Matt Wilkinson and Adrian Buchan scrapped through to round three of J-Bay after losing their opening heats .
Sent to the sudden-death round two, the world number one beat local wild card Steven Sawyer in a low scoring heat, to keep his campaign alive.
“It was a super tough heat, I was so excited I wanted to do 50 backhand rios on every wave and I just kept having little things happen and falling off, luckily I got through it now, now I get another 35 minutes at least out there”
Avoca’s Adrian Buchan used his experience to overcome Hawaii’s Keau Asing, working hard to grind out a decent score on small waves.
Both surfers will to be back in action tonight.
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