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Y se hizo historia: Kelly Slater conquistó su décimo título mundial
(english below)

Kelly Slater in Puerto Rico - photo: Steve Sherman
Kelly Slater in Puerto Rico - photo: Steve Sherman

  • Además de ganar el décimo título, ganó la fecha en Puerto y suma cuatro victorias este año.
  • Slater mete la combinación (18.87) y la ola más alta del evento (10.00).

CARLOS ENRIQUE BRENES

Tras un contundente juego en las olas de Porta del Sol en Puerto Rico, el estadunidense Kelly Slater creó el momento más grande del surfing den el orbe al ganar su título mundial número 10, después de clasificarse a las semifinales del evento y obtener  los puntos suficientes para reclamar un campeonato que venía abrazando desde la fecha anterior.

Slater  de 38 años, necesitaba solamente avanzar la serie en cuartos de final contra el brasileño Adriano de Souza, y con el mejor surfing de tuberías que ese evento vivió, combinó lo más alto del la fecha con 18.87 en una  serie que mató en los primeros 5 minutos, para luego salir alzado en hombros, consagrarse como el hombre del año y de todos los tiempos en materia de surf.

 

“Honestamente me siento aliviado. Ha sido el título más estresante que he tenido, porque es un lugar desconocido y ya sabes a la gente a mi edad les dicen: “usted no debería estar haciendo esto”. Todos los chicos jóvenes están cada vez mejor y es un reto creer en ti mismo y no creer lo que otras personas dicen. Yo sé lo bueno que es Jordy, Dane, Mick, Taj y todos los demás chicos,  es un Tour ¿sabes? No es una ola, no es una maniobra, no es un torneo, es una cosa de un año de duración, me enfoqué  y por eso estoy aliviado”, dijo Slater.

Sin embargo, no cansado de darle a sus fans las mayores alegrías con este título, Slater escaló hasta la final del evento y cerró con un surfing simplemente inalcanzable, ayudado  eso sí por el apoyo total de las 10.000 personas que coreaban el nombre del rey del surf mundial.

Kelly venció al australiano Bede Durbidge con la segunda combinación más alta del torneo (la primera fue suya también) de 18.77 que sumó con un 10.00 perfecto tras sacar sus mayores armas de maniobraje y un 8.77 para terminar de liquidar a un Durbidge que no conoce la victoria aun frente a Slater.

De esta manera, Kelly volvió a salir alzado en hombros para una segunda celebración, lograr su cuarta victoria en seis finales este año,  de nueve fechas corridas hasta ahora y con posibilidad de lograr una más en Hawai en diciembre próximo. Con este sumó su evento número 45 ganado en su carrera, adentro del Tour de la ASP.

La historia del deporte norteamericano se ha encargado de situar a Kelly Slater entre verdaderos íconos como Mohamed Alí, Michael Jordan, Lance Armstrong y Tiger Woods, ahora bien repasemos el palmarés de cada uno de estos atletas, incluido Slater:


MOHAMED ALÍ: 3 veces campeón mundial
MICHAEL JORDAN: 6 veces campeón de la NBA
LANCE ARMSTRONG: 7 veces ganador del Tour de France
TIGER WOODS: 14 majors ganados
KELLY SLATER: 10 veces campeón mundial

Este título Slater lo quiso dedicar al mayor rival de su carrera, Andy Irons, tres veces campeón mundial, quien lamentablemente murió debido a una fiebre hemorrágica de dengue hace una semana. Ahora Slater y todos los corredores del tour se dirigen a la casa de Irons, en Hawai, para cerrar la temporada en la ola más famosa del mundo: Pipeline, en el North Shore.     

De esta manera Slater, previo a la última fecha del tour, cierra en el primer lugar de la tabla con 62.250 puntos acumulados y 389.000 dólares ganados en la temporada.

La siguiente fecha del Tour se realizará del 8 al 20 de diciembre próximo en el conocido Banzai Pipeline que Slater se ha dejado en repetidas ocasiones, debido a una de sus mejores virtudes, las tuberías.

