Karman Thandi


Karman Kaur Thandi is an Indian professional tennis player. She is a former Indian number one in singles.
Thandi's career-high WTA rankings in singles was No. 196, as of 20 August 2018, and No. 180 in doubles, as of 14 January 2019.

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 Nirupama Sanjeev, Sania Mirza, Shikha Uberoi, Sunitha Rao and Ankita Raina.
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 India [Fed Cup team|India] in Fed Cup, with a career win–loss record of 3–7 in singles and of 2–1 in doubles.
Thandi won her first WTA 125 doubles title at the 2018 [OEC Taipei WTA Challenger – Doubles|2018 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger]. Partnering Ankita Raina, they defeated Olga Doroshina and Natela Dzalamidze, when their opponents retired in the deciding champions tiebreak because of a hamstring injury suffered by Dzalamidze.
She 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 lost in third round.

Personal life

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

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 – Singles|2022 Chennai Open].''

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 13 (4 titles, 9 runner–ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1ITF Indore, India10,000Harddts|Oct 2016

Doubles: 9 (4 titles, 5 runner–ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1May 2015ITF Nashik, India10,000Clay