Young Australian Liam O’Brien has soared into contention to qualify for next year’s World Surf League after a 2nd-place end on the US Open.
The Gold Coast product fell to Brazil’s Yago Dora in Sunday’s (Monday AEST) final at Huntington Beach, however, picks up a whopping 8000 factors for his runners-up finish.
That end result manner O’Brien is now tenth at the 2019 qualifying collection ratings, with the top 10 from this yr’s collection incomes full-time spots on next year’s WSL excursion.
“If you had have told me on the begin of the week that I changed into going to be inside the very last, I could’ve been disbelieving of it,” the 20-12 months-old instructed AAP.
The Huntington Beach event in California is one of the most important on the qualifying collection, and O’Brien had to get beyond WSL excursion regulars Kanoa Igarashi and Jack Freestone on his manner to the decider.
O’Brien secured himself a seeding for 2019 to compete inside the huge occasions on the qualifying tour after three wins in smaller QS1000 occasions final 12 months.
That elevation has paid dividends with his 8000-point haul inside the one event eclipsing the 4700 points he gained throughout 19 activities in 2018.
The end result means O’Brien has 12,300 factors up to now this year and sits 10th on the series rankings beforehand of a European swing starting with every other 10,000-factor occasion in Spain in September.
“This is the first year that I’ve been attending to have a move in any respect the larger activities so I’ve just been pretty lots just taking the opportunities as they come,” he stated.
“To get an end result here is unreal.
“At this stage, every body can surf, even can compete just in addition to every other.
“It’s sincerely a long system. I’ve been doing the QS for 3 years now and I’ve only simply cracked the bigger occasions … I’ve been playing the adventure and it’s the first-rate revel in.”
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