Costa Rican Brisa Hennessy started with a defeat in stage 5 of the CT, the Margaret River Pro, which today contested its first round in one-meter waves with strong offshore.

This is the second time in exactly five stages that she has fallen to the elimination round, after having made three semi-finals and avoiding the aforementioned phase in three tournaments (Pipe, Sunset and Bells).

Hennessy was unable to find the waves in her heat against Isabella Nichols and Tatiana Weston Webb, scoring 8,6 and the other two 10,34 and 9,56 respectively in a heat that was slow for everyone and which declared the end of the competition because the sea was inconsistent.

Brisa will now face Luana Silva of Brazil and India Robinson of Australia in the second round of the elimination round.

On a day where the scores were far from excellent, the best was Bettylou Sakkura Johnson who scored 12,33.

The full results were as follows:

Round 1
SERIES 1: Molly Picklum (AUS) 11.33 BEAT Alyssa Spencer (USA) 10.66, Luana Silva (BRA) 8.67
SERIES 2: Lakey Peterson (USA) 10.73 BEAT Sophie McCulloch (AUS) 9.60, Johanne Defay (FRA) 9.57
SERIES 3: Caitlin Simmers (USA) 11.57 BEAT Sawyer Lindblad (USA) 11.00, Bronte Macaulay (AUS) 10.96
SERIES 4: Gabriela Bryan (HAW) 10.90 BEAT Caroline Marks (USA) 10.67, India Robinson (AUS) 10.37
SERIES 5: Bettylou Sakura Johnson (HAW) 12.33 BEAT Tyler Wright (AUS) 11.83, Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) 11.57
SERIES 6: Isabella Nichols (AUS) 10.34 BEAT Tatiana Weston-Webb (BRA) 9.56, Brisa Hennessy (CRC) 8.60

This is how the elimination round ended
SERIES 1: Johanne Defay (FRA) vs. Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) vs. Bronte Macaulay (AUS)
SERIES 2: Brisa Hennessy (CRC) vs. Luana Silva (BRA) vs. India Robinson (AUS)

Men's Round 1
Series 1: Barron Mamaiya (HAW), Imaikalani DeVault (HAW), Eli Haneman (HAW)
Series 2: Jack Robinson (AUS), Gabriel Medina (BRA), Deivid Silva (BRA)
Series 3: Jake Marshall (USA), Ramzi Boukhiam (MOR), Kelly Slater (USA)
Series 4: John John Florence (HAW), Ian Gentil (HAW), George Pittar (AUS)
Series 5: Ethan Ewing (AUS), Kade Matson (USA), Reef Heazlewood (AUS)
Series 6: Griffin Colapinto (USA), Seth Moniz (HAW), Otis North (AUS)
Series 7: Kanoa Igarashi (JPN), Italo Ferreira (BRA), Callum Robson (AUS)
Series 8: Cole Houshmand (USA), Ryan Callinan (AUS), Caio Ibelli (BRA)
Series 9: Crosby Colapinto (USA), Yago Dora (BRA), Frederico Morais (POR)
Series 10: Jordy Smith (RSA), Matthew McGillivray (RSA), Jacob Willcox (AUS)
Series 11: Rio Waida (IDN), Connor O'Leary (JPN), Samuel Pupo (BRA)
Series 12: Liam O'Brien (AUS), Leonardo Fioravanti (ITA), Miguel Pupo (BRA)