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, 10 November 2012

Hungarian Open: Singles Day 2

Following yesterday's win Maria this morning beat Chloe Thomas from Wales 3-0 (11-4, 11-8, 11-6). The next and final qualifying game is later today (1:25 UK time) against the Dutch girl. She lost 11-5 11-5 11-9 to the Dutch girl but her second position n the group gave her a spot at the main draw.

At the main draw Maria lost to Linda Bergstrom from Sweden 4-0 (5-11, 5-11, 8-11, 8-11).

Maria was the 14th youngest player in her first european tournament for Junior girls and hopefully the experience will benefit her for the forthcoming ones.

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