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Two-time defending event champion Sofia Mulanovich (PER) made her intentions to remain atop the Roxy Pro podium crystal clear when she reached the quarter-finals of the US$78,300 event today. 
Kelly Slater has just claimed victory in what was an amazing climax to the Rip Curl Pro. In eight to 10 feet plus waves Slater unleashed a flurry of turns to take down Joel Parkinson. What a day folks, what a day! Afull report and images will follow shortly. 
Started with a bang, ended with a whimper. That’s the second to last day of the Rip Curl Pro. The day began with Joel Parkinson and Danny Wills smashing perfect sunny walls, and finished with Andy Irons and Bobby Martinez scratching their heads in a cold flat lineup. 
The second event on the Foster’s ASP Men’s World Tour was held in spectacular one to two metre (three to six feet) waves at Bells Beach in Victoria, Australia and Burrow had the huge crowd in attendance on their feet for the full 30 minutes of his heat. 
With the famous Bells Beach Bowl firing in consistent one to 1.5 metre (three to four foot) swells throughout the day, spectators were treated to some spectacular surfing as the rookies and wildcards dominated round two of the Rip Curl Pro. 
Hawaiian three-time Foster's ASP Men's World Tour champion Andy Irons threw down the challenge to one and all today after a devastating win in heat eight of round one of the Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach, Victoria, Australia. 
Long term swell forecasts have indicated that excellent waves will once again return to the famed Bells Beach stage for the 34th annual Rip Curl Pro Surf and Music Festival due to begin tomorrow (Tuesday 11 March), and competitors are anxious that they may have to unleash their “guns” or longer boards if the swell reaches overhead heights by the weekend as predicted. 
Surfers competing on the Foster’s ASP Men’s World Tour are pulling on the “rubber” this week in anticipation of competing on professional surfing’s grandest stage – Bell’s Beach – in Australia’s longest running event, the Rip Curl Pro. 
Slater’s win at the year’s first WCT was a sight. He never went haywire, never visibly dominated a heat. Instead, he played with his opponents like a cat with mice, often teasing them into making a move they’d later regret, or causing them to freeze up while waiting for nonexistent Perfect Waves. His tactical moves seemed to keep him interested in the event, while a number of other stars went the other way – lost interest as the swell vanished, and lost heats as a result. How does Kelly, at 34 and with more titles than most surfing nations, stay so involved? Surfing’s Nick Carroll trapped him for this interview 
Here’s a shattering blow for all the Surf Industry Conspiracy Theorists: Kelly Slater hasn’t won a Quiksilver-sponsored WCT event since Biarritz in 1996. 
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