Hugo Calderano vs Felix Lebrun | MS Final | #WTTLjubljana 2025

That's a way to set the tone. This is their third meeting, by the way, in a star contender final. Brent trailing by two. Felix knew they just played that too high. Yeah, they're almost drifting too long. Oh, best rallies of finals day. Punishing play from Calderano. And this is his third match today. Crazy. Calderano at this event. Well, good work touch from Calderano around the net. And again, they played the slower backhand overhit from Felix. Defeated Chan Baldwin, Chinua Niu, Soramatsu Shima, and Daiko Yorgic, all 3-1. Yeah, well, Felix's fray goes away with $4,250. The loser here, over $9,000. He was already overcommitted. Works like a charm as well. Very, very good at the Rubik's Cube. Oh, lucky. Oh, problem solving here, Calderano. Oh, Hugo had to undo a Rubik's Cube there. Doing well with the control plate, blocking well. And then when he gets his chance, he takes it. He's quietly going about his business. There's a divisiveness about Felix Lebrun. There's a wisdom to the pen holder. Yeah, without having to hit as hard as Hugo does. Oh, that's delightful touch play. So there are bigger events than this. Hold the phone. But you've got to qualify for them. In this final, it was 4-0 to Calderano last time. It still could be. Lebrun sinks to the floor. He clipped the net on the way through, didn't it? Oh, backhand down the line for a winner. That is simply emphatic. How do you shut down a player as powerful as Hugo Calderano? Very short, very long. Nothing in between. There's the long. Yeah, you see, he got Hugo away from the table with that. Oh, what a backhand from Felix Lebrun. Yeah. Never in a million years. Rally of the match. Oh, Calderano whistles it down the line. And that has quite rightly drawn some ums and ahs from the crowd. What more can you say about that, Colin? Has its advantages. Two game points to Calderano. Top edge is that one. Good placement from Lebrun. Oh, lucky Felix. No matter how it started. Nice short play from Felix and it's game. Just occasionally, you feel that Hugo's overdoing it now. Would be a backhand serve, if not for the penhold grip. Nice angle wide of the forehand. Facing two game points. What do we have here? Lebrun doing well out of position. Lebrun at the World Championships was complaining about that, but Calderano said, I can't help it. Lebrun has improved his hunting for his eighth WTT senior title. Yeah, two all, six all. Look at that swipe from Hugo. Is that your seatbelt one? You gave it just enough lift. Will the winner of this game go on to take the match? Eto'o, he's going to get the lead. Lebrun did something different there. He pushed straight out to the forehand. Lebrun on the edge here. And it's Calderano. Questions asked by the young Frenchman. And again, Felix just having to scrap. Oh, did that touch the edge? No, it didn't. No. Took the top of the net tape and then went long. And then getting back out, actually, in between in case it comes long. Exactly that. Hugo in trouble. Are you sure he was in trouble there, Colin? He was on the back first. It's four championship points to Hugo Calderano. Will he win his third star contender title? It's all over. Calderano has won again here in Ljubljana. He's gone back to back, beating the same man here in the same place again. What a victory. He beat both Lebrun brothers.