Tiago Pires

Tiago Pires - Interview and video

Form Guide

Tiago Pires - Interview and video

Form Guide
Stu Nettle

Last year Portugal's only WCT surfer, Tiago Pires, missed almost the whole season due to a knee injury. At the end of the year he applied for one of two injury wildcards and received it. "Reading that email," Pires said in a recent interview with the ASP, "was almost like finding out I had qualified for the first time. Just a very positive and joyful news."

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