Billabong Girls Pro Brazil

The Billabong Girls Pro ASP World Championship Tour event in Brazil is well underway, with the quarterfinal round scheduled for 3pm local time at Praia da Tiririca, Itacaré.

The event saw an early shock departure for this years rankings leader, Melanie Redman-Carr's (AUS), who lost both her round one and round two heats and now suffers the ignomy of sharing the event's last place.

As expected, the South Americans have been in blistering form on their home ground but the luck of the draw pits the two remaining South Americans, Brazilian rookie Silvana Lima and former World Champion Sofia Mulanovich (PER), against each other in the fourth quarterfinal; still, that does mean that there will be a South American in the Semis. It should make for one hell of a quarterfinal contest!

Quarterfinal listings (being screened live):

Quarterfinal 1: Julia Christian (USA) vs. Jessi Miley-Dyer (AUS)
Quarterfinal 2: Claire Bevilacqua (AUS) vs. Chelsea Georgeson (AUS)
Quarterfinal 3: Layne Beachley (AUS) vs. Heather Clark (ZAF)
Quarterfinal 4: Silvana Lima (BRA) vs. Sofia Mulanovich (PER)