Mount Maunganui surfer Alex Dive is out of the running in the $30,000 Association of Surfing Professionals Billabong Pro Junior Asia at Keramas river mouth in Indonesia.
Alex placed third in his second round four man heat on Thursday, which was not good enough to advance.
Alex Dive was not good enough to progress to the third round of a junior pro event in Indonesia.
All 16 round two heats were completed in well shaped 1.25m surf with the pick of the competitors, international pair Guimarares Yan (Brazil) and Beyrick De Vries (South Africa).
Both are highly rated surfers from their respective ASP Pro Junior circuits and both saw enjoyed competing in Bali against many of the world's top Pro Junior surfers.
"It's a great event for me to mix it with the international surfers," says Brazil's Yan, who lives in Rio.
"There's unbelievable surf everywhere here and to surf with just three others at Keramas is amazing."
Durban's 17 year-old De Vries is presently number four on the ratings in South Africa and he put on a Jordy Smith inspired performance posting the day's top scoring single ride of a 9.1 along with the highest heat tally of the day of 16.75.
"Jordy is our man in surfing and we all look up to him so I suppose his win in J'Bay and the fact he is now number one in the world has us all lifting our surfing and proud to be South African," says De Vries.
"The waves here are high performance, it's my favourite wave in the world and I just love the place - it's paradise."
Of the local Indonesian surfers, many surfed well with Putu Anggara (Nusa-Lombogon) and Gazali Hamzah (Sumbawa) the stand-outs by both winning through to round three.
Anggara is a stylish goofy foot surfer and looked in full control carving a series of well-executed back-hand bottom turns to win his heat defeating Australia's Oscar Scanes.
Japanese and Australian surfers were also prominent, led by Matt Banting (AUS), Chris Salisbury (AUS) and Thomas Woods (AUS) along with Japanese pair Yasui Takumi and Kurokoshi Taiki, who were both impressive.
Thomas Woos (Gold Coast/Australia) competed strongly late in the day, with his fast and super fluent yet powerful style coping with ease on the shallow lower tide.
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