Table tennis rebuilds Chen after machete attack

Table tennis has given Jessy Chen, who suffered a machete attack, a new purpose in life. (Greg Smith/AAP PHOTOS)

When he was growing up in China, Jessy Chen probably didn't envisage a world where he would one day represent Australia at a Paralympic Games. 

But after he moved to the Solomon Islands as a teenager, Chen was the victim of a racially-motivated machete attack that left him in a wheelchair.