Kingfisher II team - Senior British League

Maria, Harri, Federico and Takumi represented Kingfisher at the Senior British League (Div 3) at Wolverhampton. The team finished with 3 wins and 1 draw and currently are second and hopeful for promotion.





This is an interesting competition for Maria because she competes against men in the majority of the games. She was the second ranked player which meant she had to compete against the number ones and threes of the other clubs.

On Saturday the 13th of December we faced Elgre Draycott IV and Cliffedale Chandlers and won 6-2 and 7-1 respectively.
Maria's individual results are as follows:
Kate Hughes: w 3-0 (2, 7, 7)
Ben Willson: w 3-1 (-7, 6, 9, 5)
Karl Brown: w 3-0 (5, 4, 7)
Danny Cox: w 3-0 (4, 8, 5)

On the following day we faced Wood Green (won 7-1) and the current leaders Whitworth Academy I (drew 4-4), and Maria's results were:
Jamie Davies: w 3-1 (9, -8, 10, 4)
Jesse Kendrick-Hill: w 3-0 (11, 7, 6)
Samuel Perry: l 2-3(-10, 10, 4, -6, -8)
Edward Lynn: w 3-1 (7, 9, -9, 11)

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Finlandia Open 2014

Maria's first senior tournament at Finland, 4th to the 7th of December 2014, provided a platform to test her abilities. Maria travelled to Finland with Karina Le Fevre and they were unfortunate to meet at the first round the fifth seeds of the team event from Poland. They lost 3-0 with Maria playing Magdalena Siroska with a World ranking of 211 and managed to get one set (-6 12 -8 -5). Maria is currently ranked 506th at the Seniors with 1297 points.
The following days, for singles, Maria finished 51st overall with 4 wins and 3 losses.

• Rei Yamamoto (Japan): 0-4 (-7, -3, -8, -4)
• Elena Dubkova (Bulgaria, WR163,  1985 points) : 4-0 to Maria (walk over)
• Irina Ermakova (Russia, WR293, 1719 points): 2-4 (-8, 6, 4, -10, -9, -6)
• Anna Ivannikova (Russia, WR468, 1377 points): 4-0 (6, 6, 11, 8)
• Alexandra Falarz (Poland, WR430, 1436 points): 4-3 (-9, 9, 8, -5, 6, -8, 6)
• Rahel Aschwanden (Switzerland, WR247, 1797 points): 0-4 (-5, -9, -8, -6)
• Michaella Karlsson (Sweden, WR428, 1448 points): 4-3 (-9, -9, -11, 3, 5, 6, 9)