While the season has just ended on the WTT circuit, Alexis and Félix Lebrun are preparing to leave for training in an undisclosed location…
2024 will indeed have been a golden year for the Lebrun brothers. And the WTT Finals held last week in Fukuoka allowed them to add another line to their budding legend. Although they did not overcome the pitfall of the first round in singles, Félix and Alexis Lebrun won the doubles tournament, thereby securing first place in the world. A historic first for the two Montpellier residents.
However, the season is not over for the two brothers, who will indeed participate in various Pro A meetings with their club. Above all, if they will be entitled to a few days of rest this week, the bronze medalists of the last Olympic Games are preparing to leave for an intensive training block with their coach, Nathanaël Molin.
The Lebrun brothers need calm
“We are going on an internship for around ten days. We will try to train hard, go back to a somewhat closed place and work on deeper things”confided Félix Lebrun to RMC, adding: “You have to keep these long training periods to come back stronger. If we compete in competition, we develop little things, particularly in delivery service, for example. But for me, who is only at the beginning of my physical development, I also have to take major phases of development and for that I need time. »
And Nathanaël Molin intends to do things well. He therefore wishes to keep the location of the internship secret. “We need to find serenity and calm around them. We're going to isolate ourselves a little. First to rest a little and also to train very hard,he explained, before justifying this drastic choice: “It’s been too long since we trained hard. This has been happening since the preparation of the Games. Here, we are only in post-Olympic management. So yes obviously the players train every day, but there is training and development. They are different things. When you train every day for competition, you maintain your level of fitness, we will say. There, we need to redevelop, to reprogress, to spend time deeply on specific things and for that, we need time and calm.
