{"id":41137,"date":"2025-05-10T07:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T07:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/sally-fitzgibbons-resurgence-falls-short-as-bettylou-sakura-johnson-claims-first-wsl-title\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T07:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T07:55:16","slug":"sally-fitzgibbons-resurgence-falls-short-as-bettylou-sakura-johnson-claims-first-wsl-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/sally-fitzgibbons-resurgence-falls-short-as-bettylou-sakura-johnson-claims-first-wsl-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally Fitzgibbons\u2019 resurgence falls short as Bettylou Sakura Johnson claims first WSL title"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Hawaiian beats Australian veteran in Gold Coast Pro women\u2019s decider<\/li>\n<li>36-year-old wildcard Julian Wilson faces Felipe Toledo in men\u2019s final<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sally Fitzgibbons has gone down swinging in the final of the Gold Coast Pro, with Bettylou Sakura Johnson claiming her first World Surf League trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgibbons was hunting her first Championship Tour title in four years, but her 20-year-old Hawaiian rival emerged triumphant in Saturday\u2019s showdown.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/10\/surfing-wsl-gold-coast-pro-bettylou-sakura-johnson-sally-fitzgibbons-felipe-toledo-julian-wilson\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaiian beats Australian veteran in Gold Coast Pro women\u2019s decider 36-year-old wildcard Julian Wilson faces Felipe Toledo in men\u2019s final Sally Fitzgibbons has gone down swinging in the final of the Gold Coast Pro, with Bettylou Sakura Johnson claiming her first World Surf League trophy. Fitzgibbons was hunting her first Championship Tour title in four &#8230; <a title=\"Sally Fitzgibbons\u2019 resurgence falls short as Bettylou Sakura Johnson claims first WSL title\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/sally-fitzgibbons-resurgence-falls-short-as-bettylou-sakura-johnson-claims-first-wsl-title\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sally Fitzgibbons\u2019 resurgence falls short as Bettylou Sakura Johnson claims first WSL title\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}