Maria Tsaptsinos

Maria Tsaptsinos (born 21 July 1997) is an English table tennis player.[2] She competed for England in the Women's Team event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games where she won a bronze medal alongside teammates Tin-Tin Ho and Kelly Sibley.[3] Tsaptsinos and Ho also competed in the Women's Doubles, reaching the quarter-finals.

Maria Tsaptsinos
NationalityBritish
Born (1997-07-21) 21 July 1997
Reading, England
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight60 kg (130 lb; 9.4 st)
Table tennis career
Playing styleShakehand, attacking
Highest ranking149 (May 2019)
Current ranking196 [1]
Medal record
Representing  England
Women's table tennis
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place2018 Gold CoastTeam

At English national level, Tsaptsinos has won the senior title for women's doubles five times in a row - from 2015 to 2017 with Tin-Tin Ho, in 2018 with Kelly Sibley and in 2019 again with Ho. She also twice won the singles title for Under 21s, in 2014 and 2016.[4] In 2019, she won the women's singles title for the first time.[5]

Tsaptsinos was supported while in education by Sport England's Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS). In July 2018 she was named as the winner of the TASS Star of the Year award for outstanding achievement in sport and/or study.[6]

See also

References
  1. "ITTF - World Ranking". Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  2. "Gold Coast 2018 profile". Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  3. "Commonwealth Games: England win women's team table tennis bronze". www.bbc.co.uk/sport.
  4. "Archive of key results". Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  5. "Pitchford and Tsaptsinos are the champions". Table Tennis England. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  6. "Top student-athletes celebrated at 2018 TASS Stars Awards". Retrieved 30 July 2018.


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