Costa Rican Carlos Muñoz placed second in the QS 3.000 of Señoritos and with that he guaranteed himself a place among the top 10 of the QS and is now partially in the CT qualification zone.

The tournament was won by neither a Brazilian nor a Peruvian, nor by a Latin American. The cup went to the relatively unknown Frenchman Gatien Delahaye who, thanks to an aggressive and progressive backside attack, won the event.

Carlos Muñoz started leading the final with a wave of seven points, Gatien responded with two waves of 5 and left the Costa Rican needing four points.

The turning point in the series came when a wave that looked good convinced Muñoz to paddle it and thus he lost priority.

A few minutes later Gatien surfed his best wave, an 8,83 thanks to two nose pick reverses combined with several maneuvers attacking the lip.

The Costa Rican was left looking for a 7,5 that he never found and the final ended with 14,5 for the Frenchman and 13,93.

This was the detail of the series:

“I am very happy to reach the final in Peru in a year in which my goal is to enter the CT, this is undoubtedly an extra motivation to keep trying,” Muñoz told DUKE, who also explained that on the wave he paddled out he saw that the left had no potential and thought about doing an aerial on the right.

The ranking now shows Muñoz in 14th with 4810 points, but with four CT ahead.

Final
Gatien Delahaye defeated Carlos Muñoz

Semis
SF 1: Gatien Delahaye defeated Alex Ribeiro
SF 2: Carlos Muñoz defeated Marcos Correa

Cuartos
CF 1: Alex Ribeiro defeated Carlos Mario Zapata
CF 2: Gatien Delahaye defeated Heitor Alves
CF 3: Carlos Muñoz defeated Marc Larcomare
CF 4: Marcos Correa defeated Ian Gouveia