$250K WTA Jiangxi International Tournament, Nanchang

[PKBasu]

What a fantastic landmark: for the first time ever, we have 2 Indians each playing in the main draw of both a WTA and ATP tour event in the same week!

Karman’s serve statistics are astoundingly impressive. Waiting for her to play a full season on grass next year!!

[sameerph]

Yes,great to see 2 Indian players in both ATP and WTA main tour events this week.

Ankita plays her first round match today evening. Tough match against a top 100 local player.

[jayakris]

Karman’s serve statistics are astoundingly impressive.

Isn't that why we all stayed with her as well-wishing supporters despite her progress being a bit slower than initially thought? So glad to see her getting pretty steady and consistent these days.

[PKBasu]

Ankita has lost the first set 2-6

[IndiaSports]

Ankita got thrashed 6-2, 6-1. What a wasted opportunity, of all the players in this weak draw, she had to draw the 2nd seed and being in the main draw means she gets 0 points.
Hope Karman can use her opportunity better.

[Omkara]

Ankita got thrashed 6-2, 6-1. What a wasted opportunity, of all the players in this weak draw, she had to draw the 2nd seed and being in the main draw means she gets 0 points.
Hope Karman can use her opportunity better.

Reflects that the game has improved but only to the level of 150-200. Still there will be many more opportunities. If the fighter in her keeps trying, someday we will may see scores reverse.

[PKBasu]

Karman leading 5-3, and serving for the first set.

Karman saves a break point (the sixth one she’s saved in the set) and wins it 6-3.

Karman won 41 points, to 33 for her opponent in that set.

[Saniapower]

unable to handle pressure of a wta event.

[Saniapower]

Why the Idiot is making so many DOUBLE FAULTS ONLY TODAY

[bujilover]

Karman wins with a 6-3 3-6 7-5 score. 1st WTA match win and 30 points from today will take her to a CH top-200 ranking I hope she serves well against her potential R2 opponent Saisai Zheng.

[meyyis]

[R1] (Q) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,216) d. Jia-Jing Lu (CHN,175) : 6-3, 3-6, 7-5

The match was error strewn with breaks of serve the order of the day, however KKT seemed to have prevailed at the end in three sets, in this tough R1 match. 5 breaks of serves traded in the decider and 3 breaks of serve in the second set.

[meyyis]

With her first round win here today, KKT moves up to 198 (a new CH) in Live Rankings.

Her potential next round opponent is SaiSai Zheng from China who is currently ranked 110 with a CH of 60.

[IndiaSports]

Wow, she finally managed to pull through. Her serve dint work today, just 49% first serve in 5 aces to 11 double fault. But she still won 74% of the first serve points, which is good on a bad day like this. She was down 2-4 in the third set but held her nerves and delivered.
Congratz to KKT on her wta main draw win

Most likely will face 6th seed Saisai Zheng in 2nd round.

[jayakris]

Yeah, Karman! Great news to wake up to.

[jaydeep]

Good to see Karman managed to win ... Next, she is facing former top-60 player Saisai Zheng.

Prarthana with her American partner Cako started with straight sets win over local wild-card pair.

[R2] (Q) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,216) vs (6) Saisai Zheng (CHN,112)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Jacqueline Cako (USA)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) bt (WC) Xuliu Sun (CHN)/ Wushuang Zheng (CHN) 63 75