Maria Tsaptsinos: November 2010

Maria Tsaptsinos

...started playing table tennis during the last year of her primary schooling and then joined Kingfisher club whereas she trained with Brian Halliday and later had weekly sessions with Gareth Herbert. Then she was invited to Lilleshall and Sheffield for the Youth Development Squad and consequently to the International Youth Squad. Represented England in various tournaments since 2012 and participated at the Youth Europeans as a Caded and Junior. In 2015 the first call for a senior cap came for the Europeans and Table Tennis Commonwealth.
Maria currently is a scholar at University of Nottingham studying Geography.
Her other interests include football, music and spends time socialising on facebook.

Sponsors: Tees Sport, Spire Dunedin Hospital, SSE with the help of SportsAid, Table Tennis 365, TASS

Friday, 26 November 2010

New Rankings

The new rankings came out today. Maria stayed 5th (Cadets) but narrowed the difference with the 3 girls above her. For the Juniors moved up three places to 25th.

Tuesday, 23 November 2010

England International Youth Squads

Congratulations for being invited to the ETTA International Youth Squad for the coming season at Cadet level by the England Junior Selection panel. The hard work and good performances of the past two months have paid off.

Monday, 22 November 2010

Cadet Nationals: Reaching the Final

Runners Up medal

Unseeeded Maria had a superb day beating both No 4 seed Megan Knowles and No 2 Seed Emma Torkington in earlier rounds to reach the cadet final at the nationals that took place at Hatfield on the 21st of November 2010.
At the group stage the results were:
Nicole Bird vs Maria: 11-7, 3-11, 8-11, 7-11
Isobel Ashley vs Maria:11-8, 11-6, 11-6
Eda Aydin vs Maria:11-8, 7-11, 3-11, 5-11

which meant going through to the second round, to face number 4 seed and fellow Berkshire player Megan Knowles at the quarter finals.
Maria produced a superb performance in terms of dominating the flow of play, consistency and concentration to win 3-1(11-8, 9 -11, 11-9, 13-11). Next for the semi-final she played Emma Torkington the number 2 seed and again a concentrated effort produced yet another great win (10-12, 11-8, 11-8,11-8). On the final the unbeatable, for the moment, Tin Tin Ho won 3-0.

Monday, 1 November 2010

Stockton On Tees 4*

Maria with her winning prize

On Sunday, 31st of October, Maria won the grade 1 Junior girls singles against Laura Higham (3-1).
On the group stage she beat Eszter Soos and Hannah Lynch Dawson (both with a 3-0 scoreline); and on the semi final had a comfortable win against Lucy Zhu with 3-0.

On Sunday morning for Juniors she had in her group Katie McGlone (U13s finalist from Ireland) which she beat easily 3-0 but then lost to Charleigh Kirby 3-1 so she was out.

On Saturday for Cadets she beat Lucy Elliott from Scotland 3-0, Hannah Lynch Dawson of Ireland 3-1 to qualify. For Round 16 she beat Elayna McGlone from Ireland 3-0 but lost to Isobel Ashley 3-0 (two sets on 13-11).

ETTA report