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Saturday 15th and Sunday the 16th of September 2012

European Youth - Team Report

The England Cadet team of Tin Tin Ho, Maria Tsaptsinos and Lois Peake were in Group F with Latvia and Switzerland. Unfortunately, despite that all teams ended up with one win and one loss England finished third, therefore their next games were to determine positions 29th and below. This is a system that does not really reflect the quality of our team since with one bad game you are relegated to such positions.
England lost to Latvia 3-0

MAKHAURI, Insana (LAT) - 144 TSAPTSINOS, Maria (ENG)

11 : 5

10 : 12

11 : 2

11 : 3

3 : 1

England beat Switzerland 3-2

144 TSAPTSINOS, Maria (ENG) - 491 REUST, Celine (SUI)

13 : 11

2 : 11

11 : 9

7 : 11

5 : 11

2 : 3

44 TSAPTSINOS, Maria (ENG) - 492 LINKE, Camille-Chloe (SUI)

11 : 6

1 : 11

11 : 7

11 : 7

3 : 1

Then England beat Finland 3-0

144 TSAPTSINOS, Maria (ENG) - 176 KIRITCHENKO, Anna (FIN)

1 : 11

11 : 6

11 : 5

15 : 13

3 : 1

and Luxemburg with the same score (Maria was rested)

Next game saw us winning against Luxembourg 3-0

144 TSAPTSINOS, Maria (ENG) - 33 MAMMADOVA, Dinara (AZE)

11 : 6

11 : 3

11 : 5

3 : 0

6 Cadet Nations Report

The six cadet nations tournament took place in Holland over the weekend. The countries of England, France, Germany, Denmark, Holland and Sweden and the respective players participated at the team event and the singles.

For the team event the girls finished 5th. The team consisted of Maria, Lois Peake, Lucy Zhu and Olivia Churchill.

One win over Denmark with 6-4 (Maria contributing two single wins against Nicoline Koefoed 1-11 4-11 4-11 and Sofie Egeholt  8-11 7-11 5-11 and a doubles win with Lois 9-11 5-11 8-11)


Lost to France 6-4 (Maria contributing a singles win over Eloïse Saint Dizier 11-3 9-11 6-11 9-11 and a doubles win partnering Lois 11-5 7-11 10-12 11-4 10-12)

Lost to Germany and Sweden 9-1 (Maria won one singles games against the Swedish girl Kristina Kallberg 8-11 6-11 13-11 11-9 7-11)


Drew with Netherlands 5-5 (Maria won against Amber Van De Velde 11-8 10-12 6-11 7-11 and won the doubles 10-12 11-9 6-11 3-11)


Therefore in 15 games including singles and doubles Maria won 8 times. 
Considering just the singles she won 5 out of 10.




For the singles, Maria was in group A with Melisssa Bours (Holland) , Leill Mostafavi (France), Emilie Jaffeux (France),Selja Fazlic (Germany),Malin Nilsson (Sweden) and Sofie Egeholt (Demnark).

Lost to Melissa 11-13 6-11 11-5 7-11

Lost to Leill 11-6 10-12 4-11 16-18

Lost to Emilie (and overall winner of the competition at the end) 11-8 14-12 11-13 8-11 11-8

Won against Selja 11-7 11-9 12-10

Won against Malin 11-8 11-2 11-7

Won against Sofie 11-3 12-10 11-9

to finish joint 3rd.

Cadet Masters Video

Watch the game against Tin Tin Ho for the Cadet Masters (2012), all 5 sets.

set 1

set 2

set 3

set 4

set 5

European Championships

Maria has been selected for the prestigious tournament in July in Austria to represent England as a Cadet with Tin Tin Ho and Lois Peake

Polish open day two

Delayed news. The team reached the semifinal where they lost to a strong German team. For the individual events Maria went through the group stage but lost next round.
For more details check ETTA report

Polish open day one

The England team of tin tin and Maria went through the group stage as group winners beating Austria A, Poland B and a mixed team of chech and new Zealand.
Then they went through to the next round after a 3-0 win against Poland C