Need to Adapt, Concedes Lanier
There has been buzz around Alex Lanier for the last three years at least. Yet, when the Frenchman went on to win his biggest title – a World Tour Super 750 in Japan last year – it was a bolt from the blue. Nobody had…
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There has been buzz around Alex Lanier for the last three years at least. Yet, when the Frenchman went on to win his biggest title – a World Tour Super 750 in Japan last year – it was a bolt from the blue. Nobody had quite seen it coming.
Partly that was because, while Lanier had acquitted himself well on the circuit as an up-and-coming player, he had yet to achieve a major breakthrough at the highest level.
All that changed in the space of an extraordinary week in Yokohama in late August, where he took down five strong opponents – Lee Zii Jia, Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo, Kenta Nishimoto, Shi Yu Qi and Chou Tien Chen. Suddenly the 20-year-old had grown in stature.