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


Sunday, 19 March 2017

British League - Final Weekend

The Kingfisher team of Dave Barr, Marcus Giles, Daniel Basterfield, Hari Gehlot and Maria participated at BATTS for the final weekend of the Championship Division of the British League.
The team played three games:
  • vs Cippenham. Won 7-1 with Maria having two wins against Robert Hansell (11-7 11-6 11-7)and Martin Gray (11-8 11-7 11-5) 
  • vs Ian Mclean (12-10 8-11 11-4 12-10) and Ryan Collins (11-6 11-5 9-11 11-6)
  • vs Nottingham Sycamore 1. Lost 5-2 with Maria winning against Shaquille Webb-Dixon (11-6 11-9 11-8) and losing to Ismaila Akindiya (6-11 7-11 11-6 2-11)
 Overall Maria played 20 games with a winning rate of 55%. Full Maria's results can be seen here and the team finished 5th overall.

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