British Universities Champion

This weekend the BUCS ( British Universities and Colleges Sport) individual championships took place hosted by Nottingham University. On home soil Maria won the singles versus Beth Roberts and the mixed doubles, partnered with Daniel Reed. She also won silver for the womens doubles with her partner Yolanda King, losing 2-3, 9-11 on the fifth. The University Tble Tennis club had a successful entry since they won 9 medals in total (4 golds, 3 silvers and 2 bronze).
Full results can be found here

Statistics

Type	Played	Matches						Games				Points				Walkovers
Single	8	8	-			0	100.0%	24	-	3	88.9%	285	-	155	64.8%	0
Double	11	10	-			1	90.9%	32	-	4	88.9%	385	-	228	62.8%	0
Total	19	18	-			1	94.7%	56	-	7	88.9%	670	-	383	63.6%	0

Spanish Open: First Day

Maria's task at the first day of the Spanish Open it was always going to be difficult since she was facing opponents higher ranked than her. The first game was versus Selena Selvakumar of India (ranked 310) for the Under21s with Maria winning. The full video is available at the ITTF web pages. Unfortunately despite a good start against Xuan Zhang of Spain (ranked 223) again for the Womens Under 21 with a 11-6 first set she lost 3-1 (11-6 6-11 9-11 2-11). The third set was the deciding one with Maria 9-7 up and serving unfortunately the serves did not serve their purpose. This game is also available at ittf.com.

For the Womens Singles Maria lost both games to Yousra Helmy of Egypt (r 317) with a 2-4 score and Stephanie Loeuillette of France (r 132) with a 0-4 score.

Next day to come is Womens Doubles with Lois Peake being her partner.