22 Nov 2008

Hareb's hopes of making world surfing tour suffer setback

1:16 pm on 22 November 2008

Taranaki surfer Paige Hareb's hopes of becoming the first New Zealand female surfer to qualify for the world surfing tour have suffered a setback.

Hareb's finished seventh overall in the qualifying series with the top six becoming part of the tour which features the top 18 surfers in the world.

However she could still make the tour as four of the surfers ranked ahead of her in the qualifying series are also currently in the world's top 10.

That automatically qualifies them for next year's world tour and should they remain there with two more events left on the pro tour this year Hareb will still qualify.