Veselko and Bonvalot move on, Yolanda out of Peniche's test

Athe Portuguese Francisca Veselko and Teresa Bonvalot today secured a place in the final rooms of the world's surf elite race in Peniche, while the compatriot Yolanda Hopkins was eliminated in the first phase of the competition.

In the second round of the first round, Francisca Veselko scored 8,54 points (in 20 possible) on the two best waves (4,67 and 3,87 points), pushing the number three out of the World Surf League (WSL), American Sawyer Lindblad, who scored 7.90 points (400 and 3.90).

Then, in the fifth ‘heat’, it was Teresa Bonvalot’s turn to make a ‘brilharete’, with 11.40 points (7.33 and 4.07) and eliminating the Hawaiian Gabriela Bryan, who arrived in Portugal with the yellow lycra (leader of the world ranking), and who scored 10.93 (5.93 and 5.00).

And on the seventh drums, Yolanda Hopkins measured forces against the world champion in title, Australian Molly Picklum, but the Portuguese Olympic failed to pass and do the full Portuguese on the female stage.

‘Yoyo’ made a tube that earned him the best score of the day among women, but failed to add a good second wave, ending with 11.10 points (9.00 and 2.10), while the ‘aussie’ made 15.74 points (8.07 and 7.67) and moved on.

In the first battery of the ‘quarters’, Veselko will face Hawaiian Bettylou Sakura Johnson, and ‘Teresinha’ is in the third ‘heat’ against American Lakey Peterson.

In the male race, Portugal has Guilherme Ribeiro in the quarter finals, after having exceeded two rounds today, while Frederico Morais was eliminated in the second phase.

After an intense day of action at Supertubes Beach, the organization suspended the competition and will return the call on Saturday at 8:30.

The Meo Rip Curl Pro Portugal, 10th and prepenultimate stage of the Championship Tour (CT), began today and the waiting period extends until 25 October.