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, 23 May 2011

Cadet Masters

Over the weekend Maria participated for the first time at the Cadet Masters. The top 12 girls plus 2 wild cards were invited and Maria was the 5th seed. All players had to play each other and Maria won 9 out of 13 games to finish 4th, one point behind the third player.
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Thursday, 12 May 2011

England Call Up

Maria is due to represent England for the forthcoming Cadet 6 Nations in Germany in June. This is the first call up for Maria and the competition will provide valuable european experience for her future development.
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Friday, 6 May 2011

Nationals U14s Photos

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Sunday, 1 May 2011

Nationals Under 11-14: A National Champion


On the 30th of April Maria reached the final of the Under14s girls and faced Tin Tin Ho. Maria's forehand and determination brought her a great win by 3 sets to 1 for her first title of her career.

ETTA website reports: A superb display by No 2 seed Maria Tsaptsinos inflicted the only defeat at these championships in the last several years on the Number 1 seed Tin Tin Ho in the final of the Under 14 Girls. Maria’s two winged attack was just too strong for Tin Tin and only the third game went the way of Tin Tin in a 3-1 defeat.


Under 14 Girls Singles Group 2


Player 1 2 3 4 Points Played Position
Maria TSAPTSINOS (Bk)  ---  3-0 3-0 3-0 6 3 1
Nicole BIRD (Np) 0-3  ---  3-1 3-0 5 3 2
Lara ESQUIVEL (E) 0-3 1-3  ---  0-3 3 3 4
Emma SHEEN (Sx) 0-3 0-3 3-0  ---  4 3 3
Individual Results
Nicole BIRD v Emma SHEEN 11-7,11-4,11-5
Maria TSAPTSINOS v Lara ESQUIVEL 11-6,11-5,11-2
Maria TSAPTSINOS v Nicole BIRD 11-5,11-6,11-8
Emma SHEEN v Lara ESQUIVEL 11-7,11-3,11-6
Maria TSAPTSINOS v Emma SHEEN 11-6,11-8,11-5
Lara ESQUIVEL v Nicole BIRD 11-6,6-11,6-11,6-11

208 Letitia McMULLAN (Ha) 208 Letitia McMULLAN (Ha)
208 Letitia McMULLAN (Ha)
4 3 -9 7
Bye
Bye 216 Bethany WILSON (Dv)
202 Maria TSAPTSINOS (Bk)
4 5 10
216 Bethany WILSON (Dv)
211 Kayleigh FORSTER (Cv) 209 Amy HUMPHREYS (Ng)
W/O 		202 Maria TSAPTSINOS (Bk)
7 4 10
209 Amy HUMPHREYS (Ng)
Bye 202 Maria TSAPTSINOS (Bk)

201 Tin-Tin HO (Mi) 201 Tin-Tin HO (Mi)
7 12 7 		202 Maria TSAPTSINOS (Bk)
6 10 -4 6
205 Chrissie SLOT (Ha)
206 Emily BOLTON (Cu) 202 Maria TSAPTSINOS (Bk)
7 2 2

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