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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Sunday, 16 March 2014

Success at the Home Six Nations Tournament

Over three days (Friday-Sunday, 14-16th of March) Maria represented England for the Home Six Nations taking place at Guernsey, at Junior Level.
Maria with her team mate Emma Torkington finished first at the Team Event beating 5-0 all other nations (Guernsey Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Guernsey B).
Maria's results:
vs Naomi Priest  Guernsey B 3-0 (1, 1, 1)
vs Charlotte Casey Guernsey B 3-0 (2, 3, 4)
vs Priest/Casey Guernsey B 3-0 (5, 2, 5)
vs Rachael Crawford Scotland 3-0 (9, 2, 2)
vs Lucy Elliott Scotland 3-1 (7, -5, 4, 6)
vs Crawford/Elliott 3-0 (6, 10, 7)
vs Cleo Rosumek Guernsey 3-0 (4, 5, 2)
vs Chloe Le Tissier Guernsey 3-0 (2, 0, 5)
vs Rosumek/Le Tissier 3-0 (7, 6, 4)
vs Laura Edwards Wales 3-1 (3, -9, 5, 6)
vs Soffi Jenkins Wales 3-0 (2, 5, 5)
vs Edwards/Jenkins 3-0 (8, 5, 11)
vs Emma Ludlow Ireland 3-0 (5, 4, 10)
vs Hannah Lynch-Dawson Ireland 3-0 (5, 10, 7)
vs Ludlow/Lynch-Dawson 3-0 (7, 8, 12)

On Sunday, the Individual group stage commenced and Maria won her group by winning against Charlotte Casey Guernsey B 3-0 (8, 5, 5) and Lucy Elliott Scotland 3-1 (-11, 13, 4, 9). For the Quarter Finals she met Rachael Crawford Scotland and progressed with a 3-1 (11, 10, -9, 2) and for the Semi Final won 3-0 against Hannah Lynch-Dawson Ireland (5, 5, 8) to face Emma Torkington at the final. Maria won the title 3-1 (-9, 6, 8, 14) to end another successful weekend of table tennis.

The official ETTA report can be found here

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