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, 8 July 2013

Looking forward to the European Youths

The European Youth Championships are taking place at Ostrava of the Czech Republic, with the team event commencing on the 12th of July. The England Junior Girls team of Tin Tin, Maria, Lois and Emily have been drawn in Group G facing Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Norway and Armenia. Romania, Germany, France and Russia are the top seeds. The squad spent last week at EIS in Sheffield preparing for this prestigious tournament.

Good luck England!

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