Maria Tsaptsinos: One Gold Two Silver Medals at Malta Open

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, 10 April 2013

One Gold Two Silver Medals at Malta Open

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)