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


Wednesday, 18 July 2018

Commonwealth Games: Looking Back

Gold Coast 2018 was Maria's first Commonwealth Games. She competed in the table tennis event at Oxenford Studios and won bronze in the women's team.

In the words of BBC "You'd want her on your team! " Watch Maria's incredible enthusiasm in the following link.


Ping Pong Passion

Read Maria's story at the Commonwealth Games site as she reveals her motivation behind table tennis success.

The local press release is here as well.


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