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Australia’s best 20 year and under surfers are under fire
from the internationals, especially the French, at the prestigious Kustom Jetty
Surf Pro Junior running at Jan Juc beach in Victoria. 
Young 15 year old French surfer Pauline Ado who late last
year won the World Junior Championships in Brazil was too good for Australia’s
best defeating Gold Coast surfer Airini Mason in the onshore 1m surf today. 
“I know Australia has many of the best young surfers
competing and I knew this would be a hard event to win so I’m feeling good
about winning today. I’m here to experience the best young surfers and there
are so many but now I must return to France for my schooling”. 
In a low scoring final that suffered due to wave quality during
Ado managed to take the win on a two wave tally of only 8 points (out of a possible
20) to defeat Mason on 7.5. Mason was happy with her
2nd placing today saying “The waves were simply terrible for our final so
there was little either of us could do. I’ve finished the best of the Australians
so that is good for me and I’ll lead the ratings into the next event in a
couple of weeks so I’m pleased.” Mason posted
a significant and big semi final win over her biggest Australian rival in Sally
Fitzgibbons (Sth Coast NSW) today. Mason opened with an excellent 8.5 in the semi
and that ride proved decisive as Fitzgibbons chased her throughout but was unable
to score better than a 5.75. Ado’s win comes
on the back of young 14 year old French surfer Maxime Huscenot (Reunion Island/French
Territory) who won the Cadet Cup yesterday defeating the best 16 and under surfers
of Australia. | 
