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"\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.youtube.com\\/embed\\/4D_b-W7DzqA?enablejsapi=1\\\" width=\\\"640\\\" height=\\\"360\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\\/iframe&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Top Seeds Start Strong On Opening Day Of Hurley Pro At Trestles&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;LOWER TRESTLES, San Clemente, CA (Sunday, September 18, 2011) \\u2013 The opening day of the 2011 Hurley Pro at Trestles saw the world\\u2019s best surfers tear into high-performance two-to-three foot (1 metre) waves at the iconic pointbreak of Lower Trestles, and the event\\u2019s top seeds dominated against the new addition of ASP Dream Tour surfers brought on via the midyear rotation.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Stop No. 7 of 11 on the ASP Dream Tour, the Hurley Pro at Trestles has played a crucial role in determining the ASP World Champion over the past three years, with the event winner building momentum in to the back half of the year.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;figure id=\\\"attachment_1000138013\\\" style=\\\"width: 640px\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption aligncenter\\\"&gt;&lt;a rel=\\\"attachment wp-att-1000138013\\\" href=\\\"\\/1000138009\\/photos\\/hurley-pro-at-lower-trestles-day-1-photos-and-video-highlights\\/attachment\\/julian-wilson-2-2-2\\/\\\"&gt;&lt;img class=\\\"size-org wp-image-1000138013\\\" title=\\\"julian-wilson\\\" src=\\\"\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2011\\/09\\/julian-wilson.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"Hurley Pro at Lower Trestles day one standout Julian Wilson. Photo: jackenglish.com\\\" width=\\\"640\\\" height=\\\"426\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;figcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\"&gt;Hurley Pro at Lower Trestles day one standout Julian Wilson. Photo: jackenglish.com&lt;\\/figcaption&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Julian Wilson (AUS), 22 carried momentum from last week\\u2019s equal 3rd place finish in New York and dismantled both the lefts and rights at Lower Trestles to earn both the day\\u2019s highest single-wave score of 8.93 (out of 10) as well as the event\\u2019s highest heat-total of 17.60 (out of 20). \\u201cThis is my first World Tour event at Trestles and I\\u2019ve been looking forward to this my whole life,\\u201d Wilson said. \\u201cThose three-man heats, you want to get busy at the start because you can\\u2019t sit where you want to sit. You end up just scratching and that\\u2019s what happened in my heat. It\\u2019s a different strategy, kind of a dog fight, and you\\u2019ve got to make due with what you get.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Michel Bourez (PYF), 25, rebounded after an equal 25th place finish in New York and opened up today with rail-to-rail power surfing and finished with a clean reverse on his opening ride at Lowers, earning an 8.50 (out of 10) for the effort and commanded the heat throughout its entirety. \\u201cI feel great and my board works well,\\u201d Bourez said. \\u201cIt felt like a long wait to get that win but it came through,\\u201d Bourez said. \\u201cI\\u2019ve been working a lot with my shaper over the last few years and it\\u2019s going well. In the last event I lost pretty quickly and I\\u2019m happy to get that first round win today.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Jeremy Flores (FRA), 23, dominated the Lower Trestles right-handers this morning, unloading a furious combination of tail-drifting turns and gouges to take a powerful Round 1 victory over dangerous new ASP World Tour addition John Florence (HAW), 18, and Brazilian Heitor Alves (BRA), 29. \\u201cI was so excited in my first event on tour, I was the same age as John John (Florence) and I\\u2019m sure he\\u2019ll beat me a few times out here for sure,\\u201d Flores said. \\u201cThat 8 was my first wave in the heat and it was kind of fun. There was a little wind on the wave and I could kind of release my tail. My board is going good and I was just trying to fit my turns in. I\\u2019m happy.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Owen Wright (AUS), 21, current No. 2 on the ASP World Title Rankings, took an impressive come-from-behind victory on his last wave with a series of air reverses and forehand wraps to overtake dangerous local talent Patrick Gudauskas (USA), 25, and Hurley Pro Trialist Conner Coffin (USA), 17, in the dying minutes of his heat. \\u201cI had a bit of a battle out there,\\u201d Wright said. \\u201cI\\u2019m pretty happy to have made it through this first round because I haven\\u2019t won a Round 1 heat in awhile. I really had nothing going on for me coming into the last five minutes and that wave really didn\\u2019t offer much at all and I just had to milk it as much as I could. I just caught the score so I\\u2019m pretty wrapped.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Wright, who earned his maiden ASP World Title event victory last week in New York, is in dangerous form in the hunt for the 2011 ASP World Title and has now changed his focus to Lower Trestles after taking time to enjoy his Inaugural win on the East Coast. \\u201cWinning in New York was amazing,\\u201d Wright said. \\u201cI\\u2019ve been working really hard to get a good result and it felt good to really got one. I just lapped it up and enjoyed the moment and now I\\u2019m here this week and feeling fully recovered from New York and I\\u2019m ready to go.