And two! After the surprise Florian Bourrassaud/Esteban Dorr on Thursday, the Lebrun brothers joined their compatriots this Friday morning at the semi-finals of the World Championships in Doha (Qatar). Solid than their Swedish opponents, Félix and Alexis managed the important moments of the match to win three rounds at one (11-9, 11-7, 8-11, 11-5). The meeting was hung and sometimes very tactical, but in this little game, it is the Montpellier who are the smartest. Numbers A Double Worlds, they will face Taiwanese Kao Cheng-Jui and Lin Yun-ju (n.6) this Saturday for a place in the final. In the event of a defeat, they will be bronze medalists.
From the start of the meeting, the brothers quickly took over the opposing pair. More precise and powerful, they did not let their opponents breathe who rest on the errors to garner points. But in the hot moments, they were the ones who were the most sharp, which allowed them to pocket the first two sleeves without trembling too much. At a round of the end, we told ourselves that they had a boulevard to qualify. It was without counting on the Swedish awakening, which largely raised their level of play at the end of the third round. Thanks to two winning strokes, they reduced the two -round gap to one.
The last round was one -way. Pocked by the loss of the third set, the Lebrun raised the cursor and quickly gave up at 7-2. A crippling gap that the Scandinavians have never managed to fill. After their simple disappointments, Alexis and Félix were able to exult and definitely form an almost irresistible pair after their victory in the finals last year. But the road to the final will not be a long quiet river, they will meet the Taiwanese pair, which brought the Chinese to the quarterfinals. On the other side of the painting, the other French pair will also play for a place in the final. Why not for a Franco-French duel?
