GWA Wingfoil World Cup Dakhla - Day 2 - Highlights

On the second day of the world cup in Dakhla, the third and concluding stop of the wave discipline on the GWA Wingfoil World Tour, the men again took to the water and began to fill the quarter-final berths. The young Corsican rider Noé Cuyala came out charging and rode out of his skin. The 16-year-old sensation racked up the biggest wave score—9.07 out of 10—and heat total to that point, exploiting better swells and growing breezes. Cape Verde’s Wesley Brito, the winner of the first stop in Ponta Preta and another title contender, took up the challenge. He upped the stakes when he grabbed the top wave score with a 9.33 wave, marked by powered and fluid carving, spiced up with ‘airs’. But then the US 17-year-old, Cash Berzolla, burst on to the stage. The beaten finalist in the second stop in Rio de Janeiro, raised the wingfoil wave riding bar with an utterly spellbinding performance that ended the run of his room-mate, Vinnicius Martins (BRA). France’s Malo Guénolé, 18, who beat Berzolla in Rio to take the win, could not quite match the feats of the young American. But Guénolé’s heat total of 16.03 out of 20 was more than enough to end the strong run of compatriot, Julien Rattotti, and go the quarter finals.