Alexis Lebrun

Alexis Lebrun is a right-handed French table tennis player and a two-time French national champion. As of April 2023, he is the top-ranked French table tennis player. He rose meteorically from a world ranking of 1050 in January 2022 to 19 in April 2023, in a period spanning only 15 months and at nineteen years of age.[2]

Alexis Lebrun
Alexis Lebrun in the 2022 European Table Tennis Championships in Munich.
Personal information
Full nameAlexis Lebrun
Nationality France
Born (2003-08-27) 27 August 2003
Montpellier, Occitanie, France
Highest ranking19 (May 2023)[1]
Current ranking19 (April 2023)[1]
ClubMontpellier tennis de table (France)

His younger brother Felix Lebrun is ranked number 2 in France and 34th in the world.[3]

Life and career

Alexis Lebrun discovered table tennis when he was three years old. His father Stephane Lebrun was a former number 7 table tennis player of France and former doubles champion of France.[4][5] He became the junior national champion of France in singles table tennis in 2020 and repeated his success in 2021.[6] In 2022, he defeated Simon Gauzy to become the national champion of France in the singles.[7] He also won the mixed doubles championship with Camille Lutz.[8] In March 2023, he retained his championship by beating his younger brother Félix Lebrun in the final.[9] In April 2023, he won in 5 sets against then number 1 tennis player in the world Fan Zhendong in the quarter-finals of the Macao tournament.[3]

Like his younger brother Felix, he was sponsored since his professional debut by the Butterfly brand.[10] In 2022 he finished his collaboration with Butterfly and signed a contract with Tibhar for six years.[11]

References
  1. "ITTF TABLE TENNIS WORLD RANKING". ittf.com. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  2. "World No.1 Fan upset in WTT Champions Macao quarterfinals". 21 April 2023. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  3. "Tennis de table : le jeune français Alexis Lebrun s'offre le n°1 mondial Fan Zhendong"". Le Figaro. 22 April 2023. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  4. "Montpellier : deux frères parmi les meilleurs espoirs du tennis de table". France 3 Occitanie. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  5. "Championnats européens 2022 : pour les jeunes frères Lebrun, le tennis de table est une histoire de famille". Franceinfo (in French). 2022-08-17. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  6. "Alexis et Félix Lebrun, deux jeunes pongistes montpelliérains félicités pour leurs titres de Champion de France junior et Champion de France cadet". www.montpellier.fr (in French). Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  7. "Prithika Pavade et Alexis Lebrun sacrés Champions de France !". www.fftt.com. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  8. "Les titres des tableaux doubles décernés au Vendéspace !". www.fftt.com (in French). Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  9. "Alexis Lebrun conserve son titre !". FFTT (in French). Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  10. "Alexis LEBRUN". BUTTERFLY FRANCE (in French). 2022-06-09. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  11. "TIBHAR vient de signer un partenariat jusqu'en 2028 avec Alexis, Félix et la team Lebrun et s'engage ainsi à long terme avec deux des plus grands talents mondiaux". TIBHAR (in French). 2022-09-05. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
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