Karman Kaur Thandi (born 16 June 1998) is an Indian professional

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

Tennis career

She started playing tennis at the age of eight. Thandi is the sixth Indian female tennis player to enter the top 200 of the WTA rankings, after the likes of Nirupama Sanjeev,

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, Sunitha Rao, and

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. 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. Additionally, she also made it to the semifinals in two other tournaments in China. Since 2017 she has represented

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, with a career win–loss record of 3–7 in singles and of 2–1 in doubles. Karman is supported by the RoundGlass Tennis Academy, Chandigarh and currently trains at the academy under coach Aditya Sachdeva. Thandi participated in the

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, with

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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. Thandi became the first Indian player to win a WTA Tour main-draw match (defeating

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at the 2018 Jiangxi International Open) since Sania Mirza's victory over Kristina Barrois at the 2012 Indian Wells Open.

Performance timelines

*Sourced from WTA ''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.''

WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 1 (title)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 13 (4 titles, 9 runner–ups)

Doubles: 9 (4 titles, 5 runner–ups)

Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup participation

Singles (0–2)

Doubles (1–0)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Thandi, Karman Kaur 1998 births Living people Sportswomen from Delhi Racket sportspeople from Delhi Indian female tennis players Tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games Tennis players at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games tennis players for India