Frustrated by his defeat in the quarterfinals of the European Championship on Saturday, the youngest of the Lebrun brothers threw his racket. He received a red card and was “very afraid” of not being able to play in the doubles final on Sunday.
While he had just been overthrown by the German Benedikt Duda 4-3, after having notably had a match point, the youngest of the Lebrun Brothers, 18 years old, threw his racket in anger and sadness on the ground, a gesture directly punished with a red card.
“Right away I saw that I could be disqualified from the doubles final”the Frenchman said after the match, about the gold medal match he will play alongside his brother Alexis, 21, on Sunday, against Swedes Anton Kallberg and Truls Moregard.
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