MORE GOLD, SILVER FOR HONG KONG, CHINA TENNIS HISTORY, WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT IN WORLD OF SPORT

Ho Yuen-kei wins city's second boccia title at Paralympics, Chinese quartet into last 8 of wheelchair tennis, and Ronaldo is not quitting yet

Hong Kong's Olympians came home with two gold medals from Paris and the Paralympic delegation have matched that achievement, with the potential of more to follow.

For Vivian Kong Man-wai and Cheung Ka-long in fencing, read Ho Yuen-kei and John Loung in boccia. Meanwhile, badminton star Chan Ho-yuen bowed out with a silver, retiring on a high note. Which is a lesson Cristiano Ronaldo could learn.

From another golden night in Paris to raging against the dying of the light in Lisbon, here's what happened while you were sleeping.

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Third time's a charm

Ho Yuen-kei sealed a second boccia gold in the French capital, beating Australia's Jamieson Lesson 4-2 to win the women's individual BC3 title, her first medal in three Games.

"I'm so grateful and honoured to have [won] this medal for Hong Kong," Ho, whose husband Lee Wing-kit is her ramp operator, said afterwards.

"This means so much to me. This is my third Paralympic Games. I had always dreamed of getting a medal at the Paralympic Games. Finally, I did it."

Ho has a chance of adding another medal in the mixed doubles, where she will team up with Tse Tak-wah.

Every cloud

In the final of the men's singles WH2 badminton, defending champion Daiki Kajiwara was too strong for Hong Kong's Chan Ho-yuen, winning 21-10, 21-10 in their gold medal match.

The Japanese player was ranked No 1 and said he had been determined to retain the title he won in Tokyo three years ago.

"I'm disappointed," Chan said. "He [Kajiwara] was really ready for the game and I think that he was 100 per cent convinced that he could grab the gold medal. He was very confident, so he deserved it."

Chan's teammate, Chun Man-kai, narrowly lost in the battle for bronze in the SH6 category, going down 23-21, 16-21, 21-12 to Brazil's Viktor Travares.

China's rising stars

For the first time since wheelchair tennis joined the Paralympic Games programme in 1992, four Chinese players are through to the last eight of a singles event.

The march in Paris has been spearheaded by veteran Zhu Zhenzhen, who was the first to book her berth in the women's quarter-finals when she beat Macarena Cabrillana 6-0, 6-4 in the second round.

Zhu has long been Chinese wheelchair tennis' flagbearer, so the progress was not lost on the 35-year-old.

"We've been improving and making new breakthroughs these few years, so that also helps raise our profile. We'll continue to work hard to bring wheelchair tennis in China to higher ground," Zhu said.

New balls, Jeeves

It must be hard being the talented daughter of a multi-billionaire sports magnate.

American tennis star Jessica Pegula beat Diana Shnaider 6-4, 6-2, to reach the quarter-finals of the US Open on Monday, and then said it was "annoying" and "outrageous" that fans believed she had servants waiting on her hand and foot.

Just to prove she was one of the people, Pegula took to social media to detail her journey on New York's subway as she made her way to Flushing Meadows.

"It's that people think I have a butler, that I get chauffeured around. I have a private limo, that I fly private everywhere. I'm definitely not like that," said Pegula, whose father Terry Pegula owns the Buffalo Bills NFL team as well as the NHL's Buffalo Sabres and is reportedly worth US$7.7 billion.

Not going gently

It turns out Cristiano Ronaldo fully intends to rage against the dying of the light, even if he insists he will quit when the time is right - which for many Portugal fans was right after his awful performance at the Euros.

The 39-year-old claimed finally retiring wouldn't be a "difficult decision to make" and he would be the first to leave "if I feel like I'm no longer contributing anything".

Ronaldo can obviously point to all those goals he scored (none) as Portugal crashed out of the European Championship in the quarter-finals. The Al-Nassr player will try again on Thursday, as his side take on Croatia in the Nations League.