Dirty Game from Yuan Licen against Alexis Lebrun! He Deserved the Red Card

#tabletennis #乒乓 #redcard #sportsmen
Men's Singles - Round of 64 Singapore Smash

[JoeyLu]

As a football fan, I do not know how Yuan continued with a red card.

[Liasos]

Imagine if Yuan worked as a cleaner, he would be working 24 hours every day, continuously sweeping a 100% clean floor.

[tamasbrenyo]

Refereeing can be a joke sometimes. They're super strict but inconsistent with calling a serve too low or hidden, but when such continous inentional provocation happens they're clueless.
Yuan went way over the line, showcased incredible unsportsmanship, disturbed ~10 serves but only got -1 point penalty. WTT should introduce more serious punishment for such actions, take -2 if he continues, after 5 take the match away...

[abolition]

Disgusting behaviour. It was intolerable enough just to watch, imagine what Alexis was feeling. Regardless Alexis handled it like the champ he is, showing a level of maturity beyond his years. Bravo!

[mmmkmkmkmable]

Yuan gets into ready position by being at the table and leaning forward THEN he puts his hand up for literally no reason as Alexis is about to serve. This has nothing to do with Alexis' serving speed this is just one of the dumbest tactics by a player who knows he's not good enough to beat Alexis.

[fabiendmng]

I referred a game in the french championships when Lebrun played. He always waits his opponent to the table before to serve, which is not showed due to the cuts here.

If you are at the table before the serve, you're supposed to be ready, as simple as that. So the red card is well deserved for Yuan because it is a time wasting tactic.

[yohaneswilliam]

2:08 lol even the referee smacked her lips 😂

[xecuterz]

Who has played table tennis competitively (even in small divisions) in all these comments?
The video cuts are when Alexis Le Brun will perform his service so we do not know the time elapsed before positioning.
If Yuan Licen believes that Alexis Le Brun was serving too quickly, he does not stand in front of the table in a position to receive to raise his hand 2 seconds later.
If you get into position, you're ready.
There may be something holding you back from getting into position, but not 5, 6, 7, 8 times during sets.

[samueldupuis]

We got to acknowledge this master piece of concentration, it must been really hard too stay focus against this tactics

[mondemeilleur]

😂 Alexis Lebrun is so chill and good 🎉

[leonawroth]

Good for Alexis to stay cool, calm and win this match. What a disgrace.

[joeyn]

Yuan is simply an unskilled nobody who needed this tactic to stand a chance against alexis. Good on lebraun for keeping his cool

[slylataupe]

It just highlights how classy and better Lebrun is 😊

[corbinaguiar]

That's crazy. I've never seen that tactic, I think he's trying to learn his serves at first because you see him just holding out his racket and seeing what the ball does off of it. Kinda messed up ngl. Also what is the point of a red card if it doesn't do anything? Good on Lebrun tho

[rockys]

If I was the umpire he would have gotten multiple red cards. It's something that he was warned about and knows the rules. It was clear he was disregarding the rules and kept repeating the unsportsmanlike conduct. If I was the umpire at his next match I would be holding the cards in my hand...

[Adri-eksv]

Une leçon de self-control par Alexis Lebrun. Les chinois savent plus quoi faire pour battre le français. Alexis Lebrun est un monstre programmé pour devenir le numéro 1. Son talent, son mental et son intelligence de jeu lui permettent de réaliser cela. Chapeau bas l'athlète! Et c'est un belge qui vous le dit

[shogrran]

If you want to squeeze time to prep to receive a serve, you raise your hand BEFORE any other motion. If you approach the table and bend before raising your hand that is considered in ALL countries and all nationalities and in all places playing table tennis to be a dick move.

[manuelvleeuwen]

The fact that a 3 minute compilation could be made of this says a lot, really unsportmanlike

[Alf]

It's a shame that the Chinese Table Tennis Federation chooses such players to represent the country.

[philcawser]

What a first class tossed that Yuan is.
No matter how good he becomes henceforth, he has lost bucketloads of respect for this childish gamesmanship.