Unsurprisingly, Alexis and Félix Lebrun will lead the tricolor delegation to the Doha World Championships (May 17-25), according to the selection revealed Wednesday by the French Table Tennis Federation.
Félix Lebrun, just crowned champion of France, and his older brother Alexis, reigning European champion, will be accompanied by the gentlemen of Simon Gauzy, bronze medalist at the Paris Olympic Games by teams.
N.3 World in doubles, and finalists in Levallois last weekend (beaten by the Lebrun brothers), Florian Bourrassaud and Esteban Dorr will also be there, in double. Lilian Bardet and Thibault Porest complete the male selection.
Among the ladies, the French N.1 Prithika Pavade will also be present, just like Jia Nan Yuan.
Champion of France in double mixed, Charlotte Lutz (French N.3) will also be of the event, just like Audrey Zarif or the young Leana Hochart, only 16 years old.
Except for the Bourrassaud-Dorr pair, the other pairs of double gentlemen, ladies and mixed have not yet been communicated.
In simple, the only individual world title won by a Frenchman is that of Jean-Philippe Gatien in 1993.
The pair Claude Bergeret-Jacques Secretin was crowned world champion in double mixed in 1977, while the last tricolor medal in the competition dates back to 1997 with bronze for Gatien and Damien Eloi in double gentlemen.