Sport
Beachley banking on new sponsor
John Greco
1 May 2008
LAYNE Beachley's annual World Championship Tour surfing event is still not certain to go ahead this year as the seven-time world champion continues her search for a major sponsor.
Last year's sponsor National Australia Bank elected not to take up a second year option for the 2008 event at Queenscliff.
The 35-year-old, who would like a sponsor locked in by the end of May, said she was still confident her successful event would go ahead for the third straight year.
"In the first year I didn't get a sponsor until July and last year it was August," Beachley said.
"There's still time but ideally I would like to have it sorted out soon.
"I'll just keep turning the cement and making phonecalls until I get something."
Beachley has been busy walking the Great Wall of China, writing her autobiography and training ahead of the next WCT event, the Billabong Girls Pro in Brazil in July.
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