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


Friday, 20 April 2012

French Open - Day One

Maria flew to Metz yesterday to take part at the 2012 French Junior & Cadet Open taking place at Metz, France. Day one for the cadets is the team event. The team comprising of Tin Tin Ho (13th seed) and Maria (27th seed) are in group E with Romania B, Belgium B and Scotland.

The first game was against Scotland and England won 3-0. Maria's results were:
  • CRAWFORD Rachel  vs   TSAPTSINOS Maria     7-11     3-11     6-11     -     -     0-3
  • ELLIOTT Lucy CRAWFORD Rachel  vs  HO Tin-Tin TSAPTSINOS Maria    3-11     6-11     13-15     -     -     0-3 
with Tin Tin winning her single.


The second game of the day was against Romania B and England won 3-2. Maria's results:
  • CRISAN Bianca (seed 18) vs    TSAPTSINOS Maria     9-11     11-2     11-5     9-11     4-11     2-3
  • DIACONU Adina SINGEORZAN Arina-Dora  vs  HO Tin-Tin TSAPTSINOS Maria    11-3     13-11     11-8     -     -     3-0  
  • DIACONU Adina (seed 12)  vs  TSAPTSINOS Maria     12-10     11-1     11-6     -     -     3-0 
with Tin Tin winning both her singles.

The third game was against Belgium B and England won 3-1. Maria's results:
  • LUNG Lisa (seed 39) vs TSAPTSINOS Maria 11 - 8, 11 - 13, 11 - 7, 11 - 8,   3 - 1
  • DEGRAEF Margo  LUNG Lisa  vs HO Tin-Tin TSAPTSINOS Maria 11 - 8, 6 - 11,  9 - 11, 8 - 11,  1 - 3
  • DEGRAEF Margo (seed 25) vs TSAPTSINOS Maria 10 - 12,  4 - 11, 6 - 11,  0 - 3
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with Tin Tin winning one singles.
The team was given a BYE for the next round and now they are scheduled to play Russia A for the Quarter Finals. The Russian team consists of CHERNOVA Daria (seed 5) and MALANINA Maria (seed 10).

Unfortunately England lost 3-0 to the strong Russian team. Maria's results:

  • Daria Chernova bt Maria Tsaptsinos 3-0 (11-6, 11-7, 11-8)
  • Chernova/Malanina bt Ho/Tsaptsinos 3-2 (10-12, 11-8, 5-11, 11-7, 11-7)

ETTA report about "The impressive pairing of Tin-Tin Ho and Maria Tsaptsinos...."

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