Tokyo Paralympics: India’s Bhavinaben Patel Takes Home Silver, Goes Down Fighting In Final

Aug 29, 2021
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Tokyo Paralympics: Indias Bhavinaben Patel Takes Home Historic Silver, Goes Down Fighting In Final

Bhavinaben Patel received a silver medal within the Tokyo Paralympics.© Twitter

Indian desk tennis participant Bhavinaben Patel signed off with a historic silver medal in her maiden Paralymic Video games after taking place 0-3 to world primary Chinese language paddler Ying Zhou within the ladies’s singles class 4 closing in Tokyo on Sunday. The 34-year-old Patel’s spectacular run on the Video games ended with a 7-11, 5-11, 6-11 loss to Zhou, a two-time gold medallist, within the ladies’s singles summit conflict which lasted 19 minutes. Patel had suffered a loss to Zhou in her first group stage match earlier within the week.

Up in opposition to an opponent, who has 5 Paralympic medals to her title together with gold medals in singles at Beijing and London, Patel appeared to battle as she could not execute her technique.

Patel, who was recognized with polio when she was 12 months previous, had defeated world no. 3 Miao Zhang of China 7-11, 11-7, 11-4, September 11, 11-8, within the semifinal showdown on Saturday.

Within the quarterfinal on Friday, Patel had defeated 2016 Rio Paralympics gold medallist and world quantity two Borislava Peric Rankovic of Serbia to guarantee a medal and script historical past.

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