Senior British League : Premier Division

Maria made her maiden appearance for the Kingfisher Senior Premier British League Team at London Academy on Sunday the 25th of January.
She played two games against Nottingham Sycamore I (currently joint leaders of the division) and lost to Adam Harrison 1-3 (10-12, 11-9, 1-11, 6-11) and beat Daniel Lowe 3-2 (7-11, 7-11, 11-6, 11-9, 11-8) coming back from a two set deficit.

What a great start to 2015!

Maria during a long weekend faced in a round robin fashion the other top 11 players that were invited to the Junior Masters for the 2014-15 season. Maria won the title impressively with 11 wins, all of them 3-0 including the last match versus her friend and number 1 junior Tin Tin Ho. Not certain yet but it seems that not dropping a set might be in the history books.

At the end Maria was quoted as follows "“I played some of the best table tennis I’ve ever played. I focused on every match – and every match was different. People have different styles and you’ve got to impose your games on them and not let them dominate." It was very impressive indeed that on both days Maria was concentrating against every opponent.

 The Table Tennis England report can be found here together with a list of the full results.

 vs Amy Blagbrough 9 6 9
vs Stephanie Cross 6 4 9
vs Katie Barlow 4 3 3
vs Kate Cheer 4 7 8
vs Bethany Farnworth 8 5 4
vs Isabelle Joubelly 6 7 4
vs Denise Payet 10 4 3
vs Amy Humphreys 3 6 9
vs Olivia Churchill 5 6 1
vs Lois Peake 10 9 3

vs Tin Tin Ho 9 6 11