Maria Tsaptsinos: Junior British League: Day Two

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, 21 October 2012

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