Maria Tsaptsinos: October 2017

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, 9 October 2017

British League: The Second Weekend

Maria, recently arriving back from Poland, joined the Kingfisher team for the second weekend of the British League (7-8 October). This took place at Nottingham and Maria won 5 out of 8 matches helping the team to be currently joint second. The team consistent of Marcus Giles, Dan Basterfield, Jamie Liu and
Reece Chamdal.

Maria's results were:

Opponent	Team	Date	Score	Result
Patricia Ianau	London Academy I	07/10/2017	11-9 11-7 11-9	Win
Gabriel Achampong	London Academy I	07/10/2017	10-12 9-11 11-9 11-6 9-11	Loss
Israel Awolaja	Wymondham	07/10/2017	11-6 8-11 11-8 3-11 8-11	Loss
Omar Khassal	Wymondham	07/10/2017	11-8 11-5 8-11 7-11 11-3	Win
Joe Killoran	Halton I	08/10/2017	11-5 11-4 11-5	Win
Amirul Hussain	Halton I	08/10/2017	11-7 8-11 11-13 11-5 11-7	Win
Keir Morton	Drumchapel Glasgow II	08/10/2017	11-6 8-11 11-7 9-11 10-12	Loss
Sepehr Bidari	Drumchapel Glasgow II	08/10/2017	10-12 8-11 11-7 11-9 11-6	Win

Source: British League

Sunday, 8 October 2017

Polish Open

Between the 4th of October and the 8th of October Maria participated at the Polish Open taking place at Czestochowa.

For the Under 21s Maria (423 ranked) had to face Filippa Bergand (Sweden, 381 ranked) and Angelika Janik (Poland, 801 ranked) for the group stage. Maria had a 3-1 win over Angelika (7 -9 6 4) and 3-2 win over Filippa (7 -8 9 -5 9). At the round of 64 though she lost to Yuan Wan (Germany, 185 ranked) 3-0 (-8 -5 -8).

Maria was eliminated at the group stage after a win versus Natalia Grigelova (Slovakia, 524 raked) with a 4-1 score (5, 6, 7, -9, 5) and a loss to Pauline Chasselin (France, 189 ranked) with a 4-1 score (-8 -8 -7 7 -6).

As for doubles the usually successful team of Maria and Tin Tin failed at the first hurdle to the Czech duo of STRBIKOVA Renata and TOMANOVSKA Katerina (-6 -9 -5)