Félix and Alexis Lebrun, respectively 7th and 9th in the ranking this week, each lose a place after the Doha Worlds. Simon Gauzy operates a nice comeback and climbs to 35th row.
Félix Lebrun continues his descent in the classification this year and retrograde this week in 7th place in the international ranking, a position he had already occupied in October of last year, after his defeat in the round of 16 of the Grand Smash in China, before reaching the best ranking of his career (4th) a month later. Bronze medalist in doubles at the world championships, with his brother Alexis, Félix Lebrun disappeared from the simple table from the round of 16, in Doha, beaten by the Korean year Jaehyun, 17th in the world.
The cadet of the Lebrun siblings fed the secret hope of seeing the solo competition further. The disappointment is all the greater since it seemed to have found sensations at the table. Frustration is necessarily less present on the side of his older brother, Alexis, who began competition with uncertainties to lift around his health. The Frenchman was barely recovered from an injury in his hand that he had inflicted himself in front of his brother, in the final of the French championships.
An eight -seat voucher for “Simon les emotions”
Forced to forfeit the 2nd round of the Worlds, Alexis Lebrun lost a place in the standings and finds himself 9th this week. The most beautiful progression is to be credit for Simon Gauzy, author of a remarkable course in Qatar. The Haut-Garonnais sent the world n ° 2 Wang Chuqin to the strings, delivering a very high level match to lead two rounds to nothing, very close to the eighth feat.
But back to earth was just as brutal as the aggressiveness he will have shown in the first two sets, and the Frenchman ended up bow four rounds to two. Simon Gauzy (“Simon les emotions” as our presenter Ping likes to call him, Lémuel) went back to 35th place thanks to a leap in eight positions in the standings, just behind Thibault Poret, who stagnates in 33rd place. In the top 100, Flavien Coton is 54th, Lilian Bardet 71th, Joe Seyfried and Esteban Dorr 98th and 100th.
