Our first confirmed competitor for Beijing – Will Bayley

Kent Table Tennis player Will Bayley, will be part of the Team Great Britain table tennis squad at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing.

The 20-year-old from Tunbridge Wells is ranked 19th in the world for Table Tennis and currently trains at the Bristol Table Tennis Academy at Filton College. He is also a keen actor and used to attend the Brit School in Croydon.

Will says:

“It hasn’t really sunk in yet. It’s been two years of hard work and concentrating on qualification so it’s great that I have been selected. In Beijing I want to win a medal in the singles. It’s quite an open class – there are about six or seven athletes who could win.”

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