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Slowly but surely, Jordy Smith sees the gap amongst the top seeds of the World Tour grow (Slater is now more than 9000 points away). Defeated in round five by the eventual champion, the South African had hinted at real progress in the Tahitian barrels. Things were not that easy for Jordy, especially against wildcard Nathan Hedge who left him no respite in the third round (17.70 to 17.90). But, along came Buchan and Jordy was gone, accumulating bad choices under pressure. If he wants to wear his first world title crown at the end of the year, he can no longer afford to make a mistake.
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.