Portugal with full diligence on the opening day of the ISA World Cup – Surf
Portugal managed an almost perfect entry and without major problems in the ISA World Cup, which marked this Saturday in Huntington Beach, California. inaugural event dedicated only to the men’s event, the three Portuguese surfers learning, in a journey all will go to the next stage. Frederico Morais was one of the highlights of the day. The Portuguese performance was based on Kikas. The most experienced Portuguese surfer showed high level surfing, winning heat 25 with 13.87 points. A heat in which he left in 2nd place the Brazilian Samuel Pupo (12.46), rookie of the CT 2022. The Puerto Rican Sage Katz (6.00), was thrown into the repechage. An anniversary performance that gave good grades to K, and on a debut wave of excellent 8 points, out of 8 points. This was the second best of the day, surpassed only by the 8.87 points of the Japanese Kanoa Igarashi, who despite representing the Japanese country is competing all at home.
Like Frederico, Guilherme Fonseca, the Portuguese in action, also managed a final triumph in his debut. The western surfer added 10.60 points to win heat 17, beating New Zealander Daniel Farr in second position (7.84). Puerto Rican Dwight Pastrana (4.83) and Lithuanian Tim Wijngaarden (1.37) were taken out for the repechage.
The national performance was just not perfect Guilherme Ribeiro was second because in heat 9, surpassed by the Brazilian and world top, Andre. Nothing that does not prevent the current leader of the national ranking from also following round 2. Jadson to win the heat with 9.07 points, while Gui managed 7.97 points. For the repechage requested by Puerto Rican Ricardo (4.23) and Lithuanian Meskauskauskauskas (2.03).
“We are very pleased with this start”, began by saying João Aranha, president of the Portuguese Surfing Federation. “Although we are perfectly aware that it is still the beginning of a week that is very hard, and the work we knew was in the best way and that was what is fundamental for surfing. Now, it is to continue and fight for our objective as much as possible. Portuguese surfers: In hypotheses, disputes in the games of possible quality and in Paris, they are disputed and there are three possible Olympic Games, if possible, improve that mark”, .
After an opening round with 36 heats, the big surprise was the early fall of the Indonesian Rio Waida to the repechages. Waida was just one of the two top seeds to fail to make it through the opening round, with Peruvian Joaquin del Castillo going on to close the round.
The race direction also advanced with the completion of some steps of round 2, but no Portuguese arrived on the scene. That was postponed to this Sunday, where the competition calendar says that the other warmers of round 2 will be held, where the national trio will be in action, and still in the first repechage round. The women’s event will only go to the water on Monday, as an organization has decided to wait for surfers who are competing in Oceanside, also in California, in an event on the QS circuit.
With the return of 15:30 to return this Sunday, for mainland Portugal, Frederico Morais will be in heat 13 of the North American and world top Kolohe Andino, the Spaniard Ruben Victoria and the Venezuelan Rafael Pereira. In heat 10 will compete Guilherme Fonseca, who will face the Indonesian Dhany Widianto, the Costa Rican Malakai Martínez and the Chinese Zihao Wu.
In heat 6 will be Guilherme Ribeiro, whose second place in his debut, now puts him in a more complicated heat in round 2. Gui will face the Indonesian I Ketut Agus, the Australian and world top Jackson Baker and also the British Logan Nicol. In this round 2, the level is already starting to rise and this is reflected in the fall of the North American Griffin Colapinto and the Japanese Shun Murakami for the repechage, after the five heats that disputed on Saturday.