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


Sunday, 13 May 2012

Cadet masters Champion!!!

Nicky Jarvis with Maria, Tin Tin and Lois
The cadet masters competition took place over the weekend at Cippenham. 14 girls were invited and they had to face each other, seven games on Saturday and six games on Sunday. Maria won all her 13 games beating the number one sees Tin Tin Ho at the last game 3-2. For the semifinal she also beat Lois Peake with the same score.

Full list of results
3-2 vs Tin-Tin Ho
3-2 vs Lois Peak
3-0 vs Emily Bolton
3-0 vs Lucy Zhu
3-0 vs Letitia McMullan
3-0 vs Ella Patel
3-0 vs Jazmin Johns
3-0 vs Kayleigh Forster
3-1 vs Nicole Bird
3-0 vs Amy Humphreys
3-1 vs Olivia Churchill
3-0 vs Jane Li
3-0 vs Hannah Noutch

Nicky Jarvis presents the medal

Thursday, 10 May 2012

Sainsburys School Games: Gallery of Photos

The Girls Team with Liz May

Supporting

Doubles with Vicky

Action shot

Serving

The South West Team

Tuesday, 8 May 2012

Gold medal for south west

Maria together with Megan and chrissie and vicky beat the midlands 4-3 to win the gold medal for the sainsburys uk school games.

Results

England-South West v England-South East 4-2

V Smith v L Peake 12-14,11-9,11-5,11-7
C Slot v T Ho 4-11,3-11,6-11
M Tsaptsinos v H Taylor 10-12,11-7,11-3,11-9
V Smith/M Tsaptsinos v T Ho/L Peake 11-5,11-8,6-11,8-11,11-9
V Smith v T Ho 11-8,13-15,11-7,6-11,5-11
M Tsaptsinos v L Peake 11-6,11-6,11-7



England-South West v England-Midlands 4-3

V Smith v I Ashley 8-11,7-11,11-2,14-12,11-9
C Slot v E Bates 2-11,3-11,6-11
M Tsaptsinos v O Churchill 11-7,11-5,11-7
V Smith/M Tsaptsinos v I Ashley/E Bates 11-9,3-11,9-11,4-11
V Smith v E Bates 11-8,11-6,9-11,7-11,9-11
M Tsaptsinos v I Ashley 9-11,11-6,14-12,11-6
C Slot v O Churchill 4-11,11-5,10-12,11-9,11-5


Monday, 7 May 2012

Sainsbury's school games 2012 Day One

First day at the Excel Exhibition Centre and Maria is part of the England South West team with Vicky Smith, Chrissie Slot and Megan Knowles.
The team was in group S and they faced England North West, Wales and Scotland.
At the end they finished second following 7-0 wins against England North West and Scotland and a narrow loss by 4-3 to Wales.

Maria's Individual Results
Against North West
J Gibson v Maria 3-11,5-11,5-11
J Gibson/E Bolton v M Tsaptsinos/V Smith 11-6,5-11,8-11,8-11
D Eden v Maria 5-11,3-11,4-11

Against Wales

Maria v C Carey 7-11,9-11,10-12
M Tsaptsinos/V Smith v C Carey/N Hall 8-11,9-11,11-7,12-14
Maria v N Hall 11-7,11-4,6-11,8-11,11-7

Against Scotland
L Elliott v Maria 4-11,6-11,11-5,10-12
J Hart/L Stirling v V Smith/M Tsaptsinos 11-8,7-11,11-13,9-11
J Hart v Maria 7-11,7-11,5-11

Friday, 4 May 2012

At the BBC Radio Berkshire

Today Maria spoke briefly about how she started the game, why she likes table tennis and how she looks forward to the school games next week that acts as a test event for the Olympics

Thursday, 3 May 2012

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

The Abbey School awards Maria

Maria, in recognition of her tremendous achievements in the last year, was awarded by her school, the Abbey, Sportsperson of the Year.