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History repeats itself for Josh Kerr. Impressive up to the semifinals in Bali, the Australian had then completely lost his surfing, only scoring an uninspired wave. In Tahiti, Kerrzy reproduced almost the same pattern. Hesitant at the beginning, he improved throughout the heats (18.53 in round three) before putting on a show in the fourth round to send Smith and Flores in round five. He was stopped in the quarterfinals against Fanning and one and only worthy barrel scored (6.43) with a weak total of 7.06. Good, but there's room for more. Same thing in the rankings where he climbs to seventh place (+2).
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.