In Olympic shape!
A little more than two weeks after the 2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Busan (Republic of Korea) where the French team reached the final (beaten by China) thanks in particular to the performances of Félix and Alexis Lebrun , the two brothers keep the rhythm this week during the Grand Smash, a major event of the table tennis season.
The day after the defeat of Alexis Lebrun and Jianan Yuan against the Chinese pair Sun Yingsha - Wang Chuqin in the round of 16 of the mixed doubles, the Lebrun brothers qualified this Wednesday morning for the quarter-finals of the men's doubles tournament. by dismissing the Austrian pair Robert Gardos-Daniel Habesohn in 4 sets.
Facing the double European champions, the brothers lost the first set (10-12) before moving up a gear in the next three rounds (11-9, 11-8, 11-8).
The Tricolores delighted the public with shots of which they have the secret.
This success validates their choice to have remained in South Korea the following week of the Worlds rather than returning to France to make a round trip and play with their team from the Nîmes-Montpellier Alliance the summit match of Pro A against AS Pontoise-Cergy.
Deprived of their magic pair, the Southerners lost (3-1).