Thai Teen Kamalvarn Wins Tianjin W15 Doubles Title
Thai tennis player Kamalvarn Yodpetch, 18, won the W15 Tianjin doubles title in China on August 22, defeating higher-ranked opponents alongside her Chinese partner to claim her fourth title this year.
Kamalvarn Yodpetch, 18, ranked 636th globally in doubles, and Chinese partner Zhang Ruiyuan (ranked 623rd) won the W15 Tianjin women's doubles title on August 22, 2026, in Tianjin, China. In the final, the fourth-seeded pair upset second seeds Lin Fangyuan (ranked 504th) and Yang Yayi (ranked 484th) of Taiwan 2-1 in sets with scores of 6-3, 1-6, and 10-7 in a super tiebreak, earning 955 US dollars (approximately 31,495 baht) each plus 15 ranking points. This was Kamalvarn's fourth women's doubles title of 2025 and her sixth since the start of the year. Meanwhile, 33-year-old Thai player Piang Paliputch (ranked 763rd globally) lost in the women's singles semifinal to Japan's Rinko Matsuda (ranked 492nd), the fourth seed, falling 0-2 in sets with scores of 2-6 and 4-6.
