Maria Tsaptsinos: Junior & Cadet 6 Home Nations

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

Monday, 11 March 2013

Junior & Cadet 6 Home Nations

Over the weekend an eight-man team head to Preston’s Sir Tom Finney Sports Centre to take on Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Guernsey and Isle of Man. Maria was part of the Junior Team, with Lois Peake and particpated at the team event and singles. The Welsh junior girls were the only side to break the English dominance on the team events resulting in the second place for Maria and Lois. For the individual event Maria was seeded number 2 with Charlotte Carey as the number 1. Maria won her four group games (all but one by 3-1, the interesting thing is that she lost the first set every time!) and then faced co-patriot Lois Peake. Carrying on the "tradition" she lost the first set 11-9 but subsequently won 11-8, 11-3, 11-4 to reach the final whereas she lost 3-0 to Charlotte but in three very close games (11-7, 12-10, 12-10).