European champion in singles and doubles with his brother, Alexis Lebrun makes the double – Libération

Barely three months after the fantastic Olympic Games, the magical year of the Lebrun siblings continues. The two French nuggets – Félix, 18 years old, and Alexis Lebrun, 21 years old – were crowned this Sunday, October 20 in the afternoon in Linz (in Austria) European champions in doubles for the first time in their history.

They won easily in the final against the Swedes Anton Kallberg and Truls Moregard (three sets to zero). It had been two decades and the victory of Patrick Chila and Jean-Philippe Gatien in Bremen since a French pair had triumphed on a continental scale.

An hour later, Alexis Lebrun did it again, in singles this time. He won extremely easily in the final against the German Benedikt Duda, 28th in the world, the same one who took out his brother Félix to everyone’s surprise in the quarter-finals on Saturday. Earlier in the day, the eldest of the Lebrun brothers had already achieved the feat of dismissing the Swedish Olympic vice-champion Truls Moregard (4-0). He is the third Frenchman to become European champion, eight years after Emmanuel Lebesson in Budapest and almost half a century after Jacques Secutin in Prague (1976).

Updated at 6:21 p.m. with the singles victory of Alexis Lebrun.