It’s a video that is widely shared on social networks at the moment: we see two badminton players competing against each other during the Orleans Masters, which took place last week (behind closed doors) at the Palais des Sports d’Orléans (it’s a stage of the international circuit, called BWF Tour).
The French number one in the discipline, Brice Leverdez, faces the Indian Kiran George (21) in the round of 16 Thursday March 26. At the very beginning of the meeting, the Habs won an incredible point while they were very badly embarked on the exchange: in great difficulty, he dives three times and each time manages to return the shuttle to the other side of the net, just barely.
Brice Leverdez’s incredible defense
At the end of the point, on your knees, near the “fil“, Leverdez, at the end of his strength, does not get up and has no choice but to play while being on the ground: he returns the wheel and wins the point, which will have lasted 36 seconds.
It’s the point of the year! “
Certainly the Indian adversary “play badly“, but the defense of French is incredible: “It’s the point of the day. No, the point of the year! The point o the year!”, ignite the commentators of “Sport Tricolor“.
In the end, Brice Leverdez wins the game in three sets (21-15 / 14-21 / 21-19) and eliminates his Indian opponent. The 35-year-old Frenchman will then be eliminated in the quarter-finals against Thailand’s Kunlavut Vitidsarn.
It is the French Toma Junior Popov (22 years old), a great hope of badminton, who won Sunday in the final, easily disposing of the Danish Mads Christophersen.
