Filipe combines "barbaric turns" and "adult style" to become first surfer to beat Gabriel Medina in three years at Surf Ranch.
For the first time ever, a surfer other than Gabriel Medina has won the Surf Ranch Pro.
In identical three-foot waves, file number “CT3”, world number four Filipe Toledo beat the current tour leader Gabriel Medina, who won the event in 2018 and 2019. Toledo was runner-up in both those events.
Today, hoodoo broken.
Ain’t much to fault about Fizz at the tank, his turns barbaric, his style adult.
Medina needed a 9.28, on a left to win the event, but fell early, giving Toledo his second win of the season (after Margaret River) and pushing him into third on the rankings.
After two pretty tough days, once each wave had a little consequence behind it, ie make the semis, make the final, win the final, the event went from having the taint of insanity to a magnetism not seen all year.
Filipe thanked God and welcomed the return of his daddy, Ricardo, to his team.
“I’m so tired, I want to go home,” said Medina. “The judges made hard… especially with me… man, I just want to go home.”
Celebrations began as the temperature hovered at forty-one degrees celsius.
https://twitter.com/wsl/status/1406764660083232769
In the women, Reunion Island surfer Johanne Defay beat current world number one, the Hawaiian Carissa Moore, although fans were divided on the merit of the win.
Congratulations, @johannedefay winner of the Jeep Surf Ranch Pro pres. by Adobe.
Watch live, https://t.co/ie0ZfNdmHw. @Jeep @AdobeGenCreate pic.twitter.com/NL2WFKuC4r— World Surf League (@wsl) June 20, 2021
Analysis, by Steve “Longtom” Shearer coming shortly.
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Since this was another ‘soulless’
competition, does it even matter.
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This scores in the excellent range
Nice write , D!
Loved the ‘his turns barbaric, his style adult’ bit.
Excellent
Phip did smash it
Gawd, in less than a hour it’s going to morph into the greatest competition in history with a incredible finish no one saw coming .
His as bad as the woozle copy writers
If you’ll excuse my limited French, I thought it shat on Newcastle, Narrabeen, Margs and Rottnest.
Can’t we just pretend it never happened?
I’m so excited
Heat wave has me all hot and bothered