Maria Tsaptsinos (born 21 July 1997) is an English

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player. She competed for England in the Women's Team event at the

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where she won a bronze medal alongside teammates

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and Kelly Sibley. Tsaptsinos and Ho also competed in the Women's Doubles, reaching the quarter-finals. 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. In 2019, she won the women's singles title for the first time. Tsaptsinos was supported while in education by

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(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.

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* 1997 births Living people English female table tennis players Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Commonwealth Games medallists in table tennis Table tennis players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Table tennis players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games {{UK-tabletennis-bio-stub

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