Today Maria has started competing for the Hungarian Open Singles. For her qualifying group (group 18) Maria ranked 77th (out of 93) she has to face Ingrida Preidziute (Lithuania, ranked 38th ), Chloe Thomas (Walses, ranked 76th) and Alice Barendrest (Netherlands, ranked 34th ). For the first game she defeated Ingrida 3-0 (11-7 11-8 11-7) with the next two games scheduled for tomorrow.
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
Friday, 9 November 2012
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