DRUMCHAPEL Table Tennis Club’s Martin Perry was one of Great Britain’s star performers at the Belgium Open as the 21-year-old returned with two medals.

Perry, who plays the sport with the use of two prosthetics, took bronze in the class six singles and teamed up with Conor McAdam to win silver in the team event at the para tournament which finished on Monday.

The Drum star began his singles competition with a narrow 3-2 loss to Jacobus Meiland from the Netherlands but reached the quarter-finals with a 3-0 win over Junki Itai from Japan.

Another close match saw Perry come out on top this time in a 3-2 win against the Australian Trevor Hirth, taking him into a semi-final against Michael Azulay. The experienced Swede, who took bronze in the team event at last month’s European Championships, was just too strong in a 3-1 win but Perry was pleased with his performance.

He said: “I feel I played very well overall. My first match I lost so closely in the fifth that I knew I had found some rhythm and I felt I really kicked on from that in my next match.

“My quarter final was so tight and I felt Trevor (Hirth) and I played great table tennis.

“In the semi-final against Azulay I feel it’s the best I’ve ever played against him and I feel I really could have won the match.” Perry then teamed up with fellow Scot McAdam, from Ayr, in the round robin men’s class six team event. After a hard-fought 3-2 win over a combined team from Russia and Kazakhstan and a 3-0 win over Belgium they played Azulay and Hirth in their final match to decide the gold medal.

The GB pair played well to take the doubles 3-1 but had to be content with silver as the Swedish/Australian pair took the match 3-1.

Perry added: “In my final match I lost to Hirth 12-10 in the fifth, which was really quite hard to take as I had fought back from 8-2 down to lead 10-8 but I can only take the positives from that and I kept fighting to the end.

“I feel that I’m really starting to show the level of discipline that’s needed to be a top player.

“Conor and I won the doubles in our last match which was a really good performance and I’m happy with silver.”