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Indian Tennis championship
Tennis tournament
The Maharashtra Open
[2] (known as
Tata Open Maharashtra for sponsorship reasons) was an annual men's
ATP Tour 250
Tennis championship in
Pune . It was a part of the
ATP Tour till 2023.
Maharashtra Lawn Tennis Association (MLTA), the governing body of Tennis in
Maharashtra state annually organised at
Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex . It was a hard court championship and men's singles and doubles matches were organised.
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The inaugural event was held in
New Delhi . It was then shifted to
Chennai since its second edition, and from there it was moved to Pune in 2018, where it is held in January.
[5] The tournament is owned and organized by RISE Worldwide .
[6] It was the only tour level tennis event currently held in India.
[7] It was also the only South Asia's ATP tour professional tennis event.
[3]
Tallon Griekspoor of Netherlands is the current title holder in singles and Belgium’s
Sander Gille and
Joran Vliegen are the current title holder in doubles by winning finals in
2023 .
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History
Stan Wawrinka is the most successful player at the event, winning 4 titles (2011, 2014, 2015, and 2016) and reaching a further final (2010).
Indian duo of
Mahesh Bhupathi and
Leander Paes won the doubles titles four times between 1997 and 2002, and again in 2011
Maharashtra Open is held since 1996. In its first year it was located in New Delhi, then in Chennai where it was renamed as Chennai Open. The championship moved from there to Pune, a city of Maharashtra, in 2018 and was rebranded as Maharashtra Open.
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In 2021 due to COVID-19 and clash of dates with
Australian Open it was not organised.
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Stadium
Maharashtra Open is annually held at Mhalunge
Balewadi Tennis Complex at Pune in India. It is a hard court championship.
[11]
Past finals
Singles
Year
Champions
Runners-up
Score
↓ New Delhi ↓
1996
Thomas Enqvist
Byron Black
6–2, 7–6(7–3)
↓ Chennai ↓
1997
Mikael Tillström
Alex Rădulescu
6–4, 4–6, 7–5
1998
Patrick Rafter
Mikael Tillström
6–3, 6–4
1999
Byron Black
Rainer Schüttler
6–4, 1–6, 6–3
2000
Jérôme Golmard
Markus Hantschk
6–3, 6–7(6–8) , 6–3
2001
Michal Tabara
Andrei Stoliarov
6–2, 7–6(7–4)
2002
Guillermo Cañas
Paradorn Srichaphan
6–4, 7–6(7–2)
2003
Paradorn Srichaphan
Karol Kučera
6–3, 6–1
2004
Carlos Moyá
Paradorn Srichaphan
6–4, 3–6, 7–6(7–5)
2005
Carlos Moyá (2)
Paradorn Srichaphan
3–6, 6–4, 7–6(7–5)
2006
Ivan Ljubičić
Carlos Moyá
7–6(8–6) , 6–2
2007
Xavier Malisse
Stefan Koubek
6–1, 6–3
2008
Mikhail Youzhny
Rafael Nadal
6–0, 6–1
2009
Marin Čilić
Somdev Devvarman
6–4, 7–6(7–3)
2010
Marin Čilić (2)
Stan Wawrinka
7–6(7–2) , 7–6(7–3)
2011
Stan Wawrinka
Xavier Malisse
7–5, 4–6, 6–1
2012
Milos Raonic
Janko Tipsarević
6–7(4–7) , 7–6(7–4) , 7–6(7–4)
2013
Janko Tipsarević
