The women lit up the beach late in the afternoon with Hawaiian world champ Carissa Moore (pictured) posting the best score of the contest, a 9.90 for a carving wave with a big "air reverse" to beat Frenchwoman Johanne Defay.
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Meanwhile, Newcastle surfers have dominated Merewether Friday as local boys Morgan Cibilic and Ryan Callinan progressed to the quarter finals.
Callinan took half a heat to get a decent score on the board, but when he did he reeled in his opponent Owen Wright at the halfway point.
He was never headed from that point and set up a big Merewether showdown in the quarter finals with his club mate Morgan Cibilic, meaning that the Newcastle-based club will have someone go as deep as the semi-finals, at least.
The mate-versus-mate showdown - with only one to profess to the semis - comes as the swell at Merewether returns with 1 to 1.5 metre waved inshore increasing to up to two metres offshore. Conditions are expected to maintain through the weekend to Sunday.
The action continues at Merewether.
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