Lucas Didier in silver after his defeat against the Belgian favourite Laurens Devos in the final

He didn’t imagine himself in the final

He did not imagine himself in the final, to the point of having planned only one t-shirt for this Saturday, where he faced in the morning in the semi-finals the Australian of Chinese origin Ma Lin, double silver medalist in Tokyo. But the native of Chesnay (Yvelines) had exploded the room by snatching the victory after five breathless sets (3-2: 10-12, 11-9, 7-11, 12-10, 11-8).