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, 1 July 2013

Invitation International 2013 Isle of Man

South East Representatives
A successful  weekend at the isle of Man for Maria representing English Schools for the under 16s. Maria won two gold medals, for the team event with Yuki Wat winning 3-0 against Ireland and for the individual event where she faced her team mate Yuki. The final score was 3-2 with Maria winning the fifth set after trailing 9-5 with six consecutive points.
English Schools Team

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