Karman Thandi
Karman Kaur Thandi is an Indian tennis player.
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.
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 ranking, after the likes of Nirupama Sanjeev, Sania Mirza, Shikha Uberoi, Sunitha Rao, and Ankita Raina.
Thandi has won four doubles titles and one singles title on the ITF Women's Circuit- the maiden singles title in $25,000 Hong Kong tournament on 23 June 2018, and the doubles titles in 2017 in Heraklion, and two in 2015 in Gulbarga. On the junior tour, Thandi had a career-high ranking of No. 32, achieved in January 2016. Additionally, she also made it to the semi-finals in two other tournaments in China.
Since 2017 she has represented India in the Fed Cup, where she has a singles win-loss record of 3–6, and a doubles record of 2–1
She is backed by the Virat Kohli Foundation and by Mahesh Bhupathi.
Thandi is participated in the 2018 Asian Games, with Divij Sharan in mixed doubles event. She defeated Filipino pairing of Marian Jane 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 main draw match since Sania Mirza's victory over Kristina Barrois in the 2012 BNP Paribas Open.
Performance timelines
- Sourced from WTA
Singles
WTA 125K series finals
Doubles: 1 (1 title)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 8 (1 title, 7 runner–ups)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | ITF Indore, India | 10,000 | Hard |  Anastasiya Vasylyeva | 5–7, 6–2, 2–6 | |
| Loss | 0–2 | ITF Hua Hin, Thailand | 10,000 | Hard |  Guo Hanyu | 3–6, 3–6 | |
| Loss | 0–3 | ITF Naiman, China | 25,000 | Hard | Lu Jingjing | 2–6, 1–6 | |
| Loss | 0–4 | ITF Pune, India | 25,000 | Hard |  Jaqueline Cristian | 3–6, 6–1, 0–6 | |
| Win | 1–4 | ITF Hong Kong | 25,000 | Hard | Lu Jiajing | 6–1, 6–2 | |
| Loss | 1–5 | ITF Nanning, China | 25,000 | Hard | Han Xinyun | 4–6, 6–2, 4–6 | |
| Loss | 1–6 | ITF Pune, India | 25,000 | Hard |  Tamara Zidansek | 3–6, 4–6 | |
| Loss | 1–7 | ITF Bhopal, India | 25,000 | Hard |  Chihiro Muramatsu | 1–6, 1–3 retd. |
Doubles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner–ups)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | May 2015 | ITF Nashik, India | 10,000 | Clay |  Riya Bhatia | Sowjanya Bavisetti Rishika Sunkara | 6–7, 2–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | Nov 2015 | ITF Gulbarga, India | 10,000 | Hard | Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal | Prerna Bhambri Kanika Vaidya | 1–6, 6–3, |
| Win | 2–1 | Nov 2015 | ITF Gulbarga, India | 10,000 | Hard | Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal | Nidhi Chilumula Eetee Maheta | 6–4, 6–7, |
| Loss | 2–2 | Dec 2015 | ITF Indore, India | 10,000 | Hard | Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal | Veronika Kapshay Anastasiya Vasylyeva | 1–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 3–2 | Mar 2017 | ITF Heraklion, Greece | 15,000 | Clay |  Mira Antonitsch | Olga Ianchuk  Despina Papamichail | 6–0, 6–3 |
| Loss | 3–3 | Sep 2017 | ITF Lubbock, United States | 25,000 | Hard |  Ana Veselinović |  Victoria Duval  Alisa Kleybanova | 6–2, 4–6, |
| Loss | 3–4 | Oct 2017 | ITF Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France | 25,000 | Hard |  Samantha Murray |  Manon Arcangioli Shérazad Reix | 1–3 ret. |
| Win | 4–4 | Nov 2018 | ITF Pune, India | 25,000 | Hard | Ankita Raina |  Aleksandrina Naydenova Tamara Zidansek | 6–2, 6–7, |