Karman Thandi

Karman Thandi
Thandi at the 2021 ITF Poitiers
Full nameKarman Kaur Thandi
Country (sports) India
ResidenceNew Delhi, India
Born (1998-06-16) 16 June 1998 (age 26)
New Delhi
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
PlaysRight (two-handed backhand)
Prize moneyUS$ 186,046
Singles
Career record200–129
Career titles4 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 196 (20 August 2018)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQ1 (2019, 2021)
US OpenQ1 (2023)
Doubles
Career record74–60
Career titles1 WTA Challenger, 4 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 180 (14 January 2019)
Team competitions
Fed Cup5–8
Last updated on: 10 September 2024.

Karman Kaur Thandi (born 16 June 1998) is an Indian professional tennis player.[2] She has been a previous Indian number one in singles.

Thandi has career-high WTA rankings of 196 in singles, as of 20 August 2018, and No. 180 in doubles, as of 14 January 2019.[3]

In 2023, Karman Kaur Thandi married Gurjant Singh, an Indian national hockey player.[4]

Tennis career

She started playing tennis at the age of eight.[5]

Thandi is the sixth Indian female tennis player to enter the top 200 of the WTA rankings, after the likes of Nirupama Sanjeev, Sania Mirza, Shikha Uberoi, Sunitha Rao, and Ankita Raina.[6]

Thandi has won four singles titles and four doubles titles on the ITF Circuit- the maiden singles title in $25k Hong Kong tournament on 23 June 2018, and the doubles titles in 2017 in Heraklion, and two in 2015 in Gulbarga. On the ITF Junior Circuit, she achieved a career-high ranking of 32 in January 2016.[7] Additionally, she also made it to the semifinals in two other tournaments in China.[8]

Since 2017 she has represented India in Fed Cup, with a career win–loss record of 3–7 in singles and of 2–1 in doubles.[9]

Karman is supported by the RoundGlass Tennis Academy, Chandigarh[10] and currently trains at the academy under coach Aditya Sachdeva.[11]

Thandi participated in the 2018 Asian Games, with Divij Sharan in mixed-doubles event. They defeated Filipino pairing of Marian Capadocia and Alberto Lim jr in their first match in the Games. But the pair was ousted in third round.[12]

Thandi became the first Indian player to win a WTA Tour main-draw match (defeating Lu Jiajing at the 2018 Jiangxi International Open) since Sania Mirza's victory over Kristina Barrois at the 2012 Indian Wells Open.

Performance timelines

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
  • Sourced from WTA[13]

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Singles

Current through the 2022 Chennai Open.

Tournament 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 SR W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A Q1 A Q1 A 0 / 0 0–0
French Open A A A A A 0 / 0 0–0
Wimbledon A A NH A A 0 / 0 0–0
US Open A A A A A 0 / 0 0–0
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0 / 0 0–0
WTA 1000
Miami Open A Q1 NH A A 0–0 0–0
Career statistics
Tournaments 2 0 0 0 1 Career total: 3
Overall win-loss 1–2 0–0 0–0 0–1 1–1 0 / 3 2–4
Year-end ranking 591 621 503 268 $110,750

WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 1 (title)

Result    Date    Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win Nov 2018 Taipei Open, Taiwan Hard India Ankita Raina Russia Olga Doroshina
Russia Natela Dzalamidze 		6–3, 5–7, [12–12] ret.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 13 (4 titles, 9 runner–ups)

