DAY 1: 10/18/2020
The first waves are already breaking at El Frontón

The World Cup Gran Canaria Frontón King 2020 begins in Gáldar,
with the Canarian representation making a difference

The World Cup Gran Canaria Frontón King has started with the best bodyboard show in the world and the first 16 sleeves in the open category and 3 in the women's category. With the optimal conditions for sports and a blue summer sky in the middle of October, 'La Bestia' has once again roared in this Galdar enclave to test the best maneuvers of the 64 riders competing in this edition, totally safe and with a demanding protocol to comply with all sanitary and hygienic guarantees against covid-19.
On this first day, boys and girls have tried the powerful wave of El Frontón with some first heats full of spectacle and heart attack maneuvers, incredible waves that were the scene of tubes, 360, backflip and jumps on the crest of locals and internationals in a Sunday at 25 degrees marked by healthy sportsmanship.
Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Portugal, Ireland, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Peru, France and Morocco have been just some of the countries that have had representation on the opening day of El Frontón, which takes this corner of the coast of Gáldar to across the globe through sports.
The riders started the morning in the open category, in a first action inaugurated by the French Maxime Castillo, who led the heat with a victory adjusted to the local Gabriel Molina and Pablo Hernández. The Galdar wave was also tested by several of the most recognized riders in this championship, such as Guillermo Cobo with 9.90 points, Jonathan Vega with two outstanding waves that put him at the head of his sleeve, a great performance in the water by Borja Granados with a 7.5 and a 6 in their best waves and a heat that put Aitor Ojeda and Javier Domínguez in check with a score very close between them.
The canary Omar Marrero shone in his confrontation with ‘La Bestia’ with an 8 in a perfect and very long tube that put the competitors who were watching the sleeve on their feet and raised applause among the attendees. The heat that Marrero led was one of the most attractive of the morning, with 14 points for Samuel Brito's maneuvers, in a score only surpassed by Eduardo Rodríguez, with two waves of 7 and 7.6 that gave him the victory of his sleeve.
Some of the winners of previous editions in their climb to the title, such as William Luján, Dailos Rodríguez, Alex Sebastian, Daute Perdomo, the three-time Rey del Fronton, Amaury Lavernhe, or the French Pierre Louis Costés, who in the last edition starred in a final that was decided in the last minutes

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