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, 10 June 2012

6 Cadet Nations Report

The six cadet nations tournament took place in Holland over the weekend. The countries of England, France, Germany, Denmark, Holland and Sweden and the respective players participated at the team event and the singles.

For the team event the girls finished 5th. The team consisted of Maria, Lois Peake, Lucy Zhu and Olivia Churchill.

One win over Denmark with 6-4 (Maria contributing two single wins against Nicoline Koefoed 1-11 4-11 4-11 and Sofie Egeholt  8-11 7-11 5-11 and a doubles win with Lois 9-11 5-11 8-11)


Lost to France 6-4 (Maria contributing a singles win over Eloïse Saint Dizier 11-3 9-11 6-11 9-11 and a doubles win partnering Lois 11-5 7-11 10-12 11-4 10-12)

Lost to Germany and Sweden 9-1 (Maria won one singles games against the Swedish girl Kristina Kallberg 8-11 6-11 13-11 11-9 7-11)


Drew with Netherlands 5-5 (Maria won against Amber Van De Velde 11-8 10-12 6-11 7-11 and won the doubles 10-12 11-9 6-11 3-11)


Therefore in 15 games including singles and doubles Maria won 8 times. 
Considering just the singles she won 5 out of 10.




For the singles, Maria was in group A with Melisssa Bours (Holland) , Leill Mostafavi (France), Emilie Jaffeux (France),Selja Fazlic (Germany),Malin Nilsson (Sweden) and Sofie Egeholt (Demnark).

Lost to Melissa 11-13 6-11 11-5 7-11
Lost to Leill 11-6 10-12 4-11 16-18
Lost to Emilie (and overall winner of the competition at the end) 11-8 14-12 11-13 8-11 11-8
Won against Selja 11-7 11-9 12-10
Won against Malin 11-8 11-2 11-7
Won against Sofie 11-3 12-10 11-9

to finish joint 3rd.


Friday, 8 June 2012

Cadet Masters Video

Watch the game against Tin Tin Ho for the Cadet Masters (2012), all 5 sets.

set 1

set 2

set 3

set 4

set 5

Thursday, 7 June 2012

European Championships

Maria has been selected for the prestigious tournament in July in Austria to represent England as a Cadet with Tin Tin Ho and Lois Peake

Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Polish open day two

Delayed news. The team reached the semifinal where they lost to a strong German team. For the individual events Maria went through the group stage but lost next round.
For more details check ETTA report

Friday, 1 June 2012

Polish open day one

The England team of tin tin and Maria went through the group stage as group winners beating Austria A, Poland B and a mixed team of chech and new Zealand.
Then they went through to the next round after a 3-0 win against Poland C