Karman Kaur Thandi is now India's number one tennis player, after winning the W60 ITF event in Saguenay, Canada on Sunday. He replaced Ankita Raina. The win was the biggest win of Karman's career to date, and it boosted her 91st place in the latest Women's Tennis Rankings (WTA) to 217th place, according to Olympics.com. Olympian Ankita is currently ranked 297th after losing 13 places.

Rutuja Bhosale, who dropped nine places to 411, Riya Bhatia, at world number 490, who fell five places and Sahaja Yamalapalli, who is ranked 20th at world number 508, are the top five in the women's game. single in India.

Karman achieved his career-best 196 in 2018. The win in Saguenay was Karman's third team title and his second of the year. He won the W25 tournament in June in Gurugram. Karman won his first men's singles title in Hong Kong in 2018.

In the final against Canada's Katherine Sebov, Karman Kaur bounced back from her demolition and won the title 3-6, 6-4, 6-3. Earlier in the tournament, Karman caused an upset by defeating second seed Robin Anderson (USA) in the first round and Ena Shibahara of Japan, the semi-finals of Roland-Garros 2022 paired the two winners in the second round.

2022 has been a wonderful year for the Indian, who was selected outside the 400 in February. Last month, Karman stunned France's Chloe Paquet, the world number 109, in the first round of the 2022 WTA Chennai Open and won praise for her strong performance against Wimbledon-bound Eugenie Bouchard in the second round.