Cleland, De Col, Satt, Usuna and Pastrana made it to round 4 of the Volcom Pipe Pro

Malpartida is still competing in round 3; tomorrow the top seeded players are expected to go into the water: Giorgi, Tudela, Del Castillo and Aranburu


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Mexican Alan Cleland, Peruvian Cristobal de Col, Argentine Leandro Usuna and Puerto Rican Dwight Pastrana managed to get into the top 64 surfers of the Volcom Pipe Pro today after putting in very good performances on a second day of perfect and solid waves at Pipe.

Alvaro Malpartida, also from Peru, had a good performance to get into round 3, but he did not compete in his heat and will go first in what is expected to be tomorrow Friday.

Today, only two Hispanic Americans left the event: Tomás López Moreno, who was unable to repeat his performance from last year, and Manuel Selman, who missed a chance at gold, needing 1,2 to continue. With this, 10 of the 14 Hispanics who started the championship remain.

The still young Alan Cleland was a beast at Pipe today. He started his heat with a long tube at Pipe that was worth 6,7 and at the end he improved with the fifth best wave of the event, an 8,33 thanks to an epic tube at Pipe. He left Nathan Florence in second place, and that's saying something.

For his part, Cristobal de Col was active, finding a gem for Pipe that earned him more than 7 points and finding a backup that left him with 11,94, second in his series behind Jeronimo Vargas who had the best performance of the event with 17,94 in total; he beat Mitch Coleborn and Makana Pang in that series.

Lele Usuna debuted in the event with an excellent reading of the conditions that were slow in her heat and that is why she quickly found a couple of intermediaries that gave her the lead that she maintained until the end.

Guille Satt was late in that series but found a girl that he backed up with both hands and got really deep to get out and get 4,67 which gave him a total of 5,74 and left Philippe Chagas in third and Mikey O'Shaghnessy in fourth.

Finally, the 21-year-old Dwight Pastrana continued to show a good nose and courage for the Pipe tubes. Quietly, before Eala Stewart who yesterday had the best score of the day, he won, leaving the aforementioned in second. The Puerto Rican has it in waves like Pipe.

Much of the fourth round series was thus determined as follows:

-Marco Giorgi and Alan Cleland go against Cody Young and Roi Kanazawa
-Joaquin del Castillo and Guillermo Satt go against Evan Geiselman and Jeronimo Vargas
-Lele Usuna and Cristobal de Colse will face Jordan Lawler and Mitch Parkinson.
-Miguel Tudela goes against Wiggolly Dantas, Tanner Hendrickson and Eala Stewart
-Dwight Pastrana goes against John John, Noa Deane  and Ryder Guest
-Aritz Aranburu will face Jack Robinson, Keijiro Nishi and an opponent yet to be determined.

The surfer of the day was Jeronimo Vargas.
Young Dwight Pastrana is still in the race thanks to his nose for the tubes at Pipe.
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