San Clemente surfers Nathan Yeomans and brothers Patrick and Tanner Gudauskas saw success in early rounds of the 2010 Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay contest—event No. 4 of the Association for Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Tour—at Supertubes in South Africa. Although none of the trio were able to advance into the quarterfinals, all three took down some heavy competition in rounds 1 through 3.

Round 1 saw Nate Yeomans (15.83) pulling off the big win in a heat pitting him against Australians Bede Durbidge (13.74) and Luke Stedman (11.43). The Gudauskas brothers drew the same round 1 heat with Hawaii’s Fred Patacchia. Patacchia came out on top of that heat with a 12.60, followed closely by Tanner Gudauskas with a 12.34. Patrick Gudauskas went down in Round 2 as Aussie Ben Dunn turned in a 16.33 score to his 9.83 and Tanner took out Australian Tom Whitaker, 15.03 to 9.0. Both Tanner Gudauskas and Yeomans surfed their final heats in round 3—Durbidge (14.33) defeated Tanner Gudauskas (8.50) and South African Jordy Smith (15.07) beat Yeomans (9.10). It was J Bay local Jordy Smith who ended up taking the win and cementing his place at the top of the ASP World Tour rankings. Following the contest, Patrick and Tanner are tied at 33 in the World Tour and Yeomans is in a four-way tie at No. 40 with Australians Drew Courtney, Jay Thompson and Mick Campbell.