Filming with the BBC

With Richard Wisker presenter of Friday Download

Maria spent three hours today filming for the Friday Download BBC programme together with fellow players Michael Ho and Chris Doran. This episode will be shown sometime in November and introduces table tennis to the audience.

A great experience!

The crew in action

Being interviewed

with Chris and Michael

Lots of smoke and lights!

The English Table Tennis Association International Selection

Maria has been invited for the 2012 Hungarian Junior Open commencing on the 8th of November. Considering this is her first year as a junior this has come as a pleasant surprise and on the other hand it feels like a reward for an excellent season she had last year.
The following link provides further information:

Weekend treble international selections — The English Table Tennis Association

Junior British League: Day Two

St Andrews faced Burton Uxbridge 1 and the Irish team today.

Maria won her first game against Isobel Ashley 3-0 (11-1 11-2 11-8). Despite having a match point on the fourth set Maria lost 3-2 to Vicky Smith (10-12 11-9 11-8 10-12 6-11). Unfortunately this was the only win for the team, losing 5-1.

The Irish team drew with St Andrews 3-3 with Maria losing the first game to Ashley Givan 3-0 (7-11  9-11 9-11 ) and winning against Hannah Lynch-Dawson 3-0 (11-6 11-1 11-5).

All Maria's statistics here Overall for the first weekend Maria had 7 wins out of 10 matches with the team finishing joint third. Here is to the next weekend in February 2013.

With Terry Dean

Junior British League: Results up to now

The first weekend of the Junior British League is taking place this weekend at Tipton Academy. Maria represents St Andrews team with Letitia McMullan and Naomi Jackson. Naomi was a last minute replacement for Lois Peake who unfortunately still has shoulder problems.

The first game was against Northfield Girls and St Andrews lost 4-2.
Maria beat Jessica Dawson 3-0 (11-7 12-10 11-8) and lost to Emily Bates on the fifth (8-11, 13-11, 11-3, 10-12, 5-11).

The second game was against the Welsh team. St Andrews won 4-2 with Maria being victorious against Nicole Hall and Charlotte Carey with the same score, 3-2. Against Nicole the scores were 11-6, 6-11, 11-4, 7-11, 11-9. Against Charlotte the scores were 11-8, 7-11, 11-9, 7-11, 11-8.

For the third game against Burton Uxbridge 2 St Andrews came top with a clean sheet, 6-0. Maria  contributed two wins and retired to the hotel with a very bad headache. The two wins were against Lucy Zhu (5-11 11-8 11-9 11-4)  and Nicole Finn (9-11 11-7 11-8 11-6)  with the same score 3-1.