ELEVEN-year-old Annissa Flynn took both Junior and Women's divisions at the Quiksilver King of the Jungle event at Phuket's Kamala beach, coming in only briefly to change rash shirts before padding out again between the two finals.
She deftly maneuvered her way through the often tricky two-foot beachbreak during the two 20-minute final heats to capitalise on scoring opportunities, besting her rivals and coming back to the beach with incredible back-to-back wins.
After Sunday's performance, Annissa has a virtual lock on the Quiksilver Thailand Surf Series in both divisions going into the third and final event that will be held at her home break of Kata Beach from September 4-6, having won the Junior division in the first event of the series and getting second in the Womens. She is sponsored by Quiksilver South East Asia.
After her Women's final, the young surfer admitted to being a tad tired saying: ''Towards the end I did get a little tired, because I got a couple of good waves so it was long paddle back out.''
When asked how she felt about winning two divisions in one day, she replied: ''I didn't really expect to win the Juniors again, because Oliver is such a good surfer and I won over him the last time. He just didn't get any good waves
''I'm really happy about winning the Women's, because last time I got second.'' Annissa had recently been to Bali in Indonesia and competed in the Quiksilver King of the Groms event at Kuta Beach, so she was in great contest form for this event.
In the Mens Open, 53-year-old Australian shaper Michael Anthony bested Kamala local Ekkarat Sriden, winner of the first event of the Quiksilver Thailand Surf Series at Kalim Beach, to climb atop the podium and fill his trophy with Kingfisher beer on the Print Kamala Resort stage, sculling it joyfully before accepting his money and prizes.
''I didn't think I had a real chance to win, being a bit older than the other guys. Back home in Torquay the waves are a lot different, but surfing here the last couple of months has really improved my small wave surfing I guess.''
Noppasit Boonchoy took third place, while Yudi Andika came in fourth.
The Longboard division win was dominated by Preecha Takira to claim his second win of the series.
Jamie Smith stylishly surfed to a second place finish ahead of Preecha Anantapoom and Smith's long-time friend and visitor from the Aceh province of Indonesia, Yudi Andika.
Almost 60 surfers from Thailand, Australia, Japan, Hawaii, the US, and Indonesia participated in the three-day King of the Jungle event at Kamala Beach, spread across four divisions.
The Thailand Surf Series is sanctioned by the Asian Surfing Championships. The third and final event of the series, the Island Crown at Kata Beach, will be happening from September 4-6.
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She deftly maneuvered her way through the often tricky two-foot beachbreak during the two 20-minute final heats to capitalise on scoring opportunities, besting her rivals and coming back to the beach with incredible back-to-back wins.
After Sunday's performance, Annissa has a virtual lock on the Quiksilver Thailand Surf Series in both divisions going into the third and final event that will be held at her home break of Kata Beach from September 4-6, having won the Junior division in the first event of the series and getting second in the Womens. She is sponsored by Quiksilver South East Asia.
After her Women's final, the young surfer admitted to being a tad tired saying: ''Towards the end I did get a little tired, because I got a couple of good waves so it was long paddle back out.''
When asked how she felt about winning two divisions in one day, she replied: ''I didn't really expect to win the Juniors again, because Oliver is such a good surfer and I won over him the last time. He just didn't get any good waves
''I'm really happy about winning the Women's, because last time I got second.'' Annissa had recently been to Bali in Indonesia and competed in the Quiksilver King of the Groms event at Kuta Beach, so she was in great contest form for this event.
In the Mens Open, 53-year-old Australian shaper Michael Anthony bested Kamala local Ekkarat Sriden, winner of the first event of the Quiksilver Thailand Surf Series at Kalim Beach, to climb atop the podium and fill his trophy with Kingfisher beer on the Print Kamala Resort stage, sculling it joyfully before accepting his money and prizes.
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Jamie Smith stylishly surfed to a second place finish ahead of Preecha Anantapoom and Smith's long-time friend and visitor from the Aceh province of Indonesia, Yudi Andika.
Almost 60 surfers from Thailand, Australia, Japan, Hawaii, the US, and Indonesia participated in the three-day King of the Jungle event at Kamala Beach, spread across four divisions.
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