Which brings us to ponder, is surfing behind the times, or ahead? Do women deserve equal prize money, such as that awarded by the US Open of tennis since 1971? Or should audience size, demand and market forces come in to play, as Djokovic advocates?

Tyler Wright earned $60k for her Gold Coast win versus Wilkinson’s $100k, while the losing finalists for Roxy and Quik pros – as every event on the Samsung Galaxy Championship Tour received $30k and $50k respectively.

Like tennis, the men do spend more time actually performing. While mens’ tennis matches are best of 5 sets, womens’ are best of 3, meaning that they actually get more per hour of court time than men. The shortest path to a men’s WCT event victory is to win 6 heats, versus 5 for the women.

There are 18 female surfers in the field versus 36 men, meaning the purse for the women is equal per surfer; a Mens’ WCT event purse, at $551k is double the womens’ at $275k.

But whatever, that’s not making headlines. The headlines are the winners holding up cheques of unequal value.

Is this an outrage?

Or, is it in fact the case that anyone who gets paid tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for winning a single sporting event should consider themselves extremely lucky, considering around 4 billion people worldwide currently live on less than $50/month.

Should then, the male victor merely consider himself more lucky than his already-lucky female counterpart, rather than her feeling the victim of an injustice?

Could feminist ire be better directed championing the cause of the 4 billion? Rather than furthering the position of already wealthy sportspeople?

Do let us know your thoughts.