Former event winner Tyler Wright has eliminated Stephanie Gilmore to be the last Australian woman standing in the Roxy Pro on the Gold Coast.

Wright, who had beaten Gilmore earlier in the competition in a non-elimination heat, repeated the dose at Snapper Rocks on Tuesday in the quarter-finals.

The 2013 winner scored a two-wave total of 15.10 out of 20 to move into a semi-final clash against defending world and event champion Carissa Moore.

Wright and Gilmore both scored 8.60 best-scoring waves in the heat but a 6.50 secondary score by the New South Wales surfer was enough to give her the victory over local favourite Gilmore.

After an injury-ravaged 2015 campaign, Gilmore will head to the second stop of the world tour at Bells Beach with some confidence after a solid, if unspectacular, start to the year.

Wright, a two-time championship runner-up, said she was eager to take on in-form Hawaiian Moore.

"I definitely know I want to surf against the best," she said.

"That's where they challenge me."

Moore continued her steady run through the tournament with a win over fellow Hawaiian Malia Manuel.

In deteriorating conditions, the three-time world champion scored a two-wave total of 12.50 to beat Manuel by 2.93 points.

The remaining quarter-finals will be an all-American affair between Sage Erickson and Courtney Conlogue and France's Johanne Defay taking on young gun Tatiana Weston-Webb.

In men's round five heats late on Tuesday, Joel Parkisnon booked a place in the Quiksilver Pro quarter-finals with victory over Brazilian rookie Caio Ibelli.

World champion Adrian de Souza also moved through to the final eight with a narrow win over American newcomer Conner Coffin.

AAP