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, 22 April 2013

English Schools: Silver Medal For Maria

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.




Results in detail

Vs Komal Mehta 11-4 11-1 11-3
Vs Beth Atkinson (no show)
Vs Shannon Johns 11-3 11-4 11-4
Vs Zahna Hall 15-13 11-6 11-7

Vs Jazmin Johns 11-4 11-7 11-9
Vs Emily Bolton 11-8 11-8 11-6
Vs Yuki Wat 11-8 11-4 11-8





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