Karman kaur thandi qualifies for WTA event in guangzhou

Karman Kaur Thandi beat fifth seed Danka Kovinic of Montenegro 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 in the second and final qualifying round of the $250,000 WTA tennis tournament in Guangzhou, China, on Monday.

With that win over the 23-year-old Danka, who was ranked a career-best 46 two years ago, the 20-year-old Karman, ranked 209, set up a first round against wild card entrant, Svetlana Kuznetsova, the former world No.2, US Open and French Open champion, who had twice won the Australian Open women’s doubles.

The main draw will also feature Prarthana Thombare in doubles, in partnershipw ith Guo Hanyu of China.

In the ITF grade-5 junior tournament in Togo, Vansh Bhagtani won the doubles title with Mai Tomac of Slovenia.

The results:

$250,000 WTA, Guangzhou, China
Qualifying singles (second and final round): Karman Kaur Thandi bt Danka Kovinic (Mne) 6-3, 5-7, 6-3; First round: Karman Kaur Thandi bt Jiaqi Kang (Chn) 6-2, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF women, Anning, China
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Dan Ni Wang (Chn) & Sowjanya Bavisetti bt Tijana Nikolic (Srb) & Arina Solomatina (Rus) 6-3, 6-2.

Qualifying singles (second round): Min Liu (Chn) bt Ashmitha Easwaramurthi 6-7(5), 6-2, 6-4.

$25,000 ITF women, Lubbock, US
Qualifying singles (first round): Michaela Gordon (US) bt Mahak Jain 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF women, Cairo, Egypt
Qualifying singles (second round): Anna Morgina (Rus) bt Sravya Shivani Chilakalapudi 6-0, 6-0; Hala Fouad (Egy) bt Saumya Vig 6-2, 7-5.
First round: Saumya Vig bt Roula Elmalah (Egy) 6-0, 6-1.

$15,000 ITF women, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
Qualifying singles (first round): Iuliia Nikitina (Rus) bt Shilpi Swarupa Das 6-0, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF women, Monastir, Tunisia
Qualifying singles (second and final round): Sathwika Sama bt Diana Chehoudi (Ned) 7-5, 5-7, 6-3.

$15,000 ITF women, Antalya, Turkey
Qualifying singles (second and final round): Daniela Glanzer (Aut) bt Sonashe Bhatnagar 6-4, 6-2.

$25,000 ITF men, Madrid, Spain
Qualifying singles (second round): Jaime Fermosell (Esp) bt Chinmaya Dev Chauhan 6-1, 6-0; John Echeverria (Esp) bt Shubham Gajraj 6-1, 6-0.

First round: Nam Hoang Ly (Vie) bt Venkata Gnana Bhaskar Paramatmuni 6-1, 6-1; Chinmaya Dev Chauhan bt Pol Sanchez Vinas (Esp) 1-6, 6-4, 6-2; Israel Boskila (Isr) bt Karan Lalchandani 2-6, 7-5, 7-6(5); Shubham Gajrat bt Aubin Duchier (Fra) 6-0, 6-2; John Echeverria (Esp) bt Digvijay Pratap Singh 7-5, 6-3.

$15,000 ITF men, Cairo, Egypt
Qualifying singles (third and final round): Vasisht Cheruku bt Francesco Trepla (Ita) 7-6(5), 6-3; Shimaro Mochizuki (Jpn) bt PC Vignesh 7-5, 6-1.

Second round; Lorenzo Vatteroni (Ita) bt Ansu Bhuyan 7-6(8), 6-1; Vasisht Cheruku bt Hassan Bassel (Egy) 6-1, 2-6, 6-1; Nicolo Inserra (Ita) bt Tarun Anirudh Chilakalapudi 6-4, 1-6, 6-3; Daiki Yoshimura (Jpn) bt Arpit Sharma 6-4, 6-0; Adrian Exposito (Esp) bt Vidit Vaghela 6-1, 6-1; PC Vignesh bt Matteo Meneghetti (Ita) 6-2, 6-1.

First round: Ansu Bhuyan bt Akim Zarichanskyy (Ukr) 6-2, 6-1; Nim Gabriel Dica (Rou) bt Arjun Mahadevan 6-1, 6-1; Arpit Sharma bt Nicola Caron (Ita) 6-1, 6-0; Vidit Vaghela bt Aly Shokeir (Egy) 6-3, 6-3.

$15,000 ITF men, Plaisir, France
Qualifying singles (first round): Shiva Swaroop bt Andrei Vlad Scarlat (Rou) 6-1, 6-0.

$15,000 ITF men, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
Qualifying singles (first round): Shonigmatjon Shofayziyev (Uzb) bt Krishna Teja Ankam 2-6, 6-0, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF men, Antalya, Turkey
Qualifying singles (second round): Philip Bachmaier (Aut) bt Rahul Shankar 6-0, 6-1.
First round: Carlo Alberto Fossati (Ita) bt Tathagat Charntimath 6-0, 6-0; Rahul Shankar bt Florian Griesmeyer (Ger) 6-2, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF men, Laguna Niguel, US
Qualifying singles (second round): Filip Kraljevic (Cro) bt Rishabh Sharda 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.
First round: Rishabh Sharda bt Gustavo Teisen Pereira (Bra) 6-0, 4-6, 6-4.

ITF grade-5 juniors, Lome, Togo
Boys (quarterfinals): Abdoulaziz Bationo (CIV) bt Aaryan Zaveri 6-2, 6-3; Arnaud Sewanou (Be) bt Aman Patel 6-3, 7-5.

Doubles (final): Mai Tomac (Slo) & Vansh Bhagtani bt Sylvestre Monnou & Arnaud Sewanou (Ben) 6-4, 7-6(5); Semifinals: Mai Tomac & Vansh Bhagtani bt Aman Patel & Aaryan Zaveri 7-5, 6-4.

Girls (semifinals): Divine Dasam Nweke (Den) bt Gauri Bhagia 7-6(5), 6-1; Quarterfinals: Anna Lorie Lemongo Toumbou (Cmr) bt Bhakti Parwani 6-3, 6-2; Divine Dasam Nweke (Den) bt Smriti Bhasin 6-1, 6-2; Gauri Bhagia bt Vania Dotse (Tog) 6-1, 6-1.

Doubles (semifinals): Carmine Becoude (Ben) & Divine Dasam Nweke (Den) bt Gauri Bhagia & Bhakti Parwani 6-2, 6-0; Anna Lorie Lemongo Toumbou (Cmr) & Barakat Oyinlomo Quadre (Ngr) bt Yasmin Ezzat (Egy) & Smriti Bhasin 6-3, 6-3.