Tenerife PWA Tag 5
Die erste Runde der Single Elimination der Männer wurde bei schwierigen leichten Winden und wechselhaften Wellen abgeschlossen.
Nach einigen Tagen Slalom X trat am 5. Tag des 2025 Playa Surf CBbC Hotel Tenerife El Médano Windsurf Grand Slam die Wave-Fleet der Männer zum ersten Mal in dieser Woche in den Wettkampf ein, wodurch die erste Runde der Single Elimination unter relativ schwierigen Bedingungen abgeschlossen werden konnte. Dennoch gelang es den weltbesten Wave-Surfern, einige magische Momente zu produzieren, sodass nach 16 Minuten, in denen sie ihre beiden besten Wellen verbinden und ihren besten Sprung landen mussten, nur noch die 32 besten Männer übrig blieben.
Highlights from Day 5 in Tenerife
Wave Men’s
Adam Warchol (Quatro / Goya Windsurfing / MFC) set the highest heat score of the day in Heat 5 as he racked up 18.47 points after linking together the joint single highest wave score of the day - 7 points - and also landing the third highest jump of the day - 5.73 points for a backloop to comfortably progress. Meanwhile, Jochen Stolz (Bruch Boards / Simmer Sails) used his local knowledge to good effect to earn the third highest score of the day to deservedly advance.
Elsewhere, Arthur Arutkin (Flikka / GUNSAILS / Black Project Fins) was involved in the opening heat of the day and the Frenchman booked his place in the next round with the second highest heat of the day - 16.64 points - with two solid wave scores inflicting much of the damage. Laurin Schmuth (Goya Windsurfing / MFC) secured the other qualifying position as he edged out Simon Thule (PATRIK / PATRIK Sails) and Finn Mellon (Quatro / Goya Windsurfing).
Moritz Mauch (Simmer / Simmer Sails) was once again one of the standouts in the wave riding department with his vertical, dynamic approach going down well with the judges. The 29-year-old equalled Warchol’s 7 point ride to split the highest single wave of the day and won Heat 6 ahead of Henri Kolberg (Naish / Naish Sails / Maui Ultra Fins), who landed an almost planing backloop to deny Lucas Meldrum (Duotone Windsurfing) a place in the next round.
Anton Richter (JP / NeilPryde / Maui Ultra Fins) managed to come out on top of a close heat in Heat 2 as the young German won the heat ahead of Tim van Dam Sanchidrian (Bruch Boards / Bruch Sails), who also progressed after pipping Baptiste Cloarec (RRD / RRD Sails) to a place in the round of 32 by just 0.13 of a point. The Spaniard’s opening wave - 6.66 points - proved to be the difference despite Cloarec landing a no-handed backloop.
In Heat 3, Mike Friedl (Goya Windsurfing), who earned his first top ten result in Gran Canaria last month, safely negotiated his way into the next round as he landed a 5.87 point backloop - the highest scoring jump of the day - to progress, while Hayata Ishii (Quatro / Goya Windsurfing / MFC) secured the other qualifying position.
In the other three heats of the first round Alessio Stillrich (Bruch Boards / Bruch Sails) went on to win Heat 4 ahead of young local boy Walter Costanzo (JP / NeilPryde) who also advances. 17-year-old Ryu Noguchi (Starboard / Severne Sails) and 20-year-old Esteban de Cruz (Goya Windsurfing) are two of the youngest sailors to advance into the top 32 after negotiating their way through Heat 7, while Jules Denel (Tabou / GA Sails) made no mistakes in Heat 8 to comfortably win the heat against reigning Master’s world champion Mike Friedl (Goya Windsurfing).
The forecast doesn’t look great on paper tomorrow with just 10-16 knots currently being predicted, however, some of the local still think it has the potential to be okay, so we will just have to wait and see. The Wave skippers’ meeting will be held at 10:00 (GMT+1) on Wednesday morning with a first possible start at 11am, while the Slalom X fleet will once again have their skippers’ meeting at 12pm with a first possible start at 13:00.