Maria Tsaptsinos: March 2018

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, 5 March 2018

All sort of medals at the Nationals

During the four days of nationals Maria came home with a gold medal for the women's doubles (with Kelly Sibley), a silver medal for the Under 21s and a bronze for women's singles and mixed doubles (with Tom Jarvis). Another great collection of medals demonstrating how she deserved her Commonwealth collection and boosting Maria for the forthcoming games.

Thursday, 1 March 2018

World Cup Results

The Women's team lost to Hong Kong 3-1 and to Singapore 3-0 at the World Cup games.
Reports of the games can be found here.
Maria says to local paper Reading Chronicle that England have learned from Team World Cup.