At just 13 years old, Maxence Jaffrennou is beginning to look like Monaco’s own real-life answer to Marty Supreme, minus the Hollywood script, but with very real results on the table…
The young player from Monaco Table Tennis claimed a major title at the Grand Est International Youth Championships in Pont-à-Mousson, a tournament that brought together many of Europe’s most promising junior talents just before the Christmas break. Over the course of an intense weekend, Jaffrennou delivered a performance that bordered on the flawless.
On Saturday, he played six matches and dropped just a single set, marking a breakthrough by defeating both the Belgian and German number ones for the first time in his young career. Sunday proved just as convincing. Across four more matches, he conceded only two sets, dispatching the player ranked 17th in the semi-final before producing a dominant 3–0 victory over the German number one in the final.
Clinical, composed and relentlessly aggressive, Jaffrennou played with a maturity well beyond his years, the kind of calm precision that recalls cinema’s great ping-pong prodigies, only this time it was unfolding in real life.
Competing under the colours of the PACA League, he was coached throughout the event by Jeff Alfano, whose guidance played a key role in the campaign. This title not only confirms Jaffrennou’s rapid rise, but also underlines the quality of training at Monaco Table Tennis, with the rest of the season now full of promise.
