Maui win means everything to Tyler Wright

She's already world champion however nothing but a win will do for Tyler Wright in Maui.

Tyler Wright

Australia's only nominee for the 2017 Laureus World Sports Awards is surfing champion Tyler Wright. (AAP)

Tyler Wright has already been crowned world champion, but she has one more title to claim before she finishes off her incredible year: The Maui Pro in Hawaii.

Wright has swept all before her in 2016, winning four of the nine events and reaching at least the quarter-finals in all but one.

However she has never won at the prestigious season-ending stop and is determined to put her name in the record books as a champion where her previous best result came in 2014.

It was also her most heartbreaking Maui event.

That year she lost the final to Hawaii's Carissa Moore and the result cost her a shot at the world title in what would have been a surf off with fellow Australian Stephanie Gilmore.

Wright is determined to make sure this year is a different result though, especially now she has been freed from the pressure of trying to win the title.

"I've just got to do my job," Wright told AAP last month.

"It's what I've done all year.

"I'll go there with the same mindset to win every heat and win every final."

Since claiming the title in France she has enjoyed a lay off from the sport but has been kept busy with a plethora of media interviews, her title win catapulting her to stardom at home.

Wright will start her Maui campaign against South African Bianca Buitendag in her first-round heat, along with a yet to be named wildcard.

Wright is one of six Australians to compete at the Maui event - all having wrapped up their qualification for next year's series.

Sally Fitzgibbons and Keely Andrew face off in the first-round non-elimination heat, while Nikki Van Dijk takes on the USA's Courtney Conlogue and Chelsea Tuach of Barbados.

Laura Enever takes on last year's winner Moore and the USA's Lakey Petersen, while four-time Australian champion Stephanie Gilmore faces locals Malia Manuel and Coco Ho.


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