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Wright beats Sally Fitzgibbons then Carissa Moore
Perfect return after missing 2018 and 2019 seasons
Tyler Wright eliminated fellow Australian Sally Fitzgibbons in the semi-final and then Carissa Moore in the final of the 2020 Maui Pro in Hawaii on Monday. Photograph: MediaPunch/REX/Shutterstock
Tyler Wright eliminated fellow Australian Sally Fitzgibbons in the semi-final and then Carissa Moore in the final of the 2020 Maui Pro in Hawaii on Monday. Photograph: MediaPunch/REX/Shutterstock
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Sun 20 Dec 2020 22.32 EST
After three long years wrecked by debilitating illness and the disruption of a global pandemic, Tyler Wright is back on top of the surfing world. The Australian won a historic Maui Pro on Monday at Hawaii’s Banzai Pipeline to secure her first WSL event title since 2017.
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Yesterday, a few things happened that will never happen for the first time again: John John Florence won his first Pipe Masters and Tyler Wright won the first women’s CT event at Pipeline. Both are things that probably should have happened a long time ago, but hey, it’s 2020 and weirder things are happening.
It was a shaky start to the WSL season the Billabong Pipe Masters was put on a brief hiatus after a handful of staffers tested positive for Coronavirus and the Maui Pro at Honolua Bay was moved to Pipeline after a shark attack claimed the life of a surfer but now that it’s in the books, John John Florence and Tyler Wright are on the page titled “Historic.”
Italo, the current World Champ, has been put on notice. Photo: Brent Bielmann/WSL This is what Sally Fitzgibbons looks like when she makes it. Photo by Brent Bielmann/WSL This is what Sally looks like when she doesn t make it. Still, she ll certainly take a semi-final finish. Photo: Keoki Saguibo/WSL John John in a place he knows well. Photo: Tony Heff/WSL A genuine show of emotion from the two-time champ who may be on his way to a third. Photo: Tony Heff/WSL Jeremy Flores will always be in the hunt at Pipe. Photo: Brent Bielmann/WSL
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