Maria Tsaptsinos: December 2011

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, 19 December 2011

2011 Portugal Youth Open: Individual Results

Overall,Maria had 9 wins out of all her games, with 6 of them against players who had many more points to her. Noticeable results the wins against Italy's no1 (1230 points) and Slovakia's no1 twice (1136 points). This is her second european experience and it showed especially on the second round of the singles when she lost despite being two sets up.