Boost Mobile Pro Round 1 and Red Bull Airborne on Standby

“Snapper and all of the points on the Gold Coast really rely on having a lot of sand for them to work well and, unfortunately, at the moment there is a real lack of sand, particularly at Snapper,” said Kieren Perrow, WSL Competition Director. “Over the last week we have seen the sand begin to migrate around the point and we are confident that in the next few days we will have enough to run heats at the primary site.”

“Fortunately, we’ve got some really good conditions at our back up location of Duranbah around the corner so we will look to get competition underway there today,” continued Perrow. “There are some decent four-to-five foot wedges going left and right, which will make for a really exciting opening day of competition for Men’s and hopefully Women’s Round 1.”

Defending Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast winner Julian Wilson (AUS) will hope to get his campaign to go back-to-back off to a strong start in Heat 5 but will have his work cut out against 2019 CT Rookie Seth Moniz (HAW) and Wildcard Trials winner Reef Heazlewood (AUS).

All eyes will be on Heat 6 of Round 1 when reigning WSL Champion Gabriel Medina (BRA) hits the water in his matchup with CT comeback kid Ryan Callinan (AUS) along with 2018 WSL World Junior Champion and Quiksilver Wildcard, Mateus Herdy (BRA).