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


Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Senior British League: Final Weekend

Maria was asked to represent the OLOP Impact club for the final weekend of the Senior British League (23-24 Feb) at Cippenham. This was her first time playing for the OLOP club and also for the League which allows mixed gender players, hence a weekend playing against men was anticipated to be difficult to say the least.

The team lost to Crusaders 7-1 with Maria losing to B. Larcombe 3-1 (11-9 6-11 13-15 4-11) and to M. Dawood Basha 3-0 (7-11 13-15 4-11).

A win against TTC Corwall with 5-3 brought Maria two wins; 3-2 against M. Trevorrow (9-11 11-9 11-4 6-11 11-5) and 3-1 against G. Bufton (6-11 11-6 11-8 11-9). Maria was declared the player of the match.

Another win against Sportingbet Guernsey with 6-2 gave the team another two points. Maria had one win against D. Morgan (11-8 8-11 11-7 11-7) and a defeat against A. Langlois (4-11 7-11 8-11).

The team also lost 8-0 to Greenhouse Progress I with Maria taking a rest for that match.

The team of David Barr, Daniel Moses, Daniel McTiernan, Harri Gehlot and Maria finished third for the Division 1 South.



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