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Surfers are still on hold at the Championship Tour's Pipe Pro season opener in Hawaii, with poor conditions halting competition for a third successive day.

Unfavourable wind at Hawaii's Banzai Pipeline has delayed the start of the 2024 Championship Tour opener for surfers including the returning Sally Fitzgibbons.

Ryan Callinan made a winning return while Merewether clubmate Jackson Baker also progressed directly to the round of 32 as the Pipeline Pro and the Championship Tour kicked off on Thursday (AEDT).

Jackson Baker is feeling more comfortable on the world's biggest surfing stage as he prepares for his second Championship Tour season.

Morgan Cibilic's campaign to requalify for the Championship Tour (CT) ended in heartbreak as he fell short with a last-minute wave in quarter-finals of the season finale at Haleiwa, Hawaii. Cibilic, the 2021 world No.5 who missed the inaugural mid-season CT cut this year, needed to progress past the quarter-finals…

The 30-year-old's result was enough to confirm a CT return in 2023.

Merewether surfer Ryan Callinan will return to the scene of his greatest triumph when he tries to lock in a comeback to the Championship Tour at the Ericeira Pro in Portugal from this weekend.

For Jackson Baker, the highlights of his rookie year on the Championship Tour were too many to mention.

Jackson Baker bowed out in back-to-back losses at the Tahiti Pro but he took confidence from facing his fears on the infamous Teahupo'o break on Friday (AEST) as his maiden Championship Tour season came to an end.