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Billabong Pro J-Bay line up complete
by George Mojo
13/07/2005:// Three South Africans and a Hawaiian have won the vacant wildcard places into the World Championship Tour Billabong Pro at Jeffrey's Bay.
Damien Fahrenfort and Sean Holmes won their respective heats for the home nation while Pacific islander Ian Walsh filled the last vacant slot in the Von Zipper trials.
Shaun Payne scraped through to the main event at the famed South African right-hand point break as the highest-scoring second placer.
Payne is rewarded with a first round proper match against current world champion Hawaiian Andy Irons.
Earlier, Fahrenfort dominated his four-man heat with his top score being an 8.33 - a wave on which he displayed a smooth yet aggressive repertoire of turns.
"I'm just stoked I got the two best waves out there," he said. "I tried these trials last year but I didn't do very well so I'm looking forward to going up against one of the top three. Imagine if just by some off chance they break their boards and I win. It would be amazing!"
Holmes, winner of heat two, was also very excited about going up against the more fancied rivals.
Although he left it to the last two minutes to score an 8.67 to win the heat, his flair was typical of that which had won him the trials event in previous years and when he brought down Irons in the 2003 event.
"I was on the back foot the whole way through that heat," said Holmes. "And then that one wave opened up for me and I got through. Now I'm just going out to surf against myself and enjoy it."
Walsh, who has a reputation for big-wave riding, was a little disappointed in his trials heat form despite winning heat three, but like the other wildcards he is eager to raise the bar in round one of the Billabong Pro and is in no way timid in the face of the task ahead.
"I just surfed a pretty bad heat so I'm going to have to step it up in the next one," said Walsh. "Everyone is surfing so good. I'm not really worried about going up against any of them. A draw is a draw… If you get the good waves you'll win."
Von Zipper Trials Results:
Heat one: 1. Damien Fahrenfort (SAF) 2. James Wood (AUS) 3. Dylan Stone (SAF) 4. Rudy Palmboom (SAF)
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