Asian Para Games: PH pair bags breakthrough table tennis silver

Inquirer.net - Oct 22, 2026

MANILA, Philippines–Lhey Manginsay and Wilfred Redulla captured silver in mixed doubles Class XD17 on Thursday, giving the Philippines its first table tennis medal at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Para Games in eight years. Manginsay and Redulla fell to Chinese pair Zhao Shuai, a Paralympic champion, and Xiong Guiyan, an Asian Para Games silver medalist, 7-11,

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