Tokyo Paralympics: Silver for India as Bhavinaben Patel goes down fighting in table tennis final
Bhavinaben Patel
The first medal for India at the ongoing Tokyo Paralympics 2020 as star player Bhavinaben Patel won the historicsilver in women's table tennis (Class 4) on Sunday (August 29). She went down0-3 to world number one Chinese paddler Ying Zhou.
The 34-year-old Patel's impressive runin her maiden Paralympic Gamesended with a 7-11 5-11 6-11 loss to Zhou, a two-time gold medallist, in the women's singles summit clash which lasted 19 minutes.
Bhavinabecame only the second Indian female athlete to win a medal in the Paralympics after Deepa Malik, who bagged a silver in shot put F43 in 2016.
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Patel had suffered a loss to Zhou in her first group stage match earlier in the week.
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Up against an opponent, who has five Paralympic medals to her name including gold medals in singles at Beijing and London, Patel seemed to struggle as she couldn't execute her strategy.
Patel, who was diagnosed with polio when she was 12 months old, had defeated world no 3 Miao Zhang of China 7-11 11-7 11-4 9-11 11-8 in the semifinal showdown on Saturday.
In the quarterfinal on Friday, Patel had defeated 2016 Rio Paralympics gold medallist and world number two Borislava Peric Rankovic of Serbia to assure a medal and script history.