Maria Tsaptsinos: European Youth

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

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

European Youth - Team Report

The England Cadet team of Tin Tin Ho, Maria Tsaptsinos and Lois Peake were in Group F with Latvia and Switzerland. Unfortunately, despite that all teams ended up with one win and one loss England finished third, therefore their next games were to determine positions 29th and below. This is a system that does not really reflect the quality of our team since with one bad game you are relegated to such positions.
England lost to Latvia 3-0

MAKHAURI, Insana (LAT)

144 TSAPTSINOS, Maria (ENG)

11 : 5

10 : 12

11 : 2

11 : 3

3 : 1

England beat Switzerland 3-2

144 TSAPTSINOS, Maria (ENG)

491 REUST, Celine (SUI)

13 : 11

2 : 11

11 : 9

7 : 11

5 : 11

2 : 3

44 TSAPTSINOS, Maria (ENG)

492 LINKE, Camille-Chloe (SUI)

11 : 6

1 : 11

11 : 7

3 : 1

Then England beat Finland 3-0

144 TSAPTSINOS, Maria (ENG)

176 KIRITCHENKO, Anna (FIN)

1 : 11

11 : 6

11 : 5

15 : 13

3 : 1

and Luxemburg with the same score (Maria was rested)

Next game saw us winning against Luxembourg 3-0

144 TSAPTSINOS, Maria (ENG)

33 MAMMADOVA, Dinara (AZE)

11 : 6

11 : 3

11 : 5

3 : 0