A 10th lay day has been called at the season-ending women's World Surf League event in Maui with just three days of the competition window remaining.
Tiny swells on Tuesday at Honolua Bay forced organisers to make the call, meaning just one day of competition has been possible since the scheduled start of the event on Friday, November 21.
The competition must be completed by Friday, and given the Maui Pro is a non-mobile event, competitors may be forced to make the most in small swells to complete the championship.
Organisers however say they are confident conditions will improve by Friday.
"We're keeping our eye on the forecast and it's still looking like great conditions are coming for deciding a World Champion," WSL Women's Commissioner Jessi Miley-Dyer said.
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"The anticipation is brutal but we know it will be well worth the wait once more."
American Courtney Conlogue will compete in the sudden-death fourth round soon after competition restarts.
If she loses, Hawaiian Carissa Moore, who holds a 900-point lead over Conlogue, will be world champion again.
Moore has already reached the quarters and even if she was to lose there, Conlogue would have to win the event to claim the world title.
If Moore loses her quarter-final and Conlogue finishes runner-up, it would be a tie and they would have a surf-off to decide the world champion.
Conlogue would also have to win Maui if Moore reaches the semis, while Moore claims the world title if she makes the final.
The pair are the only two still mathematically in the running for the championship.
Australian Tyler Wright faces Hawaiian Malia Manuel in the fourth round while fellow Aussies Sally Fitzgibbons and Nikki Van Dijk have already progressed to the quarter-finals.
