Junior Nationals Preview

This coming Saturday the junior nationals are taking place at Hatfield.
Maria is participating in three events: singles, doubles and mixed doubles.
For the singles she is seed 5 and at the group stages she will face Daniela Gray, Eleanor Davidson, Eda Aydib and Rebekkah Lycett.
For the doubles Maria and Tin Tin Ho have been seeded number one and in the first round they face Eda Aydin and Sophie Tofalides.
In mixed doubles Maria and her partner Liam McTiernan face Danny Lawrence and Emily Bolton.

Maria too hot to handle

Read here http://www.tabletennis365.com/wbl/news/1636 the interview Maria gave to the women's British league website.

Women's British League Sunday

The team continued their excellent run with two further wins against Sportingbet Guernsey and Thorntons TT 5-1 and 6-0 respectively.

Maria's results against Guernsey were:

A win against Kay Chivers 11-8 11-7 11-7 and a win against Dawn Morgan. 11-5 10-12 11-7 11-8.

Maria's results against Thornton were:

A win against Lisa Radford 11-5 11-8 9-11 11-3 and a win against Liz May 11-5 11-8 11-7.

The team was awarded the Team of the weekend honour.

Women's British League - Saturday

Maria was asked to join the Ormesby team for her debut at the women's British league premier division. The team consists of Chloe Whyte, Karen Shepherd and Maria.

The day finished with the team beating 6-0 Burton Uxbridge, 4-2 Halton Ttc1 and with the same score Draycott and Long Eaton.

Maria has a 100% record, translated into 6 wins out of 6. Her scores were as follows:

Against Burton Uxbridge
Won against Helen Turner 3-0 (11-5 11-4 11-5)
Won against Sophie Neil 3-1 (9-11 14-12 11-2 11-5)

Against Halton TTC1
Won against Fiona Dennet 3-0 (11-4 11-7 11-2)
Won against Angharad Phillips 3-0 (11-7 11-8 12-10)

Against Draycott and Long Eaton
Won against Sarra Wang 3-2 (11-3 9-11 11-8 8-11 12-10)
Won against Jessica Dawson 3-0 (11-4 11-8 11-7)

Hungarian Open: Singles Day 2

Following yesterday's win Maria this morning beat Chloe Thomas from Wales 3-0 (11-4, 11-8, 11-6). The next and final qualifying game is later today (1:25 UK time) against the Dutch girl. She lost 11-5 11-5 11-9 to the Dutch girl but her second position n the group gave her a spot at the main draw.

At the main draw Maria lost to Linda Bergstrom from Sweden 4-0 (5-11, 5-11, 8-11, 8-11).

Maria was the 14th youngest player in her first european tournament for Junior girls and hopefully the experience will benefit her for the forthcoming ones.

Hungarian Open Singles

Today Maria has started competing for the Hungarian Open Singles. For her qualifying group (group 18) Maria ranked 77th (out of 93) she has to face Ingrida Preidziute (Lithuania, ranked 38th ), Chloe Thomas (Walses, ranked 76th) and Alice Barendrest (Netherlands, ranked 34th ). For the first game she defeated Ingrida 3-0 (11-7 11-8 11-7) with the next two games scheduled for tomorrow.

Hungary Junior Updates

Maria arrived safely in Hungary to represent England at the Junior Level. Unfortunately she is the only girl since Tessa and Jessica dropped out because of injuries. Fortunately, Maria will be able to take part at the team event as a member of a mixed team from England and Canada. The games start today and the team has to face Chinese Taipei A and Slovakia A. A difficult draw!
Results will start appearing here