This was a little over a year ago. 19-year-old Alexis Lebrun defeated world No. 1 Fan Zhendong in the quarterfinals of the WTT Champions tournament in Macau, China. An exceptional performance that formed part of the epic story of the Lebrun brothers, the siblings from Montpellier who brought table tennis into the spotlight ahead of the Olympics, almost eclipsing the man who dominated the discipline in France for eight years, Simon. Ghazi.
While the two brothers performed one after another and found themselves in the spotlight, Gauzi at the same time was going through a much more difficult phase. In the summer of 2022, the Toulouse native and former world number 8 “sank to the bottom week after week,” he told us last March, before rising to the surface. “In the obscurity of the media, we knew what was going on,” recalls Jean-Nicolas Barelier, national technical director of the French Table Tennis Federation.
Source: Le Parisien
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