Fitzgibbons into 2009 Dream Tour

REIGNING ASP World Junior Champion Sally Fitzgibbons has made world surfing history.

Sally has secured enough ratings points on the ASP World Qualifying Series (WQS) to qualify for the 2009 ASP Women’s World Tour well before the halfway point this season – a feat that has never been accomplished by any surfer (male or female) in history.

“My initial reaction when I found out that I had qualified was elation,” Fitzgibbons said.

“It is a dream come true to qualify for the ASP Women’s World Tour and an honor to be competing against the top women surfers in the world.”



“This is the earliest that any ASP WQS surfer, man or woman, has ever qualified for the following year’s ASP World Tour,” Hunt said.

“Sally’s current worst results are scores that others would love to have as their best and the young natural-footer should be able to set a record winning margin by year’s end.”


Fitzgibbons, who claimed the Billabong ASP World Junior Championships in early January, has been on a roll since then, winning the ASP WQS 6-Star Roxy Pro Women’s Surfing Festival in Phillip Island, the ASP WQS 4-Star Arrive Alive Central Coast Pro at Soldiers Beach, finishing runner-up at the ASP WQS 6-Star Midori Pro in Newcastle, equal fifth at the ASP WQS 5-Star Drug Aware Pro in Margaret River and finishing runner-up at the ASP WQS 5-Star Billabong Surf ECO Pro to amass an unprecedented 9,090 ratings points.



“I have had a very good run of events so far this season,” Fitzgibbons said in what can only be described as a massive understatement.