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04/01/2008:// Former world junior champion Adriano de Souza is stamping his mark at the Billabong World Junior Surfing Championships in Australia.
The Brazilian dominated his round two heat at Sydney's North Narrabeen Beach recording the highest scoring heat.
De Souza's intimate knowledge of the ASP World Tour format earned him 14 points out of a possible twenty to book a round three spot.
De Souza's return to North Narrabeen for the fourth consecutive year is indicative of the calibre of surfer the event attracts.
"It's good to see all the guys ripping, they smoked me in the first round," said De Souza.
"I'm here because these are the best juniors in the world and they're my age. It's my dream to win at Narrabeen again and to earn the same number of titles as Joel Parkinson - the only two time winner of this event."
The Australians put in another good showing with seven of the eight surfers competing, advancing into Round three.
Beau Atchison and Jayke Sharpe made up for their respective Round one losses, posting convincing wins over Jatyr Berasluce, from Euskadi and American Cory Arrambide respectively.
"I felt like and embarrassment yesterday," Atchison admitted, "but it felt really good to do some proper turns out there today and advance through that heat."
Sharp soared home with one of the day's top scoring rides, an 8.33 out of a possible ten and looks tough to beat in the upcoming rounds.
Unfortunately things didn't go as smoothly for Heath Joske who became the only casualty for Australia, when he was defeated by top South American seed Charlie Brown.
Wiggolly Dantas added to the strong showing from the Brazilian contingent, his affinity for reeling left-handers evident when he disposed of South Africa's Casey Grant, scoring an 8.50 points out of ten off his last wave of the heat.
"It's very important for me to make another round," Dantas said. "This is a good wave and it's very difficult to make it through. I am very happy I took some good waves and I'm to the next round."
Other surfers advancing through to Round three included Tamaroa McComb (PYF), Rudy Palmboom (ZAF), Josh Redman (ZAF), Shu Hagiwara (JPN), Casey Brown (HAW), Clay Marzo (HAW), Adam Wickwire (USA) and Kyle Ramey (HAW).
Special guests, two time ASP World Junior Champion and current World No. 4 Joel Parkinson (AUS) as well as 1999 ASP World Champion Mark Occhilupo (AUS) are also at North Narrabeen beach.
A total field of 48 junior men, 18 junior women plus four wildcards from eight surfing regions feature in this year's Billabong ASP World Junior Championships.
[Carissa Moore (in yellow) receiving the winner's prize]
[The number of high-rated Australian surf competitions are set to increase]
[Pablo Gutierrez winner of the Superbock Pro]
Hawaiian Carissa Moore won the Roxy Pro Junior surfing in her first ever contest in France
ASP International has announce the inception of their fourth regional branch, ASP Australasia
Twenty-six-year-old Pablo Guitierrez took top honours in the Superbock Pro in Portugal after defeating fellow Portugeuse surfer Eduardo Fernandes in the final
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