In the North, tricolor table tennis dislocates, “not in the shade but alongside” of the Lebrun brothers
In the wake of the Lebrun brothers, Olympic medalists at the Paris 2024 Games and enjoying great notoriety, Montpellier has erected in the capital of French table tennis. But behind Félix Lebrun (18, 6e global) and his elder Alexis (21 years old, 8e), leaders – with the experienced Simon Gauzy (30, 44e) – of an ambitious French team at the world championships in Qatar (from May 17 to 25, in Doha), other young rides sharpen their reverse. No less than seven tricolor players appear in the world top 100 at the start of the Worlds. “A hyperexciting density”, The president of the French Table Tennis Federation (FFTT), Gilles Erb.
At the antipodes of the Hérault club and its heroes, it is in the North that a new stronghold emerges. The Bruille-lez-Marchiennes club, a town of 1,400 inhabitants, thus aligns Thibault Poret, 33e global at 20, and the country’s child, Flavien Coton, 56e global at 17. With these two spearheads, the Bruillois spanned, Tuesday, April 29, their Lille neighbors in the semi-final return of Pro B (3-0), leaving no set to their opponents.
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