SOUTH African Greg Emslie defeated Californian Tim Curran in the opening heat of the day at the G-SHOCK ASP Billabong MSF World Championship tour surfing event. Emslie ranked 33rd outsmarted Japan Pro winner Curran ranked eight, using a combination of superior wave choice and radical manoeuvres to gain victory. Emslie will now face Australian Brendan Powell in round four of competition and will be favoured to win given his local knowledge of Supertubes, with Sean Holmes needing to upstage top seed Mark Occhilupo in heat eight of round three in order to advance to round four.