Maria Tsaptsinos: Stockton On Tees 4*

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

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).

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