Maria Tsaptsinos: 2011 Six Nations Tournaments: Results

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

Tuesday, 21 June 2011

2011 Six Nations Tournaments: Results

The Cadet Team 2011

The tournament took place at Dusseldorf, Germany over three days (17-19 June). Maria participated with the England Cadet team together with Tin Tin Ho, Emily Bolton and Lois Peake for the group and individual stages.

Maria played and beat the following girls:
Melissa Bours (Netherlands)
Karoline Dam Mortensen (Denmark)
Nicoline Kofoed (Denmark)
Emma Hojlund (Denmark)
Kristina Kallberg (Sweden)
Erica Fronth (Sweden)

six wins out of 15 games. The German and French girls were too strong this time! The tournament provided Maria with her first international experience. Well done to Tin Tin for winning the individual section. Read the ETTA report.