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


Saturday, 20 October 2012

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.

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