Maria Tsaptsinos: October 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

Sunday, 21 October 2018

Italian escapades

Maria is a member of the Tennistavolo Vallecamonica team in Italy, participating at the A1 division.
A report on the second weekend where the team drew 3-3 and videos of the first weekends can be found at YouTube.
versus Li Xiang
versus Stribikova
versus Barani
versus Loan

Thursday, 4 October 2018

EuropeanChampionships Away Win at Norway

Maria put England ahead by defeating Ilka Doval 3-1 (11-3, 11-7, 12-14, 11-9), then Tin Tin made it 2-0 versus Rebekka Carlsen (11-8, 11-7, 9-11, 11-4). Denise Payet unfortunately lost to Rikke Skattet 3-0 but Tin Tin made sure that England won by winning 3-1 verus Doval (12-10, 12-14, 11-9, 11-3).