Legend
$60,000 tournaments (2–1)
$25,000 tournaments (2–6)
$10,000 tournaments (0–2)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Dec 2015 ITF Indore, India 10,000 Hard Ukraine Anastasiya Vasylyeva 5–7, 6–2, 2–6
Loss 0–2 Oct 2016 ITF Hua Hin, Thailand 10,000 Hard China Guo Hanyu 3–6, 3–6
Loss 0–3 Jul 2017 ITF Naiman, China 25,000 Hard China Lu Jingjing 2–6, 1–6
Loss 0–4 Nov 2017 Pune Championships, India 25,000 Hard Romania Jaqueline Cristian 3–6, 6–1, 0–6
Win 1–4 Jun 2018 ITF Hong Kong 25,000 Hard China Lu Jiajing 6–1, 6–2
Loss 1–5 Oct 2018 ITF Nanning, China 25,000 Hard China Han Xinyun 4–6, 6–2, 4–6
Loss 1–6 Dec 2018 Pune Championships, India 25,000 Hard Slovenia Tamara Zidanšek 3–6, 4–6
Loss 1–7 Nov 2019 ITF Bhopal, India 25,000 Hard Japan Chihiro Muramatsu 1–6, 1–3 ret.
Loss 1–8 Nov 2021 ITF Ortisei, Italy 25,000 Hard (i) Switzerland Susan Bandecchi 4–6, 4–6
Win 2–8 Jun 2022 ITF Gurugram, India 25,000 Hard Belgium Sofia Costoulas 6–4, 2–6, 6–1
Win 3–8 Oct 2022 Challenger de Saguenay, Canada 60,000 Hard (i) Canada Katherine Sebov 3–6, 6–4, 6–3
Loss 3–9 Jun 2023 ITF Sumter, United States 60,000 Hard Ukraine Yuliia Starodubtseva 7–6(5), 5–7, 4–6
Win 4–9 Jul 2023 Evansville Classic, United States 60,000 Hard Ukraine Yuliia Starodubtseva 7–5, 4–6, 6–1

Doubles: 9 (4 titles, 5 runner–ups)

Legend
$60,000 tournaments (0–1)
$25,000 tournaments (1–2)
$10/15,000 tournaments (3–2)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 May 2015 ITF Nashik, India 10,000 Clay India Riya Bhatia India Sowjanya Bavisetti
India Rishika Sunkara 		6–7(5), 2–6
Win 1–1 Nov 2015 ITF Gulbarga, India 10,000 Hard India Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal India Prerna Bhambri
India Kanika Vaidya 		1–6, 6–3, [10–7]
Win 2–1 Nov 2015 ITF Gulbarga, India 10,000 Hard India Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal India Nidhi Chilumula
India Eetee Maheta 		6–4, 6–7(5), [10–7]
Loss 2–2 Dec 2015 ITF Indore, India 10,000 Hard India Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal Ukraine Veronika Kapshay
Ukraine Anastasiya Vasylyeva 		1–6, 3–6
Win 3–2 Mar 2017 ITF Heraklion, Greece 15,000 Clay Austria Mira Antonitsch Ukraine Olga Ianchuk
Greece Despina Papamichail 		6–0, 6–3
Loss 3–3 Sep 2017 ITF Lubbock, United States 25,000 Hard Montenegro Ana Veselinović United States Victoria Duval
Russia Alisa Kleybanova 		6–2, 4–6, [8–10]
Loss 3–4 Oct 2017 ITF Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France 25,000 Hard (i) United Kingdom Samantha Murray France Manon Arcangioli
France Shérazad Reix 		1–3 ret.
Win 4–4 Nov 2018 Pune Championships, India 25,000 Hard India Ankita Raina Bulgaria Aleksandrina Naydenova
Slovenia Tamara Zidanšek 		6–2, 6–7(5), [11–9]
Loss 4–5 Jul 2023 ITF Saskatoon, Canada 60,000 Hard Canada Stacey Fung United States Abigail Rencheli
United States Alana Smith 		6–4, 4–6, [7–10]

Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup participation

Singles (0–2)

Edition Stage Date Location Against Surface Opponent W/L Score
2019 Z1 R/R 7 Feb 2019 Astana (KAZ) Thailand Thailand Hard (i) Nudnida Luangnam L 2–6, 6–3, 3–6
8 Feb 2019 Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Zarina Diyas L 3–6, 2–6

Doubles (1–0)

Edition Stage Date Location Against Surface Partner Opponents W/L Score
2019 Z1 R/R 7 Feb 2019 Astana (KAZ) Thailand Thailand Hard (i) Ankita Raina Nudnida Luangnam
Peangtarn Plipuech 		W 6–4, 6–7(6–8), 7–5

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