Bhavinaben Patel wants to meet Sachin Tendulkar and show her silver medal

NEW DELHI: Winning a medal at the

Tokyo Paralympic Games

was a dream come true for Bhavinaben Patel and now the paddler wants to realise another dream -- meeting her childhood idol Sachin Tendulkar and show her silver medal to the iconic cricketer.

"Bhavina wants to meet Tendulkar and show the medal to him. He is her idol. We are trying to contact him and fix a meeting once we return to India," husband Nikul Patel said.

Bhavinaben became only the second India woman to win a medal at the Para Olympic Games. She lost her final to world number one Chinese rival

Ying Zhou

, who won her third

Paralympics

gold.