Maria Tsaptsinos: EYC: Results

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, 24 July 2013

EYC: Results

During the ten days at Ostrava Maria and the England team started extremely well by finishing first in the group beating Armenia, Norway, Bosnia and Austria.

vs Armenia (3-0) Maria's results

VARDANYAN, Rubina

TSAPTSINOS, Maria

4 : 11

2 : 11

6 : 11

0 : 3

vs Norway(3-2) Maria's results

TSAPTSINOS, Maria

AASEBØ, Anna Grutle

6 : 11

12 : 10

4 : 11

7 : 11

1 : 3

TSAPTSINOS, Maria

BERNER, Sara

8 : 11

11 : 7

11 : 2

11 : 4

3 : 1

vs Bosnia (3-2) Maria's results

MILOJICA, Sanja

TSAPTSINOS, Maria

11 : 9

12 : 10

5 : 11

8 : 11

7 : 11

2 : 3

HADZIAHMETOVIC, Emina

TSAPTSINOS, Maria

11 : 8

5 : 11

11 : 6

4 : 11

11 : 7

3 : 2

vs Austria (3-1) Maria's results

TSAPTSINOS, Maria

KELLERMANN, Sophia

11 : 5

11 : 6

3 : 0

Then the team had to face Italy for the playoff position to guarantee a 1 to 16 placement. Despite the team being the favorite on paper a surprised defeat for Tin Tin and Lois losing 3-2 from being 2 sets up - Maria played as the number three - meant that we lost 3-2.

LE THI HIONG, Loan

TSAPTSINOS, Maria

6 : 11

7 : 11

6 : 11

0 : 3

The defeat had an effect on the girls who lost to Lithuania 3-2

TSAPTSINOS, Maria

VENCKUTE, Vitalija

8 : 11

6 : 11

5 : 11

0 : 3

TSAPTSINOS, Maria

PREIDZIUTE, Ingrida

7 : 11

6 : 11

2 : 11

0 : 3

and to Greece 3-1

TSAPTSINOS, Maria

PARIDI, Konstantina

7 : 11

9 : 11

11 : 13

0 : 3

and finally winning 3-1 against Switzerland to finish 23th.

TSAPTSINOS, Maria

REUST, Celine

11 : 9

5 : 11

11 : 7

3 : 11

7 : 11

2 : 3

For the singles Maria faced Ashley Givan from Ireland and won 4 : 2 (8 -6 5 -9 5 4), then faced chopper and no26 Linda Bergstrom (SWE) and despite a good performance she lost 4-1 (4 -10 6 4 11). For the doubles Maria and Lois had a difficult draw against seeded RAKOVAC, Lea (CRO) and MANTZ, Chantal (GER) losing 3 : 1 (5 -6 4 4).

The best performances of Maria came for the mixed doubles, with Sam Walker when they beat the Slovakian pair PETER, Ingemar and JURKOVA, Eva 3 : 1 (4 14 -8 8); the Swedish pair JOHANSSON, Henrik and SODERLUND, Emma 3 : 0 (7 9 17) but finally lost to the Serbian pair KATIC, Ivor and TRUZSINSZKI, Viktoria (SRB) 3 : 0 (9 8 9).

Looking forward, if selected, to the next EYC at Riva del Garda, Italy.