News – British Para Table Tennis

Teenager Twomey California Dreaming

Three years after taking up table tennis 14-year-old Bly Twomey was standing on the podium at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games with four-time Paralympic champion Kelly van Zon, World and European champion Kubra Korkut and five-time Asian Para Games champion...

Heartbreak for Bayley after spectacular men’s class 7 final

Will Bayley missed out on the gold medal by the smallest of margins after a heartbreaking 3-2 defeat to China’s Yan Shuo in the final of men’s class 7. The match was a repeat of the final in Tokyo that...

Fernandez denies Davies a second Paralympic title

Former Paralympic champion Rob Davies made a brave bid to regain his men’s class 1 singles title at the SPA4 Arena in Paris this afternoon but was denied by Yunier Fernandez, the two-time Para PanAmerican Games champion and had to...

Brilliant Bayley through to Paralympic Final in Paris

Will Bayley produced a brilliant performance in his men’s class 7 singles semi-final this morning to beat two-time European champion and World number four Jean-paul Montanus 3-0 and is through to the final at 19:15 local time this evening. Bayley...

Twomey takes bronze after five-set semi-final battle with World champion

Bly Twomey won the hearts of the French crowd at the South Paris Arena 4 in Paris this morning with a performance that was full of skill and determination and came close to beating the World and European champion Kubra...

Davies through to second Paralympic final

Rob Davies produced another great performance to reach the final of the men’s class 1 singles at the South Paris Arena 4 this evening, but Aaron McKibbin went out of men’s class 8 after a quarterfinal defeat to the three-time...

Teenager Twomey through to women’s class 7 semi-finals

Teenager Bly Twomey is assured of a second medal on her Paralympic debut after a 3-0 win in her women’s class 7 quarterfinal in session 1 of the table tennis events on day 7 at South Paris Arena 4 in...

Former Paralympic champions Davies and Bayley through to semi-finals

Rio 2016 Paralympic champions Rob Davies and Will Bayley came through tough quarterfinals this evening to assure themselves of a singles medal in men’s class 1 and men’s class 7 respectively but there was disappointment for Tom Matthews who was...

Stacey through to men's class 9 quarterfinals

Joshua Stacey came through his last 16 match in the men’s class 9 singles in session 1 at the South Paris Arena 4 in Paris today, beating Lev Kats from Ukraine 3-1. The 24-year-old Welshman looked sharp from the first...

McKibbin through to quarterfinal but Shilton misses out

Aaron McKibbin came through a tense five-set match against Slovakian former World number one Richard Csejtey to reach the quarterfinals of men’s class 8 but there was heartbreak for Billy Shilton who went out after a 3-1 loss to Phisit...