Maria Tsaptsinos: Bristol Grand Prix 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.

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Monday, 18 November 2013

Bristol Grand Prix Results

After a mix up with entries (all dads fault) Maria only participated at the Women's Open on Sunday the 17th of November. The competition took place at the University of West England Sport Center.
Maria reached the quarter finals where she lost to England's number two Jo Drinkall (-6 -9 -7) after winning her group with straight wins against Erin Thompson (8 5 -8 5), Emily Bolton (6 5 7) and Amy Humpries (7 7 11) and then first round win over Yuki Wat in an exciting five setter where Yuki at 2-1 and 10-9 up missed what it is called an unmissable shot which allow Maria to come back. Yuki won the first set 8-11, Maria equalized with another 13-11 score, Yuki took the third set 7-11, Maria made it two all with another 13-11 and finally Maria was victorious with a 11-6 fifth set.