Mananchaya Sawangkaew

Mananchaya Sawangkaew
มนัญชญา สว่างแก้ว
	Sawangkaew in Cary in 2024
Country (sports)	Thailand
Born	10 July 2002 (age 22)
Plays	Right (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$153,214
Singles
Career record	153–76
Career titles	3 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 182 (19 August 2024)
Current ranking	No. 187 (23 September 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Wimbledon	Q1 (2024)
US Open	Q3 (2024)
Doubles
Career record	41–38
Career titles	1 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 546 (31 July 2023)
Current ranking	No. 584 (23 September 2024)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	2–2
	Last updated on: 25 September 2024.

Mananchaya Sawangkaew (Thai: มนัญชญา สว่างแก้ว; born 10 July 2002) is a tennis player from Thailand. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 182 by the WTA, achieved on 19 August 2024, and a doubles ranking of No. 546, achieved on 31 July 2023. She is currently the No. 1 Thai player. Sawangkaew has won three singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit.

On the ITF Junior Circuit, she achieved a career-high combined ranking of No. 14, on 28 January 2019. She reached the quarterfinals of the girls' singles draw at the 2019 Australian Open.^[1]

Career

Sawangkaew made her debut for Thailand Fed Cup team in 2019.^[2]

She received a wildcard for the qualifying competition at the 2020 Thailand Open in Hua Hin but lost to second qualifying seed Chihiro Muramatsu.

She made her WTA main draw debut at the 2024 Thailand Open 2 in Hia Hin, after qualifying^[3] but lost to eventual champion Rebecca Šramková.^[4] She also qualified for the next tournament, the WTA 1000 2024 China Open making her debut at this WTA level and defeated fellow qualifier Zarina Diyas for her first WTA Tour and first WTA 1000 win in straight sets.^[5]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 10 (3 titles, 7 runner-ups)

Legend
W75 tournaments (0–1)
W40/50 tournaments (1–2)
W25 tournaments (1–1)
W15 tournaments (1–3)

Finals by surface
Hard (3–6)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	May 2018	ITF Hua Hin, Thailand	W15	Hard	Bunyawi Thamchaiwat	1–6, 7–6⁽³⁾, 2–1 ret.
Loss	1–1	Oct 2019	ITF Hua Hin, Thailand	W15	Hard	Moyuka Uchijima	2–6, 4–6
Loss	1–2	Jun 2022	ITF Chiang Rai, Thailand	W15	Hard	Naho Sato	4–6, 2–6
Loss	1–3	Nov 2022	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	W15	Hard	Aliona Falei	1–6, 5–7
Loss	1–4	Jan 2023	ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand	W40	Hard	Lanlana Tararudee	6–2, 1–6, 0–6
Loss	1–5	May 2023	ITF Goyang, South Korea	W25	Hard	Hanna Chang	2–6, 4–6
Win	2–5	Jul 2023	ITF Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand	W25	Hard	Sahaja Yamalapalli	6–4, 6–0
Loss	2–6	Aug 2023	ITF Hong Kong, China SAR	W40	Hard	Yang Ya-yi	3–6, 6–4, 3–6
Win	3–6	Jan 2024	ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand	W50	Hard	Antonia Ružić	6–1, 2–6, 6–2
Loss	3–7	Aug 2024	Lexington Challenger, United States	W75	Hard	Wei Sijia	5–7, 4–6

Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner–ups)

Legend
W25 tournaments (0–1)
W15 tournaments (1–2)

Finals by surface
Hard (1–3)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Dec 2018	ITF Hua Hin, Thailand	W15	Hard	Joanna Garland	Nadia Ravita Aldila Sutjiadi	2–6, 4–6
Win	1–1	Apr 2019	ITF Sharm El Sheik, Egypt	W15	Hard	Thasaporn Naklo	Katarina Kuzmová Zhibek Kulambayeva	6–3, 7–5
Loss	1–2	Jan 2020	ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand	W25	Hard	Supapitch Kuearum	Ankita Raina Bibiane Schoofs	4–6, 2–6
Loss	1–3	Nov 2022	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	W15	Hard	Dong Na	Cho Yi-tsen Cho I-hsuan	2–6, 6–7⁽⁴⁾