Jessy (Junjian) Chen (table tennis) made a spirited Commonwealth Games debut in Birmingham where he contested the men’s class 3-5 singles as one of six para players. A winner of multiple Oceania titles, Jessy is originally from southern China and moved to the Solomon Islands with his family in 2006 when he was a teenager. Shortly after their arrival racial tensions escalated and many Chinese-owned businesses were attacked. Their family home was burgled and Jessy was struck with a machete. Jessy suffered massive blood loss and a heart attack and was airlifted to Australia. He was in hospital for over a year, followed by a three-month stint at the Royal Rehabilitation Centre in Sydney. Now a quadriplegic, he had to learn to move again while learning to speak English. Table tennis became his way back. The Kurt Fearnley scholarship recipient is coached at Hornsby PCYC by Paul Zhao, but has recently started coaching himself, spending one day a month at the place that gave him his new start, the Royal Rehabilitation Centre.