The World Surf League Championship Tour event, which will run from November 26 to December 6 at Honolua Bay, will be the first time the former St Johns student would of surfer competitively in 17 months, after her ongoing battle with chronic fatigue.

After winning both the 2016 and 2017 world titles, 2018 was supposed to be Wright's best season yet, as she chased her third straight crown.

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But that all changed when she went on a trip to Africa with Mick Fanning to film a Rip Curl 'Search' in 2018.

During that excursion, she contracted a virus, which forced her to pull out of J-Bay, and, after five days in an African hospital, fly home, where doctors couldn't seem to pinpoint what was wrong with her.

After weeks of severe pain and vomiting, Wright was finally diagnosed and treated for Influenza A.

While the flu is considered a common and not-especially-fearsome virus, Wright's version was extreme and put the elite athlete in a state of mental and physical anguish.

When she finally got over the hump of the virus, Wright began to suffer great exhaustion - it was unrelenting, so much so doctors diagnosed her with the post-viral syndrome, which shuts the body down on every level.

Initially, Wright had hoped to be back in competitive shape by the 2019 J-Bay Pro, after officially withdrawing for the first half of the season.

That contest came and went, as Wright deemed that she was still physically incapable of competing at the highest level in mid-July.

Over the following months, she has began to feel more like herself, allowing the Culburra Beach Boardrider to surf and train with greater frequency.

Finally, after 17 months removed from the competitive surf, Wright has signalled her intentions to make her grand return to the Championship Tour.

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Staying true to form, Wright have a large influence on who wins the 2019 world title, as she is expected to battle contenders Carissa Moore, Lakey Peterson and Caroline Marks in the early rounds, due to her lowly ranking.

This comes a week after Tyler's younger brother Mikey opened up and discussed his ongoing back issues, which has seen him miss most of the 2019 too.

Tyler's older brother Owen, currently sitting in seventh in the world rankings, will also compete in Hawaii, at the Pipeline Masters from December 8-20 - with him set to battle countrymen Jack Freestone and Italy's Leonardo Fioravanti in round one.