Surfers Jack Robinson and Molly Picklum in double win for Australia at WSL Sundown Seashore Professional in Hawaii

In a clear sweep for Australian browsing, NSW surfer Molly Picklum has defended her title on the Sundown Seashore Professional in Hawaii whereas WA’s Jack Robinson has taken prime spot within the males’s.

Picklum stated going up in opposition to one other 21-year-old in Hawaiian native Bettylou Sakura Johnson in what has been described as a generational shift for ladies’s browsing was “fairly unbelievable”. 

“We’ll look again and realise how large this second is and the push [for women] that we’re doing proper now,” she stated.

Western Australia’s Jack Robinson, 26, beat Japan’s Konoa Igarashi to take out the highest spot within the males’s titles, and is now ranked world quantity two.

Robinson scored a near-perfect 9.87 for his finest wave within the ultimate.

“I am tremendous stoked and grateful for this second,” he stated.

“Thanks, Sundown.”

A close to 10-point journey

Picklum, who’s now world primary within the ladies’s rankings, scored a formidable 9.67 wave in in the present day’s semifinal.

“I threw all the pieces at it and sort of fell out of the sky,” she stated.

Picklum grew to become the primary girl to get an ideal 10 on the well-known Pipeline break simply over per week in the past within the Pipe Professional semifinals, additionally in opposition to Johnson.

“It is actually cool that we’ve got one another as a result of we would not be pushing so onerous if it wasn’t for one another,” she stated.

After in the present day’s win, Picklum declared she could be in for an enormous night time of celebrating.

WSL commentator Joe Turpel stated having two such younger ladies going head-to-head was a defining second for the game.

“For seeing this youth cost and [just] a complete generational shift.”

The third stage of the World Surf League Championship Tour will kick off in Portugal in early March earlier than heading to Bells Seashore in Victoria later that month.