Maria Tsaptsinos: County senior premier division

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, 3 February 2013

County senior premier division

The Berkshire team competed at the Wood Green Academy for the second and final weekend and managed an incredible joint first position. The team consisting of Dave Barr, Liam McTiernan, Bradley King, Megan Knowles and Maria were awarded though the second position due to inferior to the number of sets in comparison to Middlesex. This weekend the team had three wins against Sussex (6-4), Yorkshire (7-3), Essex (6-4) and a draw with Derbyshire (5-5).

Maria's contribution was 6 wins out of 8.

3-1 vs Rose Rainton (11-7, 11-7, 5-11, 11-9)
3-2 vs Abbie Milwain (9-11 11-6 9-11 11-8 12-10)
3-0 vs Sarah Noutch (11-6 11-5 11-7)
3-0 vs Nicole Finn (11-2 11-3 11-1)
3-0 vs Sarra Wang (15-13 13-11 11-4)
3-0 vs Evangeline Collier (11-6 11-5 11-5)

Maria lost to Yolanda King 3-2 (11-8 12-14 11-8 10-12 8-11) and Emma Vickers 3-0 (6-11 7-11 9-11)