Maria Tsaptsinos: Hot and Cold at Sussex 4*

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, 17 September 2012

Hot and Cold at Sussex 4*

Following the brilliant performance at the Guildford Grand Prix Maria was disappointed with her results at the weekend at K2 Crawley, West Sussex. Two semi final loses on the fifth!

For the Junior Girls Singles Maria had two 3-0 wins at the group stage against Shannon Conway (11-2 11-6 11-4) and Naomi Jackson (11-8 11-6 11-8), a 3-1 win against Lucy Zhu at the Quarter Final stage (11-7 13-15 11-6 11-8) and lost 3-2 to Tressa Armitage on the fifth (9-11, 12-10, 11-13, 11-7, 7-11).

For theJunior Girls Band 1 Maria had two 3-0 wins at the group stage against Ella Patel (11-9 11-8 11-5) and Lucy Zhu (11-9 11-2 11-5), a Quarter Final win against Naomi Jackson (11-3 11-4 11-2) and then lost on another five setter to the eventual winner Yuki Wat (4-11 11-9 11-7 9-11 9-11).