The Australian was mathematically crowned world champion after her advance to the semifinals, after the elimination of her most direct rivals, Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) and Courtney Conlogue (USA)

Australian Tyler Wright won her second world title on Friday during the Maui Women's Pro, the last race of the World Surf League Championship Tour season, which is being held this week on the waves of Honolua Bay on the Hawaiian island of Maui.

The early elimination of number 1 of the Jeep Leadership ranking, Sally Fitzgibbons of Australia, put all the excitement in the duel between Wright and Courtney Conlogue (USA), second and third respectively classified in the general. The elimination of the latter in fourth round by the Australian also Nikki Van Dijk and the advance of the Australian to semi-finals, after defeating the wildcard of the Brisa Hennessy event of Hawaii in quarter finals, crowned Wright as the 2017 world champion.

The Maui Women's Pro continues with the semifinals in Honolua Bay, where Tyler Wright will seek to revalidate his event win last year and where he will face six times the world champion, Stephanie Gilmore. The Billabong Pipe Masters, from 8 to 20 December, in the prestigious (and dangerous) wave of Pipeline (Oahu) - considered one of the five best waves of the world - will decide the fate of the world crown of the Men's Championship Tour of the World Surf League. Four surfers arrive at this last test as a win-win candidate at an unprecedented exciting season end: John John Florence (HAW), 53,350 points; Gabriel Medina (BRA), 50,250 points; Jordy Smith (ZAF), 47,600 points; and Julian Wilson (AUS), 45,300 points.