Among the top 10, only Slater remains

The Boost Mobile Pro will resume today, after a day off Friday, with a surfing marathon beginning at 8 a.m.

The Foster’s ASP World Tour event at Lower Trestles near San Clemente will open with Round 4 and conclude with the final at about 3 p.m.

The sixth of 10 World Tour contests -- the only one on the U.S. mainland -- has been rife with upsets as nine of the top 10 surfers on the tour’s 45-man roster have been eliminated.

Kelly Slater, ranked No. 4, is the lone survivor and if he were to win the event he would move to No. 2, behind Australia’s Mick Fanning.

Fanning was knocked out in Round 3 by Ventura sensation Dane Reynolds, 19, who is an event wild card and will be a rookie on next year’s World Tour.

“I know Mick holds the No. 1 seed, but I tried not to really think about it in that way,” said Reynolds, who a day earlier knocked out No. 2 Taj Burrow. “I just did what the waves called for.”

Against Fanning, Reynolds registered the highest single-wave score of the contest: a 9.93 out of a possible 10.

Reynolds draws C.J. Hobgood, the 2001 world champion, in Round 4. Slater, who is gunning for a ninth world title, draws Hawaii’s Fred Patacchia.

A slight improvement in conditions is expected, with waves measuring to about head-high at the legendary point break.

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