour, the Billabong Pro Maui has only one full day of competition left to run in order to complete the event, and with the ASP Women’s World Title as well as the Vans Triple Crown Award on the line at Honolua Bay, event organizers have chosen to wait until more contestable conditions are on offer.

"We were hoping that the swell would fill in around mid-day today so we could run through the afternoon, but it doesn’t look like it will be arriving soon enough," Billabong Pro Maui Contest Director Dino Andino (USA) said. "Obviously there is a lot on the line with the ASP Women’s World Title as well as the Vans Triple Crown, so with only one full day left to run, we want to send the girls out in the best possible conditions. We’ll be back tomorrow morning at 7am."

The Billabong Pro Maui has completed the opening two rounds of competition so far, and remaining ASP Women’s World Title contenders Stephanie Gilmore (AUS), Sofia Mulanovich (PER) and Silvana Lima (BRA) have all shown they are hungry for the crown, convincingly advancing their way into Round 3.

In addition to the hunt for the ASP Women’s World Title, the Vans Triple Crown is coming to a close at Honolua Bay, with frontrunners Mulanovich and Megan Abubo (HAW) tied for the lead. Despite a horrific abdominal injurt sustained at Sunset Beach, Abubo rallied in her elimination Round 2 heat on Sunday to net the day’s high single wave score of a 9.25 out of a possible 10.