Smaller surf leads to lay day in Fiji

Organisers of the Fiji Women's Pro have called a lay day due to a drop in swell.

Inconsistent surf has forced a lay day to be called at the Fiji Women's Pro on Wednesday.

Swell dropped off significantly overnight at Tavarua's Cloudbreak, the fifth stop on the World Surf League tour.

"I think there's a lot of swell coming and so we're going to wait for something better," WSL women's commissioner Jessi Miley-Dyer said.

When competition resumes Australia's Laura Enever will battle Hawaii's Coco Ho in a sudden-death fourth-round elimination heat, while Tyler Wright will face France's Johanne Defay.

Defending champion Sally Fitzgibbons, who suffered a perforated eardrum in round three on Tuesday, has gone straight through to the quarter-finals along with Victorian Nikki Van Dijk.