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Having repeatedly claimed his penchant for the Tahitian contest, it would be hard to believe that Jeremy Flores can be satisfied with a fifth round finish. Moreover, given his start in the contest, symbolized by his round two heat where the Frenchman approached perfection: a perfect 10 for a long and deep backside barrel before taking the right of event to collect a 9.33. After that, it’s hard to imagine he would miss the final phases. However, that doesn’t take into account Mick Fanning. Almost absent for three-quarters of his fifth round heat, the Australian managed to slip away from Flores in the final minutes of their match-up for the barrel of the qualification. End of story for Flores and one less place in the rankings (now 15th).
Surfagram co-founder Nykola Duma.
Journalist Vincent Martin.
Not included in the Top 34 analysis: Owen Wright (AUS), Tiago Pires (PRT), Dusty Payne (HAW) and Glenn Hall (IRL) who was wounded and missing in Teahupoo, Raoni Monteiro (BRA) who was unable to finance his trip to Tahiti lacking sponsors. Their replacements were Yadin Nicol (AUS), Pat Gudauskas (USA), Jocelyn Poulou (PYF), Nathan Hedge (AUS) and Ian Walsh (HAW) and the two wildcards from the trials: Alain Riou (PYF) and Anthony Walsh (AUS).
Editor’s Note: This article is a collaborative work between Vincent Martin and the Surfagram team (Nykola Duma & Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot). Vincent is a journalist and runs the popular French surf website Planète Surf. Nykola is a graphic designer and art director and Pierre-Arnaud is a software engineer. Together, they created Surfagram–a fun and visual way to look at ASP World Tour results and statistics on contests and surfers.