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


Monday, 23 February 2015

Czech Junior Open

Silver Medalists
A great performance by Maria and Tin Tin who reached the final of the doubles only to lose 3-0 to the number 1 seeds from Japan. On their way to the final the number 9 seeds notably beat the second seeds from France. 








Round of 32
Tin-Tin Ho & Maria Tsaptsinos beat Kyojin Ku & Yubin Shin (KOR) 3-2 (9-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-13, 12-10)
Round of 16
Tin-Tin Ho & Maria Tsaptsinos beat Izabela Lupulesku (SRB) & Valeria Shcherbatykh (RUS) 3-2 (8-11, 5-11, 11-8, 12-10, 11-9)
Quarter-finals
Tin-Tin Ho & Maria Tsaptsinos beat Pauline Chasselin & Marie Migot (FRA) 3-0 (11-6, 12-10, 11-4)
Semi-finals
Tin-Tin Ho & Maria Tsaptsinos beat Luisa Sager & Jennie Wolf (GER) 3-0 (11-9, 11-9, 11-6)
Final
Tin-Tin Ho &  Maria Tsaptsinos lost to Rira Ishikawa & Ayane Morita (JPN) 0-3 (9-11, 7-11, 8-11)

For the singles Maria had two wins at Group 21
Maria Tsaptsinos beat Karolina Lalak (POL) 3-1 (5-11, 11-6, 12-10, 11-3)
 Maria Tsaptsinos beat Kamila Sikorova (CZE) 3-0 (11-7, 11-4, 11-5)
and then another win
Maria Tsaptsinos beat Luisa Sager (GER) 4-1 (10-12, 11-5, 11-8, 11-9, 11-6)
but lost at last 32 round
 Maria Tsaptsinos lost to Marie Migot (FRA) 1-4 (11-7, 5-11, 7-11, 5-11, 8-11)
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Tuesday, 10 February 2015

Womens British League

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The second weekend of the Women's British League took place at Doncaster last weekend. The Ormesby team won their third consecutive Premier British title in a very convincing manner, dropping only two games in total (one per weekend).
In the words of Table Tennis England report "The quartet of Karina Le Fevre, Maria Tsaptsinos, Sarah Berge and Chloe Whyte will go down as one of the most dominant teams ever, few will be able to replicate their performance".
 
Listen to an interview of Alan Ransome (coach of Ormesby) at the end of the weekend. Reports for all rounds can be found here.


  Maria's individual statistics read Played 20 Won 19 (95%). In the three years Maria has represented the club she has won won 44 out of 48 games.
Rosemary Rainton, Knighton Park 11-3 11-4 11-7
Karen Smith. Knighton Park 11-5 11-7 7-11 11-2
Gillian Edwards. Halton TTC 11-5 11-3 11-2
Janay Elizabeth Gibson, Halton TTC 1 11-6 11-8 11-3
Sophie Neil, Burton Uxbridge TTC 12-10 11-3 11-5
Kate Hughes, Burton Uxbridge TTC 11-3 11-7 11-6
Yolanda King, YHL 11-9 8-11 10-12 11-1 11-6
Rachel Trevorrow, YHL 11-4 11-5 16-14
Emma Vickers, Draycott East Midlands 1 11-8 11-9 11-8
Alice Loveridge, Draycott East Midlands 1 7-11 8-11 11-8 8-11
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