Maria Tsaptsinos: Sussex 2*

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

Saturday, 14 January 2012

Sussex 2*

Twelve girls competed for the Sussex tournament which run similar to the master series. There were two groups and Maria had to face tin tin Ho (loosing 3-0 in a game that could had gone either way), Emma torkington (3-1 loss first game, Maria was late arriving so she did not have any practice), Emma tovey and Ella patel (Maria won 3-0 both games )
Notably at the group stage a great win against tressa armitage by 3-1!
Then she had to face the welsh sisters phillips losing 3-0 and 3-1 and she beat yuki 3-1 to end 4th overall, two places above her initial seeding. Tin tin was the overall winner and the surprise was that yolanda king failed to qualify from her group.