Margaret River Pro: Tyler Wright only Australian into surfing semi-finals

TYLER Wright has won her second title of the year after defeating Courtney Conlogue in the final of the Margaret River Pro.

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AUSTRALIAN Tyler Wright has blasted to her second win on the world surfing tour after downing American rival Courtney Conlogue for her first victory in the Margaret River Pro.

A fired-up Wright racked up a near-perfect total in the final to claim her second world tour win of the year after her first-up victory in the Roxy Pro last month.

“Every wave I had felt dreamy,’’ said Wright who dedicated the win to her close-knit family and brother Owen who is recovering from a head injury sustained in a wipeout in Hawaii last year.

Conlogue could find no answer for the outstanding early form of Wright in the heat, losing to the Australian in a replay of the Roxy Pro final.

The loss has also moved Wright even closer to Conlogue on the world rankings as the world tour prepares to leave Australian shores for the fourth leg of the tour in Rio in May.

Wright has shown red-hot form this season after stating for the first time she wants a maiden world crown.

The surfer from the NSW south coast has lived up to her ambitious declaration and on Friday beat both current world champion Carissa Moore and six-time world cham Stephanie Gilmore to earn her spot in the final.

Conlogue, with three previous crowns to her name at Margaret River, went into the event as the favourite, but in the final Wright was untouchable crown with a 18.67 to 10.57 victory

It had earlier been a disappointing day for the locals when Sally Fitzgibbons and Laura Enever also lost their quarter-finals.

Gilmore has admitted she is yet to find her feet on the world tour after almost an entire season out with a knee injury, but the Australian said she hoped it would have returned by the Margaret River event.

But eventual winner Wright managed to edge out Gilmore in their all-Aussie match-up, as she did at the last event at Bells Beach.