On the evening of November 11, the first round of the men's singles competition of the table tennis WTT regular season challenge new Mesto, Chinese Taipei's famous Zhuang Zhiyuan, faced the 15-year-old Félix Le Brun of France, and the result was that Le Brun won 3-1 and broke out of the big cold, and Zhuang Zhiyuan suffered a round of travel.
Le Brun
As soon as he came up, Le Brun won two consecutive sets 11-5, 11-8, achieving a 2-0 advantage, and the game of three wins in five sets had no way back for Zhuang Zhiyuan.
Zhuang Zhiyuan
In the third set, Zhuang Zhiyuan won 11-8. In the fourth set, the two sides launched a battle, after the tug-of-war between the innings and the match point, as Zhuang Zhiyuan returned the ball, Le Brun won the fourth set 17-15, thus defeating Zhuang Zhiyuan with a big score of 3-1, which can be said to be a big upset.
Born in 1981, Zhuang Zhiyuan is a famous table tennis player, the doubles champion of the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships, making him one of the world champions, at the age of 40, he is still a sword immortal, and is a first-class player in today's men's table tennis.
Born in 2006, French teenager Le Brun is a Chinese straight board play, which is currently only ranked 1068th in the adult group, but it has already won the men's singles championship in the U15 age group of the 2021 European Junior Championships.
In this challenge, in the qualifiers, Le Brun once swept the Japanese team Oshitaka Ōden 3-0, showing good strength, and now defeated Zhuang Zhiyuan 3-1, the future can be expected.