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


Sunday, 30 October 2011

Stockton 4* Brief Report

Maria participated in three events.
  • Cadets where she beat Ella Patel 3-0 at the final (3 8 8)
  • Team event: Ormesby team with Jessica Dawso. Reached the final where they lost 3-1 to Grantham Tornadoes consisting of Emily Bates and Angharad Phillips. Maria managed to get a set against Emily.
  • Juniors where she easily progressed through her group and then reached the quarter final which she lost to Angharad Phillips.

Saturday, 22 October 2011

Junior British League - First Weekend

The St Andrews team consisting of Maria, Lois Peake and Lettitia McMullan participated at the first JBL weekend at Tipton, Division 1.
The final table found St Andrews at the first position joint leaders with Bankfield with 2 wins and 3 draws. Maria played 10 games (8 wins 2 lost) therefore an average of 80%.
OPPONENT
TEAM DATE SCORE RESULT

E.Patel
BATTS A 22/10/2011 11-89-1111-612-10 Win
A.Gibson
BATTS A 22/10/2011 11-39-119-1111-611-8 Win
N.Jackson
Grantham Tornadoes 22/10/2011 4-115-1111-13 Win
E.Bolton
Grantham Tornadoes 22/10/2011 9-119-1111-13 Win
H.Taylor
Morpeth Greenhouse TTK 22/10/2011 11-911-54-1111-6 Win
M.Yasmin
Morpeth Greenhouse TTK 22/10/2011 3-119-1111-97-11 Loss
N.Finn
Bankfield 23/10/2011 13-1511-138-11 Win
J.Gibson
Bankfield 23/10/2011 11-411-55-1111-9 Loss
E.Roys
Burton Uxbridge 2 23/10/2011 12-1411-411-411-8 Win
M.Vaitkeviciute
Burton Uxbridge 2 23/10/2011 9-1111-311-811-9 Win            














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Monday, 10 October 2011

Honours for Maria

The ETTA Honours Committee has awarded Maria with the prestigious Mike Watts Achievement Award as the girl player who has made the greatest improvement in rating points in the period between 1st of August 2010 and 31st of July 2011. The annual award is presented to the most improved player within all categories of the ETTA ranking system. The official presentation will take place during the English Junior and Cadet Championships in November.