DESARROLLO DE SLATER EN PUERTO RICO

Ronda 1

Kelly Slater (EE.UU)        16.27

Daniel Ross (AUS)           13.40

Dillon Perillo (EE.UU)     11.80

Ronda 3 (clasificado por victoria en la 1)

Kelly Slater                         14.50

Dylan Graves (PRI)         13.07

Ronda 5 (clasificado por victoria en la 3)

Kelly Slater                         13.20

Adriano de Souza (BRA)11.42

Jeremy Flores (FRA)      9.60

Cuartos de final ó ronda 6

Kelly Slater                         18.87

Adriano de Souza            14.36

Semifinal

Kelly Slater                         16.34

Taj Burrow (AUS)            14.87

Final

Kelly Slater                         18.77

Bede Durbidge (AUS)    14.43

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Kelly Slater Claims Rip Curl Pro Search Puerto Rico, 2010 ASP World Title

Porta Del Sol, Puerto Rico -- (11/6/10) Kelly Slater (USA), 38, newly-crowned 10-time ASP World Champion, has claimed his 45th elite tour event, taking down the Rip Curl Pro Search Puerto Rico over Bede Durbidge (AUS), 27, in pumping three-to-four foot (1.5 metre) waves in Porta Del Sol.

Event No. 9 of 10 on the 2010 ASP World Tour, the Rip Curl Pro Search Puerto Rico has been an event of extremes. Last Tuesday, the international sporting world was dealt a devastating blow with the tragic and unexpected loss of former three-time ASP World Champion and current ASP World Tour competitor Andy Irons (HAW), 32.

After a somber two-day postponement of the event out of respect for Irons’s passing, the world’s best surfers roared back to life for two of the most high-performance days in surfing history. Today, Slater clinched his historic and unprecedented 10th ASP World Title before going on to take out the Rip Curl Pro Search Puerto Rico, as comprehensive and dominant a performance as the sporting world has ever bore witness to.

“This is the only event close to my home and I spent a lot of time in Puerto Rico when I was a kid,” Slater said. “I used to surf a lot of contests at Jobos and Wilderness, so this was kind of like a homecoming for me. A lot of my friends here I’ve known for 25 years and to surf with Dylan (Graves), I used to surf with his father in Florida when I was a kid.

It was a special time. To be close to Florida and to win the 10th and get that wave (the Perfect 10) in the Final, there is nothing else I could add to it.” Slater, who would go on to post an incredible 18.77 out of a possible 20 in the Final, secured the event’s second Perfect 10, exhibiting a masterful display of diversity and control in the rippable afternoon conditions.

“The wave that did it for me was that first one in the Quarterfinals against Adriano (de Souza),” Slater said. “That was the heat I needed to win to get the Title, and after that first wave, I felt this wave of relief. I still had to win the heat, but I was so relaxed and everything just started going my way. I was in the best possible headspace I could have been in for the rest of the day. This is a dream.”

Bede Durbidge (AUS), 27, missed the last ASP Dream Tour stop in Portugal to attend the birth of his first daughter, Willow, and today’s Runner-Up finish is a fitting return to form for the big natural-footer.

“I felt good going into the Final and like I was building momentum all the way through but Kelly (Slater) stopped me with that 10,” Durbidge said. “It’s still a fantastic way to come back though. I missed the last stop in Portugal to be there for the birth of my daughter, Willow, and I can’t wait to get home to her and my wife. I miss them both. We were all surfing for Andy (Irons) this week and everyone surfed amazing.”

Durbidge moves from ASP World No. 8 to ASP World No. 6 heading into the final stop in Hawaii.

Michel Bourez (PYF), 24, dispatched lethal rookie Owen Wright (AUS), 20, and current ASP World No. 2 Jordy Smith (ZAF), 22, this morning with his patented blend of non-compromising, power surfing. Although unable to overtake Durbidge in the Semifinals, today marks the best result for Bourez.

“Disappointed but very happy with my result,” Bourez said. “It’s my best result of my career. It’s been an emotional week. I don’t think Andy (Irons) has been far from anyone’s minds at all. It’s so sad, but I think we all surfed for him and everyone was ripping the past two days.”

Bourez’s Equal 3rd at the Rip Curl Pro Search Puerto Rico moves the Tahitian from 10th to 9th on the ASP World Title Race rankings.

Taj Burrow (AUS), 32, was in sensational form in his Quarterfinal bout against Dane Reynolds (USA), 25, opening up with the first Perfect 10 of the event for one of the deepest barrels ever seen in Porta Del Sol through which he exited and proceeded detonate three solid turns before finishing.

“The wave was crazy,” Burrow said. “It came right and the start of the heat and as I pulled under the lip, the whole thing just engulfed me. I couldn’t see anything and then I felt myself push over the foam ball and come out. When I came out, the wave still had a really nice wall on it so I was able to click in a few turns. When you draw someone like Dane (Reynolds) you have to go full throttle the whole time.”

Burrow was unable to bypass Slater in the Semifinals, and will now focus his attentions on Hawaii.

Highlights from Rip Curl Pro Search Puerto Rico will be available via live.ripcurl.com. The next stop on the 2010 ASP World Tour will be the Billabong Pipeline Masters from December 8 – 20, 2010. For more information, log onto aspworldtour.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

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