Lim Jonghoon defeats Simon Gauzy in thrilling WTT Singapore Smash match

South Korea’s Lim Jonghoon returned to form with a hard-fought victory over France’s Simon Gauzy at the WTT Singapore Smash on 24/02/2026, celebrating the win by dropping to his knees at the end of the match. The supplied tournament footage and social posts frame the contest as intense and closely contested, with the official highlights described as emphasizing the match’s intensity.

The fixture appears across multiple platforms. A match video is titled "Lim Jonghoon vs Simon Gauzy | MS R32 | #WTTSingapore2026" and shows a view-count snippet of 4.7K, suggesting the upload identified the match as Main Singles Round of 32. BetsAPI’s match page lists the same pairing with a timestamp of 2026/02/24 06:55, identifies the venue on its page as Stadium: Table 2 and labels the fixture Round: 5. Flashscore also records the listing "# Jonghoon Lim v Simon Gauzy (24/02/2026)". The two different round labels are both present in the public record supplied here.

Social engagement around the match was visible on the Singapore Smash Instagram account on February 24, 2026; the post in the supplied snippet recorded 866 likes and 4 comments and carried the truncated caption "Lim Jonghoon return to form Lim Jonghoon vs Simon Gauzy served up 3". The tournament upload and social traffic underline that the contest produced the "edge-of-your-seat moments" cited in match coverage and that Lim’s emotional celebration was the defining image after play.

What the supplied sources do not provide is a numerical score or set-by-set breakdown. None of the captured items include final scores, point statistics, or an official bracket confirmation that reconciles the YouTube "MS R32" label with BetsAPI’s "Round: 5" nomenclature. That gap means the precise scoring line for Lim’s win is not available in the material on hand, even though media assets and match pages confirm the outcome and date.

Contextually, Lim’s victory fits with recent tournament form listed in the supplied results archive: Lim won the WTT Star Contender Ljubljana 2025 main draw R64 and previously appears as winner at WTT Star Contender Doha 2022 R32 in the historical log. Simon Gauzy’s recent highlights in the supplied list include winning the WTT Feeder Otocec II 2025 main draw final. Those lines show both players entering Singapore with tournament wins on their records in the last two seasons.

Lim’s on-court reaction - dropping to his knees - and the official highlights’ focus on intensity make this more than a routine first-week result at the Singapore Smash on 24/02/2026. The match video and Instagram post provide the available visual record; the official bracket and match statistics will be needed to confirm the stage label and the exact scoreline for archival records and next-round pairings.