For Kelly Slater, it’s party time

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It figured that Kelly Slater would lose in the fourth round of the Billabong Pro Mundaka in Spain, The Times’ Pete Thomas blogs. After all, Slater is only human, although he does things that cause some people to wonder about that.

Thomas has more on Slater, who clinched his ninth World Tour championship early this morning after winning a third-round heat against Eneko Acero, and can now breeze through the final two contests minus the pressure of a title race.

-- Debbie Goffa