After the Lebrun brothers, it is the turn of the Dorr-Bourrassaud pair to qualify for the quarter-finals of double at the Worlds in Qatar. Esteban and Florian have easily imposed themselves in three sets. They will play the medal in the next round for their first world championships.
Florian, this celebration, at the end of the match, “yes sir”, what was it?
Florian: “He started in Singapore. In this tournament, we make a comeback of the future. Then, so happy, I thought of my coach who for a very long time always tells me” yes sir “on a lot of things like that. And there, esté,” yes sir “,” yes Mr. Florian “,” Yes Mr. Esteban “. And yes sir. Everything.
It looks like an almost perfect match, right?
“Esteban:” Not far away, yes. I'm going to take up the sentences that I said two days ago. It continues, it's on the momentum. We still prepared this match. We feel better and better. There, it was our first game in Lusail. It was really nice. In addition, we played next to the Chinese. So there is an atmosphere.
Florian: “At one point, I wanted to clog my ears limit. Everything for the Chinese. We, nothing.”
Esteban: “There were the French who were there, we must thank them.”
Have you ever experienced this?
Florian: “Yes in Montpellier, we are 200 in the room for a space of 100 people. But on the other hand, I said to myself so much, the room is large. There is a lot of room and everything. I felt that I could have a little pressure with that. And in fact, I arrived in the play of play. I did, in fact, it is ridiculous. But by extrapolating, caricaturing me. Like the other tables.
Esteban: “Tactically, we muzzled them directly. We capitalized well. Taking the first set, it did us a lot of good. I think that if we had not taken this set-bent, it could have been still a little different. But having won the first set, it put us really well. And tactically, frankly, I really have very happy. Top. “
Florian: “We put them a little doubt. And that's what we can be happy with it too. But we're not going to stop there.”
We see that you both have fun?
Esteban: “This is our trademark. We have a love.”
Florian: “We do not know what is done tomorrow so we take advantage of every moment, with a smile, we have fun. We are playing the ping-pong, it's our job. We have fun at the same time. We win matches at the same time. We are not going to be a face. We are so happy to be there. But hey, now we play something. And that's not too happy.”
And now there is this quarter -final with a medal in play?
Esteban: “It's not the medal, it's just one more match in the competition. Enjoy a little more tonight. See what time we play tomorrow. And dive back into the compete. Finally in the next match rather because the competition, we are already there.”
Florian: “In fact, as we know. Everyone knows it. We are in a medal match, of course. We are not stupid too. But I mean, this is the work upstream and the direct work that we will need. To say, indeed, it is a match like the others. But not only to say, to really appropriate it and to be more. Understanding it.
