Cadet Nationals: Reaching the Final

Runners Up medal

Unseeeded Maria had a superb day beating both No 4 seed Megan Knowles and No 2 Seed Emma Torkington in earlier rounds to reach the cadet final at the nationals that took place at Hatfield on the 21st of November 2010.
At the group stage the results were:
Nicole Bird vs Maria: 11-7, 3-11, 8-11, 7-11
Isobel Ashley vs Maria:11-8, 11-6, 11-6
Eda Aydin vs Maria:11-8, 7-11, 3-11, 5-11

 which meant going through to the second round, to face number 4 seed and fellow Berkshire player Megan Knowles at the quarter finals.
Maria produced a superb performance in terms of dominating the flow of play, consistency and concentration to win 3-1(11-8, 9 -11, 11-9, 13-11). Next for the semi-final she played Emma Torkington the number 2 seed and again a concentrated effort produced yet another great win (10-12, 11-8, 11-8,11-8). On the final the unbeatable, for the moment, Tin Tin Ho won 3-0.

Stockton On Tees 4*

Maria with her winning prize

On Sunday, 31st of October, Maria won the grade 1 Junior girls singles against Laura Higham (3-1).
On the group stage she beat Eszter Soos and Hannah Lynch Dawson (both with a 3-0 scoreline); and on the semi final had a  comfortable win against Lucy Zhu with 3-0.

On Sunday morning for Juniors she had in her group Katie McGlone (U13s finalist from Ireland) which she beat easily 3-0 but then lost to Charleigh Kirby 3-1 so she was out.

On Saturday for Cadets she beat Lucy Elliott from Scotland 3-0, Hannah Lynch Dawson of Ireland 3-1 to qualify. For Round 16 she beat Elayna McGlone from Ireland 3-0 but lost to Isobel Ashley 3-0 (two sets on 13-11).

ETTA report

New Rankings

A very good performce during October moved Maria to the 5th place of the Cadets (previously 8) and to the 28th place of the Junior Girls (previously 44) by breaking the 1000 point barrier (existing points: 1089)! Lets hope for a similar performce during November!

Junior County Championships

Berkshire young guns win Junior County Championship Division

A very talented and young Berkshire Junior (under 18) team won the County Championships Division 1B (South) at the weekend of 16-17th of October by winning all seven of their matches.

Starting in Okehampton on Saturday, Berkshire played very well in beating Cornwall (8-2), Glamorgan (9-1) and finally hosts Devon (7-3). On Sunday the championships resumed in Bristol where Berkshire beat Dorset, Avon, Essex 2 all with an impressive10-0, and finally Surrey (9-1). This is the second year running that that Berkshire have gained promotion and they will start next season in the nation's top division – the Premier.
Maria's average: 10 wins out of 14.

Junior British League.

Girls Team of the Tournament (Helen, Chelsea and Maria)

The 2010-11 Junior British League commenced last weekend at the Aldersley Leisure Village in Wolverhampton. The St Andrew's team consisting of Chelsea Furnival, Helen Rutherford and Maria stand proudly at the first position of the Girls Second Division Table after having played against 5 other teams. The team was also awarded the Girls Team Of The Tournament.


Maria's individual scores were:

vs Daniella Gray of Waterside: Won 3-1
vs Lucy Zhu of Waterside: Won 3-1
vs Abigail GRIFFITH of Oldham: Won 3-0
vs Nicole FINN of Oldham: Won 3-2
vs Tracey SIMPSON of Morpeth Greenhouse : Won 3-0
vs Chantal WILSON  of Morpeth Greenhouse : Won 3-1
vs Laura FINN of Ulster: Won 3-0
vs Emma LUDLOW of Ulster: Won 3-0
vs Ella Patel of Peniel: Won 3-1
Pos Club P W D L EF EA GF GA Pts Ave
1 St Andrews 5 5 0 0 85 24 27 3 10 2.00
2 Oldham TTC 5 4 0 1 71 45 19 11 8 1.60
3 Waterside 5 3 0 2 67 59 17 13 6 1.20
4 Team Peniel 5 0 2 3 42 70 11 19 2 .40
5 Morpeth Greenhouse TTK B 5 0 2 3 48 71 10 20 2 .40
6 Ulster A 5 0 2 3 35 79 6 24 2 .40

Reading and District Table Tennis Association

Maria is part of the Polish B team led by Graham Diplock participating at Division 1. For Results and Fixtures follow the links.This is a very competitive division providing valuable experience to Maria.

Liverpool 4*

The weekend of the 2nd and 3rd of October Maria participated at the City of Liverpool four star tournament  for Cadets, Band 1 Cadets, Juniors and Band 1 Juniors. For the Band 1 Juniors Maria qualified for the knock out stages as group winner and successfully negotiated her first round encounters to reach the quarter-finals.For the Juniors again she reached the quarter finals losing on the fifth to Charleigh Kirby. For the Cadets top seed Emma Torkington (Sx) had a 2-0 lead against Maria and 15 all for the final set but Maria won the next two points, though, went the way of Miss Tsaptsino as did the remaining games which cemented her place at the top of the group earning her a last eight clash with Miss Slott who won 11-7 in the fifth.

Girls’ Last 16
C Whyte bt H Rutherford 6, 6, 6; M Knowles bt J Gibson 5, 8, -7, 9; A Milwain I Ashley 6, 11, 5; E Collier bt J Birbeck 5, 3, 9; J Dawson bt S Miah 8, 8, 6;
M Jasmin bt S Neil -7, 7, 7, 9; C Kirby bt L Zhu 9, 8, 8; M Tsaptsinos bt C Spencer 5, 8, 9;
Q/F Whyte bt Knowles 6, 6, 7; Milwain bt Collier 5, 8, -8, 4; Dawson bt Yasmin 6, 9, 9;  Kirby bt Tsaptsinos 9, -4, 10, -3, 8;
S/F Milwain bt Whyte 6, 7, -8, 7; Dawson bt Kirby 10, -3, 9, 8;
Final: Dawson bt Milwain 8, 10, -8, 3;
Girls’ Band one Last 16
E Collier bt N Finn 4, 8, 5;  M Tsaptsinos bt L Zhu 6, 7, 6;   E Torkington bt L Higham 0, 7, 9;  C Kirby bt H Taylor 11, 3, 5; S Neil bt C Slott 9, 9, 9; M Jasmin bt S Miah -7, 5, 5, 9;
N Jackson bt D Gray -6, 6, 8, -9, 7; J Birbeck bt M Slatter 8, -10, -5, 9, 4;
Q/F Collier bt Tsaptsinos 6, 9, -7, -7, 6; Kirby bt Torkington -7, 7, 5, -6, 7; Jasmin bt Neil 7, 8, -3, 9; Birbeck bt Jackson -10, -8, 9, 5, 10;
S/F Kirby bt Collier -8, -9, 5, 2, 6;  Jasmin bt Birbeck 7, -7, 6, 0 (nil)
Final: Kirby bt Yasmin 6, 6, 9;