Wandsworth table tennis star Aaron McKibbin continued his medal-winning run with singles bronze at the Bayreuth Open in Germany.

The 21-year-old Paralympian, ranked 15 in the world, went into last week’s event having won class 8 team gold in Slovenia two weeks’ before.

McKibbin won all three of his group matches, including a 3-0 defeat of the Belgian world number 10 Mathieu Loicq, before going on to defeat the talented Brazilian Israel Stroh 3-1 in the quarter-finals, recovering well after losing the first set.

In the semi-finals, he came up against the world number two in Emil Andersson from Sweden and although losing the match 3-1, he had chances to turn the match around and showed improved form against the Paralympic bronze medallist.

McKibbin said: “I think it is the best I’ve played all season, so I’m happy with my performance.

“I usually have very close matches against Loicq but I think I played tactically well against him today and felt in control of the match.

“I played better against Andersson than in previous matches but he played very well so I have to take a lot of positives out of the last two days.”

McKibbin joins his GB team-mates in action in the team events which conclude tomorrow (June 1).