Tokyo: Bhavinaben Patel on Sunday became the second Indian woman who won a medal in Paralympics after she signed a historic silver after losing 0-3 for the Chinese number one Ying Zhou Paddler in the final of the 4th grade of women here.
Run Patel who impressed 34 years in the match ended with a battle 7-11 5-11 6-11 losses to Zhou, a gold medalist twice, at Clash Singles Singles which lasted 19 minutes.
With this medal, the Indian team opened his account in the game.
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Patel, a wheelchair player, also suffered Zhou’s losses, one of the most decorated Chinese Paddler, in his first group stage match earlier this week.
Against the opponent, who has five paralympic medals with his name including a gold medal in Singles in Beijing and London, Patel seems to fight because he cannot execute his strategy and go to do the work of catching up.
Currently showing mental skills and resilience throughout the #ParmPics campaign.
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https://t.co/G4OGKS4RE7-ODODARSHAN SPORTS (@dsportsChannel) 1630207996000ZHOU, a world championship winner six times, does not allow Patel, currently ranked 12th in the division and finds its tilt again and find his death.
Enter the General Meeting.
In the first match, Zhou rose from 3-3 to move forward.
Patel tried to guard himself in touching distance by serving extraordinary in 5-7 and forehand films but Chinese people managed to get that bragging with a deep push at the beginning.
Congratulations #Bhavinapel is very amazing to win a medal at @ Tokyo2020 on #NationSportsDay.
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https://t.co/FqGaMas71- Deepa Malik (@deepaaThLete) 1630204494000 in the second game is a one-way traffic because Zhou jumped to tin 7-1 from the start.
Patel narrowed him to 4-7 but China immediately won a 2-0 lead.
Driven to the edge of the abyss, Patel tried to write recovery when he moved the neck and neck with his opponent to 5-5 in the third match.
But Zhou once again moved forward and sealed the contest with a backhand shot.
Fantastic performance by @ bhavinapelel6 to extend silver and open an Indian account at # Tokyo2020 @Parmpics.
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Bindra Oly (@abhinaV_Bindra) 1630203582000Patel, which was diagnosed with polio when he was 12 months old, has defeated the world No.
3 Miao Zhang from China 7-11 11-7 11 -4 9-11 11-8 in the semifinals on Saturday.
In the quarter-finals on Friday, Patel had defeated the 2016 Rio Paralympics gold medalist Borislava Peric Rankovic from Serbia to convince himself.
After the final on Sunday, PM Narendra Modi spoke with Bhavina and congratulated Him to win the Silver Medal Paralympics.
PM praised his efforts and told Bhavina that he had written a script.
He hopes the best for his future business.
Congratulations to #bhavinapel to make a history by winning the Indian silver medal in Singles Class …
https://t.co/x1RHMUFH11- Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) 16302055128000in table tennis, class 1-5 is for wheelchair athletes.
Athletes in the class 4 category have a fair sitting balance and full-functional arms and hands.
Their interference might be caused by lower spinal lesions or cerebral palsy.
Patel started playing sports 13 years ago at The Blind’s Association in the Vastrapur Ahmedabad area where he was an ITI student for people with disabilities.
There, he saw children who were disturbed visually playing table tennis and decided to take sports.
He won his first medal in the competition while representing the Rotary Club at Ahmedabad, where he settled now after his marriage to Nikunj Patel, who had played Junior Cricket for Gujarat.
He reached number two world rankings in 2011 after winning a silver medal for India at the PTT Table Tennis Championship Thailand.
In October 2013, Patel won another silver in the 4th grade of women at the Asian Table Tennis Championship in Beijing.
Paralympics: Paddler Bhavina won historic silver
