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Posted on Saturday August 21st 2010 at 10:43 a.m.
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Airini Mason - 2010 ASP Australasia Pro Junior Champion!
Fortunately organizers utilized yesterdays clean performance small waves with a big day of surfing that saw the Blue Kiss Pro Junior Women's advance through three rounds and reduce the field to the final four surfers left in the semi-finals.
Oddly, yesterdays losing performances highlighted the late afternoon heats with Sarah Mason (Casuarina/NSW) eliminated in her round three heat which left her older sister Airini Mason as the undisputed series champion for 2010.
The final heat of the day saw Airini also eliminated from the event placing fourth behind Nikki Van Dyke (Victoria), Ellie-Jean Coffee (NSW) and Philippa Anderson (NSW).
The consequence of these heats resulted in Airini Mason and West Australia's Felicity Palmeteer as the qualifiers for the ASP World Pro Junior Championship Series.
"It feels great to win a 2nd ASP Australasian Pro Junior Series title and get the chance to compete for a World Title again" said Mason who has now won this prestigious series twice.
"I last won the series in 2006 and haven't been competing full-time on juniors for the past few years as my focus has been on the WQS - However the incentive of competing for a World Title, especially with an event in Bali made me decide to do all the junior events this year.
"I'm really looking forward to competing in Bali and Narrabeen and hopefully I can win a World Title as it is every surfers dream."