At 21:30 Beijing time on January 28, the WTT Star Challenge Goa ushered in a men's singles final against the top seed Brazilian star Hugo and the second seed French 17-year-old Felix Lebrun. Previously, Hugo eliminated South Korea's Lim Jong-hoon, Sweden's main player Carlberg and Germany's world champion Ocharov to advance to the final, Lebrun defeated Moregard, African brother Aruna and Francesca advanced to the final, both of them were in good shape, and finally Felix Lebrun reversed Hugo Calderano 4-2 from 0-2 down to win the championship, with a score of 9-11, 9-11, 13-11, 11-0, 15-13, 11-7 in six games. Details are as follows:
In the first game, the two played fiercely, and Hugo handled the key ball better in the final game, winning the first game 11-9. In the second game, Hugo led 5-1 at the beginning and 9-6 in the middle game, and was chased to 9-9, but still won another game 11-9. The big score is 2-0 ahead. The third game was more tortuous, the two sides started 2-2, and Hugo fell behind 4-7 in the middle game, but he later chased 7-8 Lebrun to ask for a timeout. After the timeout, Hugo scored 10-8 to take the lead, but Felix Lebrun chased it to 10-10, and Hugo did not take the opportunity to lose the game 11-13. In the fourth game, Lebrun directly gave Hugo an 11-0, and the two sides played 2-2.
In the crucial fifth game, the scores of the two sides rose alternately until 13-13, and then Lebrun seized the opportunity to win two points in a row 15-13 to win another game, so that Lebrun led Hugo 3-2. In the sixth game, Lebrun led 4-2 at the beginning, and Hugo chased it to 4-4, but then Lebrun won three points in a row to take a 7-4 lead, and Hugo asked for a timeout. After the pause, he scored a point 5-7, and then Lebrun took the initiative to take a 9-5 lead in the final game, 10-6 to get the match point, and 11-7 to win the sixth game to defeat Hugo 4-2 to win the men's singles championship of the Star Competition.
Felix Lebrun is only 17 years old, has improved so quickly, is currently ranked eighth, and will move up to sixth next week after this tournament, knocking out top seed Hugo, and playing an 11-0 in the fourth game, which is really impressive. It's a pity that Hugo didn't bite off in the third and fifth games. In this way, the national table tennis at the Paris Olympics must pay attention to him, this young player is very powerful, don't you say?
Congratulations again to Felix Lebrun for winning the men's singles championship of the WTT Star Challenge Goa, and Hugo for winning the men's singles runner-up.