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;figure id=\\\"attachment_1000138012\\\" style=\\\"width: 640px\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption aligncenter\\\"&gt;&lt;a rel=\\\"attachment wp-att-1000138012\\\" href=\\\"\\/1000138009\\/photos\\/hurley-pro-at-lower-trestles-day-1-photos-and-video-highlights\\/attachment\\/kelly-slater3-2-2\\/\\\"&gt;&lt;img class=\\\"size-org wp-image-1000138012\\\" title=\\\"kelly-slater3\\\" src=\\\"\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2011\\/09\\/kelly-slater3.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"Kelly Slater. Photo: jackenglish.com\\\" width=\\\"640\\\" height=\\\"426\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;figcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\"&gt;Kelly Slater. Photo: jackenglish.com&lt;\\/figcaption&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Kelly Slater (USA), 39, reigning four-time Hurley Pro Trestles Champion and current leader on the ASP World Title Race, took out his Round 1 heat with last-minute heroics to overtake former ASP Dream Tour veteran Rob Machado (USA), 37, and passionate Hawaiian Fred Patacchia (HAW), 29. \\u201cRob had the biggest wave in that heat and he was way inside and I just let him go where he wanted,\\u201d Slater said. \\u201cHe was looking left and started to go right and the left was good, but I was out of position and didn\\u2019t get it. That last set came in at the end and Rob said he was going to go right and that wave cleaned it up and I got the one behind it. It feels good to get the win. I was frustrated. I haven\\u2019t surfed since New York and was lucky to get the win.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Adriano de Souza (BRA), 24, who has recently relocated to Southern California, looked at home in the Lower Trestles lineup and locked in to two righthand set-waves and combined an impressive repertoire of forehand maneuvers to relegate ASP Dream Tour rookie Gabriel Medina (BRA), 17, and progressive standout Dusty Payne (HAW), 22, to Round 2. \\u201cI\\u2019m happy, it\\u2019s kind of high tide, but I\\u2019m really happy with my performance,\\u201d De Souza said. \\u201cRound 1 isn\\u2019t important and I\\u2019m really happy to surf with Gabriel (Medina). He\\u2019s amazing in conditions like this. I just enjoyed myself and hopefully I can keep going in Round 3. We just had fun out there. Round 1 is no-losers and we\\u2019ve just started the journey. We just had a good battle out there and I hope Gabriel does well, he\\u2019s a Brazilian and we all pull for each other.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Hurley Pro at Trestles event organizers will regroup tomorrow morning at 7am local time to assess conditions for a possible 8am start.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;The Hurley Pro at Trestles is webcast LIVE via &lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.hurley.com\\/hurleypro\\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;hurley.com\\/hurleypro&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;For additional information log on to &lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.aspworldtour.com\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;www.aspworldtour.com&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HURLEY PRO TRESTLES ROUND 1 RESULTS:&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nHeat 1: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 11.96, Travis Logie (ZAF) 11.53, Jadson Andre (BRA) 11.00&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nHeat 2: Jeremy Flores (FRA) 15.43, Heitor Alves (BRA) 14.13, John Florence (HAW) 9.43&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nHeat 3: Taj Burrow (AUS) 13.66, Adam Melling (AUS) 12.36, Chris Davidson (AUS) 9.80&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nHeat 4: Owen Wright (AUS) 13.60, Patrick Gudauskas (USA) 13.37, Conner Coffin (USA) 11.87&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nHeat 5: Kelly Slater (USA) 14.57, Rob Machado (USA) 13.50, Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) 12.40&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nHeat 6: Matt Wilkinson (AUS) 13.67, Adrian Buchan (AUS) 13.10, Tiago Pires (PRT) 12.13&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nHeat 7: Taylor Knox (USA) 13.70, Raoni Monteiro (BRA) 13.50, Bede Durbidge (AUS) 10.80&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nHeat 8: Michel Bourez (PYF) 15.40, Kieren Perrow (AUS) 11.50, Kai Otton (AUS) 9.83&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nHeat 9: Adriano de Souza (BRA) 15.17, Gabriel Medina (BRA) 14.87, Dusty Payne (HAW) 8.77&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nHeat 10: Julian Wilson (AUS) 17.60, Miguel Pupo (BRA) 13.33, Alejo Muniz (BRA) 12.53&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nHeat 11: Josh Kerr (AUS) 13.00, Damien Hobgood (USA) 9.90, Daniel Ross (AUS) 6.75&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nHeat 12: Brett Simpson (USA) 12.40, Tom Whitaker (AUS) 11.94, Mick Fanning (AUS) 11.90&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hurley Pro at Trestles&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nASP World Title Event No. 7 of 11&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nLower Trestles, California USA&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nSeptember 18 \\u2013 24, 2011&lt;\\/em&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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