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, 26 February 2012

The Swedish Experience

Maria participated at the Swedish Open for the Cadets. A lesson to be learned was not to have new rubbers the night before a tournament! One win was not enough to take her through to the knockout stage.
Lost to Panarina Maria from Russia 3-0 (4 7 7)
Lost to Kiritchenko Anna from Finland 3-1 (-9 10 10 6)
Beat Holmsten Ellen from Sweden 3-0 (7 6 7)

For the Safirs tournament and for the under 16s she beat Modert Michelle from Luxemburg 3-2 (-13, 5, -2. 5, 11) but then lost to Johansson Tilda 3-1 (-9, 9, 4, 11).

For the Safirs under 18s she reached the last 16 with the help of two withdraws (Folkesson Stine from Norway and Bergstrom Linda from Sweden) and a notable win against Ashley Givan from Ireland with 3-1 (7 8 -6 5). Then she had to face Yolanda King from England and lost 3-1 (4 -9 7 8) showing problems with dealing with Yolanda's serve.

All in all a mixed weekend in terms of results.




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