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


Tuesday, 8 April 2014

ISF World Schools Championship

a point against Bulgaria
The ISF World Schools Championships are taking place at Clermont-Ferrant in France, 4th to the 10th of April. Maria, Tin Tin Ho, Emma Torkington and Yuki Wat are representing the National Selected Team of England.
The girls finished the team event with the bronze medal behind the clear favourites China and Chinese Taipei. The team started the competition by beating France, the hosts, by 4-3; followed by a win against Turkey with a 6-1 score, then lost 6-1 to Chinese Taipei,  followed by a good win against Bulgaria with 5-2. Next round they lost to China 7-0 but their win against Greece with 5-2 gave them the medal.
The ETTA report  for the first two days and for the final day there is another report provide more information. The report on individual rounds can be found here
The Girls

The England Squad














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