The economic situation in the country led to less funding from the government, which caused the Greeks rely more on sponsorship to serve a stop gap measure.

In a few cases, Greek athletes had to self-fund if they wanted to participate internationally as their NPC did not have the funds.

[2] Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.

[3][4] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition.

[6] Tian (CHN)L 0–5 Chan (HKG)L 2–5 Demchuk (UKR)L 4–5 Cheong (HKG)W 5–2 Tsedryk (UKR)W 5–3 Pellegrini (ITA)W 5–4 Noble (FRA)W 5–2 Osvath (HUN)W 5–2 Mainville (CAN)W 5-1 Cheema (GER)W 5-4 Feng (CHN)W 5-1 Brazil (BRA)W 45-32 Demaude (FRA)W 5-3 Makowska (POL)L 0-5 Briese-Baetke (GER)L 2-5 Yao (CHN)L 2-5 Stefanos Diamantis qualified for Rio in the men's singles event via a Bipartite Commission Invitation place.