Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Friday November 22, 2024 at 7:19 p.m.
Qualified for the doubles final of the WTT Finals, Alexis and Félix Lebrun celebrated with a sumo dance that caused a sensation.
Alexis and Félix Lebrun will compete for the doubles title during the WTT Finals, Saturday in Fukuoka (Japan), against the Japanese Shunsuke Togami and Hiroto Shinozuka. The two Tricolores eliminated their compatriots Esteban Dorr and Florian Bourrassaud on Friday in the last four (12-10, 11-5, 11-3). And if the latter had celebrated their success in the quarter-finals with a reference to Dragon Ball, by reproducing, index against index, the famous fusion gesture, the Lebrun brothers, who came out in the 8th round in singles, also celebrated their victory with a reference to the host country, on a sumo dance, a true institution in Japan.
“It’s fun for us to find nods to local culture”
““Este” (Esteban Dorr, editor’s note) and “Flo” (Florian Bourrassaud, editor’s note) had set the bar high with the “fusion” celebration yesterday! It amuses us to find nods to the local culture of the host country “, Félix first explained, before his older brother also spoke on the subject: “We have several in our “classical” repertoire but this one we had prepared especially for the Japan.” Enough to contribute to the popularity of the bronze medalists of the last Olympics in the land of the rising sun, where they are better known and recognized, as a reporter from Nippon TV told L'Equipe.
“The general Japanese public really discovered the Lebruns in Paris this summer, during the team match for the bronze medal. A year ago, we still called them the glasses brothers, today we know their name. He There were even two pages about them in The Kingdom of Ping Pong, our reference magazine”, confided to L'Équipe Shotaro Otsu, who is “sure that next year, they will be on the cover, they are already stars in China.”
