The GB Para Table Tennis Team took six medals in the singles events at the Slovakia Open last week, with Torpoint’s David Wetherill (men’s class 6) taking silver.

Wetherill started the day with a 3-0 win in the quarter-final against the Spaniard Alberto Seoane Alcazar, and had then showed great character to come back from 2-0 down against Rungroj Thainiyom fromThailand to beat the Paralympic champion 11-6 in the fifth.

That took him through to the final against the World number one Alvaro Valera, who was class 8 Paralympic champion in 2000 and is the current World and European champion in men’s class 6. After edging the first game 12-10 the Spaniard took the second 11-6 and although Wetherill fought back from 3-6 to lead 10-8 in the third Valera took it 12-10 to win the gold.

’I just didn’t take my chances,’ said 26 year old Wetherill. [I had game points in two of the three sets and to be honest my head wasn’t really there today. I was just a bit fatigued and let my concentration slip a little bit.

’But it’s encouraging and I know what I need to work on so hopefully in Rio it will be different.’