Maria spent almost a week in sunny Malta for the ITTF Junior open tournament. At the team event Maria with Tin Tin Ho and Lois Peake were the eventual winners. The round robin results were as follows
England 3-0 Malta
Maria Tsaptsinos bt Therese Genovese 3-0 (11-8, 11-2, 11-3)
Lois Peake bt Amy De Gaetano 3-0 (11-2, 11-6, 11-7)
Tsaptsinos/Ho bt Genovese/De Gaetano 3-0 (11-4, 11-5, 11-8)
England 3-1 Poland
Katarzyna Galus bt Maria Tsaptsinos 3-1 (11-7, 9-11, 11-4, 11-4)
Tin-Tin Ho bt Sara Pytel 3-0 (14-12, 11-9, 11-2)
Tsaptsinos/Ho bt Galus/Pytel 3-0 (11-6, 11-4, 11-7)
Tin-Tin Ho bt Katazyna Galus 3-1 (10-12, 11-8, 11-6, 11-4)
England 3-0 DEN-CZE
Tin-Tin Ho bt Sofie Egeholt 3-0 (11-4, 11-6, 11-5)
Maria Tsaptsinos bt Veronika Tuslova 3-2 (11-5, 5-11, 8-11, 11-8, 11-9)
Peake/Ho bt Tuslova/Egeholt 3-0 (11-3, 11-4, 11-4)
England 3-0 Sweden
Tin-Tin Ho bt Anette Lundh 3-0 (11-6, 11-4, 11-5)
Maria Tsaptsinos bt Hedda Egerlid 3-1 (9-11, 11-9, 11-7, 11-9)
Ho/Peake bt Lundh/Egerlid 3-1 (11-4, 9-11, 11-8, 11-6)
For the individual event Maria had three wins to finish top of the group
Group 3
Maria Tsaptsinos bt Anette Lundh (SWE) 3-0 (12-10, 13-11, 11-4)
Maria Tsaptsinos bt Veronika Tuslova (CZE) 3-2 (11-3, 8-11, 5-11, 11-4, 11-7)
Maria Tsaptsinos bt Therese Genovese (MLT) 3-0 (11-5, 11-5, 11-1)
and then had a bye for the semifinals (Maria was ranked third but because the number one seed came second on her group the byes went to the second and third seeds)
Semi-Final
Maria Tsaptsinos bt Katarzyna Galus (POL) 4-0 (11-9, 11-7, 11-4, 11-8)
And at the final
Charlotte Carey (WAL) bt Maria Tsaptsinos 4-1 (11-2, 11-4, 7-11, 11-7, 12-10).
For the doubles Maria partnered Lois
Semi-Final
Tin-Tin Ho/Charlotte Carey (WAL) bt Katarzyna Galus/Sara Pytel (POL) 3-0 (11-4, 12-10, 11-7)
Lois Peake/Maria Tsaptsinos bt Hedda Egerlid/Anette Lundh (SWE) 3-2 (11-2, 11-7, 2-11, 9-11, 11-5)
Final
Tin-Tin Ho/Charlotte Carey (WAL) bt Lois Peake/Maria Tsaptsinos 3-1 (11-8, 9-11, 11-7, 11-7)
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Following 4 straight wins, all 3-0 at the group stage, a first round 3-0 win over Jasmine Johns, a quarter final 3-0 win against Emily Bolton and a semi final 3-0 win over Yuki Wat Maria faced Tin Tin Ho at the final and unfortunately lost. Overall though a very solid performance which it has resulted to a call up for the International Schools competition to be held end of June at the Isle of Man.+schools+2013.JPG)
