The British men’s class 6 team of Paul Karabardak, Martin Perry and David Wetherill successfully defended their European title in the Team event at the European Para Table Tennis Championships in Helsingborg, Sweden.
Perry, who has relocated from Paisley to Sheffield to train as part of the British Para Table Tennis centralised programme, has been a key part of the team that has now won this event twice in a row. The result is an important milestone in the Scots journey to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
Although Perry did not play, he has been an important presence in the team.
“Obviously we have been knocking up as a three with our coach Andrew as well,” said Perry, “and it makes everyone have the perfect practice which has been good. So, I feel that regardless of who has played in the match everyone has come in well prepared and well-focused to go on and get the job done. Paul and Dave ensured that we came out on top, but we have prepared as a unit from start to finish and that is what a team does. It is brilliant to come away as two-time European champions and I hope that I can up my level in the next few years and come back to the next Europeans more in contention to get on the score sheet. But at the moment these guys are levels above and so I just have to keep pushing myself to hopefully one day match them.”
For more information on Martins journey, please visit his website https://martin-perry.co.uk/