...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.
On the first day, for the team event Maria has won 4 out of her 7 games, one memorable win is against the Italian number1 who is also top10 in Europe. More to follow...
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