Australians reached the MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal finals at Supertubos before the World Surf League heads to Bells Beach in Victoria from March 26
Australia’s two-time WSL champion Tyler Wright lost the Rip Curl Pro Portugal final to Johanne Defay, as Grfffin Colapinto defeated Australian Ethan Ewing in the men’s decider.Australia’s two-time WSL champion Tyler Wright lost the Rip Curl Pro Portugal final to Johanne Defay, as Grfffin Colapinto defeated Australian Ethan Ewing in the men’s decider.
Then Ewing, who’d earlier in the day performed superbly to get through his quarter-final and semi-final, was outclassed in the late afternoon men’s showdown with American Grfffin Colapinto, who prevailed 17.94 to 11.13.The 29-year-old Wright, who had earlier defeated Brazil’s Tatiana Weston-Webb in the semi-finals, 13.36 to 11.30, couldn’t find either the same waves or form for the final as she moved up to eighth overall in the women’s WSL standings .
After her worst start since qualifying full time for the tour in 2011 – starting the season with two third-round exits – two-time world champion Wright looked more like her usual self in Portugal.“It’s taken me a while to figure out some of the different changes that I’ve had going on. Thank you Portugal for having us, I really enjoyed myself.”
But Crosby’s elder brother Griffin was later to exact revenge, riding one wave majestically for a 9.67 score, the best of the day, to prevent Ewing taking the series leader’s yellow jersey.“It was super-cool to surf the final with Griffin, we’re really good friends,” Ewing, who’s bound for Tahiti for the Olympics in the Australian team alongside Wright, said.
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