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


Friday, 30 May 2014

Polish Junior Open

The Polish Junior Open tournament is taking place on the 28 May 2014 to the 1st of June 2014, at Wladyslawowo.

An ENG/WEL team with Maria, Tin Tin Ho and Charlotte Carey were drawn on group G to face Lithuania and Poland A. As a team they beat Lithuania 3-1 (Maria winning 3-0 against SOKOLOVSKYTE Jolita with 11-6, 11-5, 11-8) but lost to Poland A 3-1 (Maria winning 3-2 against KNYSZEWSKA Paulina with 11-6, 11-13, 6-11,12-10, 12-10). Maria was playing as the number 3.

The good results at the team event balanced a little bit the results for the singles event where Maria was drawn in a group with Chinese Taipei, Russian and German girls. Maria lost 11-7, 11-4, 11-9 to LIN Chia-Hsuan from TPE; 11-7, 3-11, 11-13, 9-11 to KAMMERER Janina from GER; 14-12, 8-11, 11-5, 11-6 to CHERNYAVSKAYA Ekaterina from RUS. The Maria lost in the first round of the consolation 11-9,18-16,11-9 to another German girl KAIM Julia. For the doubles Maria and Tin lost 7-11,9-11,12-10,11-6,9-11 to CAREY Charlotte/LINKE Camille-Chloe. The Polish tournament is as always very competitive with more than 40 countries competing from Europe and Asia.

Overall, the English teams failed to make a mark and the only notable exception was Tin Tin reaching the Quarter Finals of the Singles main draw.

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