Carissa Moore, Chelsea Hedges, Lee Ann Curren, Silvana Lima, Steph Gilmore, Laura Enever, and more of the finest females in the world tear apart the opening rounds of the Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic.

Laura Enever, Ellie Jean Coffey, and Tyler Wright rip apart Curl Curl beach near Sydney in the Oakley Trials of the Commonwealth Bank Layne Beachley Classic—a women's World Championship Tour event.

A lay day has been called for the richest ASP Women's World Tour event, the Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic in Dee Why, Sydney today.

The Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic will welcome the world’s best female surfers this Wednesday, April 21, to the world-renowned Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia, for the next stop on this season’s thrilling ASP Dream Tour.

Surfing Australia is proud to announce that Layne Beachley has accepted a position on the Board of Surfing Australia concurrently with Wayne 'Rabbit' Bartholomew also accepting the position as the first ever Patron of Surfing Australia.

"The odds were stacked against us as the World had us needing a combination score but in classic Aussie style we kept fight to the end to claim the Ashes," said Layne Beachley.

While she's not our favorite female ripper in the world, but you can't knock Layne Beachley's big wave prowess...

Stephanie Gilmore capped off her second World Title, in a row, with a win at the Billabong Maui Pro and a Vans Triple Crown Title. With the 2008 ASP Women's World Tour season now complete, it's easy to see that Steph is the woman to beat in women's surfing.

Those two teenagers belong to a new generation of women who are shaking up the professional surfing establishment. Most are still in high school and remain a few years from competing full-time for prize money. But with a combination of powerful moves and progressive aerials, they have signaled a new era of performance in the sport.

Melanie Bartels (HAW), 26, current No. 10 on the 2008 ASP Women’s World Tour, went ballistic today during her Round 1 heat, comboing her opponents with an incredible 18.40 out of a possible 20 to advance through to the Quarterfinals of the Roxy Pro at Sunset Beach.

After dropping in on fellow Reef Hawaiian Pro Women's finalist—and Seven Time World Champion—Layne Beachley and effectively ruining any chance she had at winning the final, the ASP has announced that it is going to begin an interview process that will determine if there will be punishment for the act.

MANLY BEACH, Australia (Friday, October 10, 2008) – Layne Beachley (AUS), 36, former seven-time ASP Women’s World Champion and current No. 3 on the 2008 ASP Women’s World Tour ratings, has officially announced her retirement from full-time competition, effective at the end of the year.

Layne Beachley has booze to thank for her long-running relationship with INXS drummer Kirk Pengilly...

Beachley had met her mother just after winning the first of her world titles. Maggie Gardner told Beachley that when she was 17, and newly arrived in Sydney from Scotland in 1971, she was date-raped after she accepted a dinner invitation from the manager of a Kings Cross modelling agency.

Stormy surf in the five foot (1.5 metre) range was on offer this morning at Barra da Tijuca in Rio De Janeiro, but heavy rains and onshore winds forced event organizers at the Billabong Girls Pro Rio to call another lay day today.