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Bobby Martinez Back In Form

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

After an equal 17th finish in the 1st contest of the year, local surfer Bobby Martinez is doing well in event #2 at Bells Beach on the ASP World Tour. He won his Round 1 heat vs. Luke Munro and Royden Bryson to advance to Round 3. In Round 3 he defeated Aussie Jay Thompson, and in Round 4 he defeated Frenchman Jeremy Flores. He then went on and defeated reigning world champion Mick Fanning in the Quarterfinals. He is slated to surf against Bede Durbidge in the Semi-Finals which should take place around 5:45pm Pacific Time today. Details and live streaming available on the Rip Curl site. Dane Reynolds also made the quarterfinals against Taj Burrow.

Some good quotables from Bobby yesterday:

Martinez caught three waves to Flores’ nine, but found enough points on his selective rides to advance 16.33 to 13.10 over the Frenchman. Flores finished equal 3rd in the first event of the year while Martinez was forced out at equal 17th.

“Sure, Jeremy having a good event at the Gold Coast motivated me, but I could have been in the 33rd Round and been motivated no matter who I got because I haven’t had a good year yet,” Martinez said. “I just want to try my best and get a good start. It don’t matter who I got or what round I’m in, I don’t think about the next person because we are all here for the same reason.”

Martinez will want to maintain that strategy as he has drawn Reigning World Champion Mick Fanning in the next round.

“It’s going to be a good one,” Fanning said of his match-up with Martinez. “Bobby has been surfing great and he looking really good on his feet so it’s going to be a fun one. I’m pumped.”

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