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Martin Perry ensured his Polish Para Open adventure finished with a flourish after bagging a gold medal.

The Paisley para table tennis star had a difficult start to the competition in Wladyslawowo after being knocked out at the quarter-final stage following defeat to Marios Chatzikyriakos.

But the 25-year-old finished on a high by grabbing gold in the men’s class 6 team event with his Italian partner Matteo Parenzan.

He told Express Sport: “I wanted to get back to playing well after a disappointing singles and with the Spanish Open coming up.”

“Matteo and I message each other a fair bit and always chat at competitions so I was happy to play with him here. He’s only “Our doubles was fantastic and our styles complement each other really well. We managed to win every match 2-0 and I think that shows how well we were working together.”

Perry and Parenzan dominated the round-robin men’s class 6 team event, starting with a 2-0 win against Malthe Storgaard from Denmark and Piotr Manturz from Poland followed by a 2-0 win over the Israel team of Danny Bobrov and Gilad Skop.

Their third match against European team silver medallists Greece proved to be key in deciding the gold medal and after combining with Parenzan to win the doubles 3-1 Perry produced a superb comeback from 2-1, 10-6 down to beat Georgios Mouchthis 15-13 in the deciding set to secure a 2-0 win for his team.

The British-Italian partnership clinched the gold with a 2-0 win against Cristian Dettoni from Chile and the German Benedikt Muller, taking the doubles 3-1 and Parenzan beating Muller 3-1.

Perry was delighted to finish the event on a positive note, with points still up for grabs to qualify for the Paralympic Games in Tokyo later this year.

He believes he can take a lot from the competition, particularly his comeback win in the semi-finals of the doubles.

He said: “Overall it has been an up-and-down tournament for me but some positive play coming from the team event.

“At 2-1, 10-6 down against Mouchthis I knew if I could dig deep, receive well and get it back to 10-8 I felt I was always going to win two on my serve and I did.

“I kept that fighting spirit and managed to nick it in the fifth. When a match is that back and forth you can really analyse it and take a lot from that.”