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

Wednesday, 18 July 2018

Commonwealth Games: Looking Back

Gold Coast 2018 was Maria's first Commonwealth Games. She competed in the table tennis event at Oxenford Studios and won bronze in the women's team.

In the words of BBC "You'd want her on your team! " Watch Maria's incredible enthusiasm in the following link.

Ping Pong Passion

Read Maria's story at the Commonwealth Games site as she reveals her motivation behind table tennis success.

The local press release is here as well.

Monday, 5 March 2018

All sort of medals at the Nationals

During the four days of nationals Maria came home with a gold medal for the women's doubles (with Kelly Sibley), a silver medal for the Under 21s and a bronze for women's singles and mixed doubles (with Tom Jarvis). Another great collection of medals demonstrating how she deserved her Commonwealth collection and boosting Maria for the forthcoming games.

Thursday, 1 March 2018

World Cup Results

The Women's team lost to Hong Kong 3-1 and to Singapore 3-0 at the World Cup games.
Reports of the games can be found here.
Maria says to local paper Reading Chronicle that England have learned from Team World Cup.

Tuesday, 27 February 2018

Womens Team Beats Norway

England Leopards women got their European Championships campaign off to a winning start today at the Copper Box Arena. The women needed four matches to see off Norway 3-1 in the Stage 1 of the tournament.
Read all about it!

Wednesday, 7 February 2018

Maria makes the Commonwealth squad

It was with great pride to hear of Maria's selection for the Commonwealth Games in April at Gold Coast of Australia. Maria has been selected together with Kelly Sibley, Tin Tin Ho and Denise Payet. This is Maria's first selection and she is looking forward to give her best for the Leopards.

This is the official Table Tennis England Announcement and read Maria's reaction as reported by the local paper Reading Chronicle.

Monday, 5 February 2018

England Leopards new kit for Commonwealth

Read the announcement here.

Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Maria to represent England at the World Cup

Maria has been selected for the ITTF Team World Cup at the Copper Box Arena which is from February 22-25, 2018.
England has been drawn against Hong Kong and Singapore.

The official Table Tennis England Announcement and as reported by the local paper Reading Chronicle.