Defending world surf champion Molly Picklum has ended the sport's hottest streak in 16 years, the Australian defeating teenage tyro Erin Brooks at the famed Supertubos beach on the Portuguese coast.
The quarter-final victory lifted Picklum to second in this year's live rankings as the season nears its conclusion, behind Hawaiian five-time world champ Carissa Moore.
But there was disappointment for the two Australian men in action at Peniche on Tuesday, with Ethan Ewing and Morgan Cibilic, who had his 27th birthday in the three-day gap between races, both beaten in their quarter-finals.
