Eight-time world champion Stephanie Gilmore, Tyler Wright and Sally Fitzgibbons were all knocked out in an opening round of Australian carnage at the Tahiti Pro, but Isabella Nichols survived a guillotine to live another day.
Only the women's opening round was run on an inconsistent day of surfing in Teahupo'o, with no surfer able to get a two-wave total above 10 in the tricky, six- to eight-foot conditions.