Bhavinaben Patel made history by arriving at the final of the women’s singles class 4 table tennis event at the Tokyo Paralympics subsequent to overcoming world no. 3 China’s Miao Zhang on Saturday. Bhavaniben will currently go after the gold medal on Sunday.
Bhavinaben lost the first game 7-11, however at that point returned solidly to dominate two successive matches 11-7, 11-4. Zhang dominated the fourth match 11-9 to compel the fifth set.
The India paddler began the fifth match dominating six back-to-back points however at that point lost three on the run. However, at that point, she figured out how to dominate the match 11-8 to dominate the game.
She will currently take on world number one Chinese paddler Ying Zhou in the culmination clash on Sunday.
Bhavinaben had entered the elimination rounds with a staggering straight-match dominant over world number two and reigning champ Borislava Peric Rankovic of Serbia in the women’s singles Class 4 occasion.
The 34-year-old, who was determined to have polio when she was 12, beat her Serbian adversary 11-5 11-6 11-7 in a quarterfinal match that kept going 18 minutes.
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