Karman breaks into top-200

New Delhi, July 30 

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Karman Kaur Thandi today became only the sixth Indian woman tennis player to crack the top-200 rankings in singles as she jumped 32 places to reach a career-best 200 in the WTA chart.

The 20-year-old Delhi girl has been in good form in the past few weeks, winning her maiden ITF singles title in Hong Kong and making it to the semis in two other events  in China.

In April, the country’s top singles player Ankita had broken into the top-200 and is now ranked 195. Before these two girls, Sania Mirza, Nirupama Vaidyanathan, Shikha Uberoi and Sunitha Rao had made it to top-200.

In the men’s singles, Yuki Bhambri was unchanged at 86 while Ramkumar Ramanathan climbed four places to a career-best 111.

In the doubles, Rohan Bopanna (27), Divij Sharan (38), Leander Paes (80) and Purav Raja (83) were unchanged. Jeeevan Nedunchezhiyan dropped two rungs to 89 while N Sriram Balaji (96) and Vishnu Vardhan (98) maintained their top-100 ranking. — PTI