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ITTF Costa Brava Spanish Para: As the clock ticks down for the Opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Paralympic Games in Paris on Wednesday, the spotlight will be on para table tennis one of the eight sports when the first Paralympic Games were held in Rome in 1960.

The world will be waiting to see whether China's dominance of the sport will end in Paris. Paddlers from Australia, France, Japan and Poland will be among those hoping to get the better of the strong Chinese contingent at Paris and claim gold medals.

Among those hoping to get the better of the Chinese para-table tennis stars will be India's Bhavina Patel, the Tokyo Paralympic Games silver medallist who will be hoping to upgrade her medal this time in Paris.