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, 9 September 2012

Guildford Grand Prix: Sunday Results

Maria's Saturday tremendous performance continued on Sunday when she reached the final of the Women's Singles. She topped her group with four notable wins as follows:
bt Angharad Phillips 11-6 11-7 11-8
bt Sue Collier 4-11 11-3 7-11 11-8 11-8
bt Sophie Neil 7-11 11-6 13-11 11-2
bt Sarah Hornsell 11-5 11-9 6-11 11-6

At the Quarter Final stage she faced Chloe Thomas from Wales and despite that she found herself 7-0 down at the first set she eventually won by 3 sets to 0 (11-7 11-6 11-7). At the Semi Final stage another Welsh player was beaten, Megan Phillips at a close game by 3 sets to 2 (7-11 11-9 7-11 11-7 12-10).

At the Final Hannah Hicks the number 3 senior English player managed to inflict the first defeat of the weekend by 3-1 (3-11, 11-8 8-11 3-11).


Maria at the end of the weekend was also awarded the Player of the Tournament.
Under the eagle eye of dad
Having fun with Nicole Hall

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