Medina e Filipinho avançam ao Round 3 - Lance! Newspaper - Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018 - Poliesportivo - Mundial de Surfe - page 20 - Rio de Janeiro -RJ - Brazil -www.lance.com.br

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Medina e Filipinho avançam ao Round 3 - Lance! Newspaper - Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018 - Poliesportivo - Mundial de Surfe - page 20 - Rio de Janeiro -RJ - Brazil  -www.lance.com.br
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                  So nice  Deputy leader Gabriel Medina (photo) passed by his heat .
                  Filipinho advanced, but had to go through the Recap




Medina and Filipinho advanced to the Round 3

After a week of postponement because of weak waves, began yesterday the stage of Franceof the WCT in Hossegor. And with great performance of Gabriel Medina. Favorite of the fifth heat, the current deputy leader won the heat and automatically moved to the Round 3. By the way Filipe Toledo, the leader: took a fright. Favorite of the sixth battery, he was defeated and needed to seek his place in Round 3 in the Recap, when he did very well. So the two favorites for the title this year  are still alive. It is worth remember that Filipinho leads with 49,785 and former World Champion Gabriel Medina is in the second place with 45,685 points.


Medina

 Medina faced the Brazilian Tomas Hermes and the Australian Ryan Callinan as rivals in his heat. With a 5.5 and a 6.43, he managed the leadership and moved automatically to the Round 3.


Filpinho

Filipe toledo entered the next heat and although he scored  5.77 in one of the waves, he did not get a second reasonable score, adding only a 3.33 and stayed behind the Australian Connor O'Leary. Thus, he had to seek the place in the Round 2, the recap. His direct dispute was against the European champion, the Frenchman Jorgann Couzinet. In this heat, the Brazuca found his surf. So, did not give chance to his rival, who is local of Hossegor: Filipinho scored 8.17 and 7.67, guaranteed himself in the next round of the stage. "No stress, letting things flow in the competition," said Filipinho, who, by the specialists is a free sniper at this stage, because Medina is considered the biggest favorite.



The rival of the brasucas

The unique surfer who is still in the title fight with Medina and Filipinho and can take the Cup of Brazil, the Australian Julian Wilson (third place with 37,125 points)


Other Brazilians

Two other Brazilians won their heats and advanced straight to the Round 3. Adriano de Souza, the World Champion of 2015, and Ítalo Ferreira (fourth placed in the Rankin and still with chance of title ) overcame  Yago Dora and won the heat, qualifying and let the aerial races champion for recap. Other Brazilians who did not win their heats and are in the recap (to be disputed at dawn of today) are: Miguel Pupo, Ian Gouveia, Michael Rodrigues, Jesse Mendes and William Cardoso.

*Brazuca: a slang for Brazilian


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