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J-Bay ready for top surfers
07/07/2007 09:47 - (SA)
Durban - Just a week after negotiating Chile's chilly waters, the Foster's ASP World Tour's Top 45 are readying themselves for battle - this time at the majestic venue of 'Supertubes' for the Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay.
Stop number five of 10 on this year's world tour, the Jeffreys Bay boasts a July 11-22 waiting period and requires four full days of competition to crown a champion.
World No 1 Mick Fanning (AUS) along with past world champions Andy Irons (HAW) and Kelly Slater (USA) have dominated proceedings at the barrelling right-hand pointbreak for the last half-decade. Each is in the hunt to do so again in 2007.
Last year's champion Fanning is ready to defend his title after finishing equal 3rd in Chile.
Like his elite tour counterparts, Fanning will be better acclimated to the cold-water conditions heading into South Africa - in recent years the tour stop immediately preceding the Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay was Fiji.
"JBay will feel like a bath," Fanning said. "It won't be so cold.
Usually we go there and it's the coldest stop on tour, but after Chile, it will probably be a little bit different."
Andy Irons jumped to World No 3 with his win in Chile last week.
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