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


Achievements

2018

  •  English Senior Nationals (Womens Doubles): Winner
  • English Under21s Nationals: Runner Up
  • Commonwealth Games Team Event: Bronze

 2017

  •  English Senior Nationals (Womens Doubles): Winner
  • BUCS Individual Gold
  • English Under21s Nationals: Runner Up
2016

  •  English Senior Nationals (Womens Doubles): Winner
  •  English Under21s Nationals: Winner
  • BUCS Champions with Nottingham University
2015

  • Junior Masters: Winner
  •  Women's British League (Premier Division): Winner
  •  English Senior Nationals (Womens Doubles): Winner
  •  English Under21s Nationals: Runner up
  • Czech Junior Open (Doubles): Runner up

2014
  • Junior Nationals: Winner (Singles and Doubles)
  • Junior Nationals: Runner Up (Mixed Doubles)
  • English Under21s Nationals: Winner
  • English Senior Nationals (Doubles): Runner up
  • Women's British League (Premier Division): Winner
  • Home 6 Nations (Team): Winner
  • Home 6 Nations (Individual): Winner
2013
  • Women's British League (Premier Division): Winner
  • Junior Nationals: Winner (Singles & Doubles)
  • Junior Nationals: Runner Up (Mixed Doubles)
  • Junior Masters: Silver
  • English Senior Nationals: Semifinalist (doubles)
  • 6 Nations Team Event (Juniors): Silver
  • 6 Nations Singles (Juniors): Silver
  • Malta Junior Open (Team event): Gold
  • Malta Junior Open (Individuals): Silver
  • Malta Junior Open (Doubles): Silver
  • English Schools Nationals: Silver
  • Six Nations School (Team Event): Gold
  • Six Nations School (Individual): Gold
  •  Bribar Guildford Grand Prix: winner of band 2, finalist of band 1
  • Sainsbury's UK School Games: Gold (Invidividual), Silver (Team Event - South West)
  • Chandler's 4* Juniors: Winner

2012  

  • Junior British League (First Division): Winner 
  • 6 Nations Singles (Cadets) : Winner
  • 6 Nations Team Event (Cadets): Winner
  • UK Schools Team Event: Winner (Gold)
  • Cadet Masters: Winner
  • Bribar Guildford grand prix: winner of bands 2 and 3, finalist of women's open singles
  • Junior Nationals: Winner (girls doubles)
2011
  • U14s Nationals Singles : Winner
  • U14s Nationals Doubles : Finalist 
  • 4th position for the Cadet Masters (out of 14) 
  • Sussex 4* Cadets: Winner 
  • Stockton 4* Cadets: Winner 
  • Berkshire County Closed: Winner of the Women's, Mixed Doubles and Ladies Doubles titles. 
  • Cadet Nationals Singles: Winner

2010 
  • U14s Nationals Doubles : Finalist 
  • U13s Nationals Singles: Semi-Finalist 
  • Part of the winning team (southern region) for the Regional Squad championships, Doncaster, April 25th
  • Cadet Nationals: Finalist
2008
  • U11s Nationals Singles: Finalist
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