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Competition at the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast recommenced today after 11 consecutive lay days and ran through Round 2 at Snapper Rocks.

Compliments to the Commish! At dawn the only options appeared a move to D'Bah or yet another layday, however they resisted both and sent the women out around midday.

Silvana Lima delivered the most dominant performance of the Roxy Pro to date, posting the first Perfect 10 of season in her heat against Sally Fitzgibbons. 

The surf might be terrible up on the Gold Coast but the surfing is anything but. Geordie Tarren reports in with a clip of electrifying freesurfing.

Yesterday the women were forced to complete Round 2 of the Roxy Pro in tiny waves at Snapper Rocks. It was a long way from Round 2 in 2014 when the women scored the best surf of the contest in a day heralded as a red letter day for women's surfing.

It was the first elimination round of the World Surf League and despite the diminutive surf the women put up huge performances.

2015 is Year Zero for the World Surfing League and today was Day One. Although the surf didn't match the weightiness of the occasion the action made up for it.

Photos from the first day of competition on the newly-minted World Surf League.

Kolohe Andino wins the Australian Open over Tahitian Mateai Hiquily. Laura Enever takes out the women's event.

"No contest singlets, no ratings points, just one really big wave."