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, 21 March 2016

More Joy at the Nationals: Womens Doubles Winners

(Photo courtesy of Michael Lovender)
On Sunday, Maria and Tin Tin were crowned for the second year running national champions for the women's doubles in a repeat of last year's final versus Karina LeFevre and Emma Vickers with the same scoreline (3-1, 11-2, 16-4, 8-11, 11-7). In the previous rounds they faced Charlotte Bardsley/Sophie Barlow (11-8, 11-6, 11-5) and Letitia McMullan/Mollie Patterson (11-5, 11-7, 9-11, 11-5).
You can watch the final on YouTube 

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