GERROA’S Sally Fitzgibbons and Holly Wawn booked their spot in the semi-finals on the women’s side of the draw after comfortably reaching round five of the main draw at the UR ISA World Surfing Games.
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Wawn had to work hard to earn her second place in round five though, just getting the score she needed on the hooter.
She joins Aussie team captain Sally Fitzgibbons, South African Bianca Buitendag and New Zealand’s Paige Hareb in the final four who await winners of the repechage in the semis.
Fitzgibbons, who is captain of Team Australia, remains unbeaten in the competition and firms as one of the favourites to take the gold medal.
After being relegated to the repechage rounds, Phillipa Anderson stepped her surfing up a gear to advance through to repechage seven and stay in contention to make the women’s final.
Dextar Muskens had his run of good results come to an end in repechage six on the men’s side of the draw, going down to red-hot South African Adin Masencamp, Mexico’s Jhony Corzo and Indonesian star Rio Waida.
