Despite a very good start to the meeting against the South Korean pair in Jae-Hyun and Lim Jong-Hoon, the Lebrun brothers ended up losing in the final of the Grand Smash de Las Vegas (3 sets at 1).
The Félix brothers (18) and Alexis Lebrun (21) were beaten in the final of the Grand Smash Table Tennis of Las Vegas (United States) on Saturday by the South Koreans in Jae-Hyun and Lim Jong-Hoon. After a superb start of the game, the two French, numbers a world specialty, ended up folding 3 sets at 1 (4-11, 13-11, 11-5, 11-6) in front of the world's fourth pair.
The Lebrun easily dominated the first set and ended up at 10-6 in the second round, when the match switched. The tricolors lacked five second-hand balls before giving in on the first of the South Korean, which then unrolled during the 3rd and 4th sets. This is the first time that a non -Chinese pair has been duplicated in a large SMASH, the most raised WTT tournament category created in 2022 and which has four occurrences per year since the past season.
Félix Lebrun still in the running
The Lebrun brothers, European champions and bronze medalists at the Mondiales in doubles in May, had dominated An Jae-Hyun and Lim Jong-Hoon in the 2nd round of the first big Smash of the season in Singapore in February, before losing this same pair in the final of the WTT Star Conten in Ljubljana at the end of June.
Félix Lebrun has to play again Saturday at the end of the day (on the night of Saturday to Sunday in France) the semi-final of the single tournament against the Chinese Wang Chuqin (world n.2).
