Australia’s Callum Robson has held his nerve to supply the primary good 10-point experience of the World Surf League championship season within the nick of time.
Robson was dealing with an early exit from the Rip Curl Professional Portugal, needing a giant rating within the dying minutes of his elimination spherical warmth in opposition to Brazil’s Gabriel Medina and Frenchman Maxime Huscenot at Supertubos Seashore on Sunday.
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When an enormous wave appeared, he launched right into a deep drop, barely making the underside flip then disappearing from view earlier than rocketing out of the tube and drawing a 10 from the judges to advance.
“It feels actually good, particularly in a second the place I wanted it probably the most,” stated Robson.
“I used to be so completely satisfied, I used to be clapping so laborious that my fingers acquired sore.”
Following the lads’s elimination spherical competitors in Peniche was placed on maintain whereas organizers waited for the huge swell to ease down and the tide to show.
Later within the day, Robson additionally superior by means of his Spherical of 32 match-up over compatriot Liam O’Brien, whereas quite a lot of large names bowed out.
Former world champions Kelly Slater and John John Florence had been eradicated as was present world No.2 Brazil’s Felipe Toledo and No.four Italian Leonardo Fioravanti.
Whereas two rounds of 32 heats are nonetheless to be accomplished, 5 Australians together with Robson and rankings chief Jack Robinson are by means of to the spherical of 16.
Robinson subsequent takes on compatriot Ryan Callinan.
There are two all-Australian showdowns within the girls’s occasion, which can also be as much as the spherical of 16 stage.
Veterans Stephanie Gilmore and Sally Fitzgibbons sq. off as do younger weapons Isabella Nichols and Molly Picklum, who leads the rankings alongside Hawaiian Carissa Moore.
Macy Callaghan and Sophie McCulloch additionally stay alive.
– with AAP
