Maria Tsaptsinos: December 2016

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

Saturday, 10 December 2016

Finlandia Open

After an absence of a year Maria returned to the European scene by attending the tournament in Finland, 8-11 of December.

For the singles Maria finished 41st with the following results:
vs Sarah Horgen (Norway) W 4-2 (-4 6 7 -8 8 9)
vs S. Mokhnacheva ( Russia) L 0-4 (-5 -6 -13 -4)
vs Carolina Tanska (Sweden) W 4-1 (-8 9 8 8 9)

vs Mireille Kroon (Switzerlan) W 4-1 (8 5 14 -10 3)

vs Anastasia Komova (Russia) L 2-4 ( -7 -6 6 10 -3 -8)

vs Michaela Karlsson (Sweden) L 1-4 ( -9 -8 12 -9 -7)

vs Daria Shadrina (Russia) W 4-3 (-7 -10 3 8 6 -9 7)

vs Anastasia Ziberova (Russia) W 4-0 (10 5 7 5)

vs Margo Degraef (Belgium) W 4-2 (10 -5 9 -6 8 8)