THE WOMEN'S DIVISION COMPLETES THE SINGLES AND THE MEN TEAR INTO ROUND TWO

It was an early start today at Point Danger with the riders on the spot and rigging up at 05:30 ready to pitch back into the women's division single eliminations.

The first heats were rolling by 07:00 and Carla Herrera kicked things off beating Anna Williams as she began her push for a shot at the top of the podium (remember, this is a winner takes-all-event between Carla and Jalou Langeree - who finishes on top wins the Championship!)

She sought out the better waves on offer, managing three to four turns per wave more than once with some stretched out cutbacks and gauging assaults on the wave face, always expertly timed before the wave detonated.

She went through to the semis where she would take on, and beat, Johanna securing her route to the final against none other than the only threat to her 2018 World Title bid - Carla Herrera Oria.

When the horn sounded for the start of the final, Jalou struck first with well linked turns and her wave selection was fully on point. The conditions were fluctuating, with the bigger sets not holding up long enough for more than a hit or two at a time, but Jalou was in perfect position every time right before the waves detonated on the reef.

Jalou was giving Carla a lot of work to do if she was to stand any chance of catching her but the Spaniardwasn't backing down and Carlapicked off a number of the cleaner waves on the inside, showing how much she's improved her wave riding game this season to match her rapidly developing strapless freestyle level.

Both riders were giving it everything with the tour title on the line but the results haven't yet been announced so we'll have to see who came out of that one on top tomorrow!

In the mini-final, Johanna met Jen Milton and they went head to head for third place. The heat started, was postponed due to faltering winds, and then started again and the tension was palpable - particularly for JC who's followed the tour all season and has been super consistent to retain fourth place overall.

However, when the heat finally got underway JC was firing from the off linking up four turns on her first wave. She kept up the pace and was steadily stacking up the points while Jen found herself way down in the righthand corner of the contest area for much of the heat with fewer waves to work with.

Results for that heat coming up tomorrow! THE MEN:

As conditions deteriorated further the heat was cancelled and the decision was then made to call a halt to men's round two. So now it's all about tomorrow with a 05:00 AM start coming up so that the riders will be ready to hit it hard at first light.

The plan is to finish off the men's single eliminations and then, if the conditions allow, it'll be onto the double eliminations as we push towards crowning our KSWT Torquay winners and the 2018 KSWT World Champions!