Maria Tsaptsinos: Sainsbury's school games 2012 Day One

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, 7 May 2012

Sainsbury's school games 2012 Day One

First day at the Excel Exhibition Centre and Maria is part of the England South West team with Vicky Smith, Chrissie Slot and Megan Knowles.
The team was in group S and they faced England North West, Wales and Scotland.
At the end they finished second following 7-0 wins against England North West and Scotland and a narrow loss by 4-3 to Wales.

Maria's Individual Results
Against North West
J Gibson v Maria 3-11,5-11,5-11
J Gibson/E Bolton v M Tsaptsinos/V Smith 11-6,5-11,8-11,8-11
D Eden v Maria 5-11,3-11,4-11

Against Wales

Maria v C Carey 7-11,9-11,10-12
M Tsaptsinos/V Smith v C Carey/N Hall 8-11,9-11,11-7,12-14
Maria v N Hall 11-7,11-4,6-11,8-11,11-7

Against Scotland
L Elliott v Maria 4-11,6-11,11-5,10-12
J Hart/L Stirling v V Smith/M Tsaptsinos 11-8,7-11,11-13,9-11
J Hart v Maria 7-11,7-11,5-11