Roberto Bautista Agut
3–6, 6–1, 6–3
2014
Stan Wawrinka (2)
Édouard Roger-Vasselin
7–5, 6–2
2015
Stan Wawrinka (3)
Aljaž Bedene
6–3, 6–4
2016
Stan Wawrinka (4)
Borna Ćorić
6–3, 7–5
2017
Roberto Bautista Agut
Daniil Medvedev
6–3, 6–4
↓ Pune ↓
2018
Gilles Simon
Kevin Anderson
7–6(7–4) , 6–2
2019
Kevin Anderson
Ivo Karlović
7–6(7–4) , 6–7(2–7) , 7–6(7–5)
2020
Jiří Veselý
Egor Gerasimov
7–6(7–2) , 5–7, 6–3
2021
tournament not held, due to
COVID-19 restrictions
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2022
João Sousa
Emil Ruusuvuori
7–6(11–9) , 4–6, 6–1
2023
Tallon Griekspoor
Benjamin Bonzi
4–6, 7–5, 6–3
Doubles
Year
Champions
Runners-up
Score
↓ New Delhi ↓
1996
Jonas Björkman
Nicklas Kulti
Byron Black
Sandon Stolle
4–6, 6–4, 6–4
↓ Chennai ↓
1997
Mahesh Bhupathi
Leander Paes
Oleg Ogorodov
Eyal Ran
7–6, 7–5
1998
Mahesh Bhupathi (2)
Leander Paes (2)
Olivier Delaître
Max Mirnyi
6–7, 6–3, 6–2
1999
Mahesh Bhupathi (3)
Leander Paes (3)
Wayne Black
Neville Godwin
4–6, 7–5, 6–4
2000
Julien Boutter
Christophe Rochus
Saurav Panja
Prahlad Srinath
7–5, 6–1
2001
Byron Black
Wayne Black
Barry Cowan
Mosé Navarra
6–3, 6–4
2002
Mahesh Bhupathi (4)
Leander Paes (4)
Tomáš Cibulec
Ota Fukárek
5–7, 6–2, 7–5
2003
Julian Knowle
Michael Kohlmann
František Čermák
Leoš Friedl
7–6(7–1) , 7–6(7–3)
2004
Rafael Nadal
Tommy Robredo
Jonathan Erlich
Andy Ram
7–6(7–3) , 4–6, 6–3
2005
Lu Yen-hsun
Rainer Schüttler
Mahesh Bhupathi
Jonas Björkman
7–5, 4–6, 7–6(7–4)
2006
Michal Mertiňák
Petr Pála
Prakash Amritraj
Rohan Bopanna
6–2, 7–5
2007
Xavier Malisse
Dick Norman
Rafael Nadal
Bartolomé Salvá-Vidal
7–6(7–4) , 7–6(7–4)
2008
Sanchai Ratiwatana
Sonchat Ratiwatana
Marcos Baghdatis
Marc Gicquel
6–4, 7–5
2009
Eric Butorac
Rajeev Ram
Jean-Claude Scherrer
Stan Wawrinka
6–3, 6–4
2010
Marcel Granollers
Santiago Ventura
Lu Yen-hsun
Janko Tipsarević
7–5, 6–2
2011
Mahesh Bhupathi (5)
Leander Paes (5)
Robin Haase
David Martin
6–2, 6–7(3–7) , [10–7]
2012
Leander Paes (6)
Janko Tipsarević
Jonathan Erlich
Andy Ram
6–4, 6–4
2013
Benoît Paire
Stanislas Wawrinka
Andre Begemann
Martin Emmrich
6–2, 6–1
2014
Johan Brunström
Frederik Nielsen
Marin Draganja
Mate Pavić
6–2, 4–6, [10–7]
2015
Lu Yen-hsun (2)
Jonathan Marray
Raven Klaasen
Leander Paes
6–3, 7–6(7–4)
2016
Oliver Marach
Fabrice Martin
Austin Krajicek
Benoît Paire
6–3, 7–5
2017
Rohan Bopanna
Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan
Purav Raja
Divij Sharan
6–3, 6–4
↓ Pune ↓
2018
Robin Haase
Matwé Middelkoop
Pierre-Hugues Herbert
Gilles Simon
7–6(7–5) , 7–6(7–5)
2019
Rohan Bopanna (2)
Divij Sharan
Luke Bambridge
Jonny O'Mara
6–3, 6–4
2020
André Göransson
Christopher Rungkat
Jonathan Erlich
Andrei Vasilevski
6–2, 3–6, [10–8]
2021
tournament not held, due to
COVID-19 restrictions
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2022
Rohan Bopanna (3)
Ramkumar Ramanathan
Luke Saville
John-Patrick Smith
6–7(10–12) , 6–3, [10–6]
2023
Sander Gillé
Joran Vliegen
Sriram Balaji
Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan
6–4, 6–4
Tata motors (Title sponsor)
MMRDA
1xBat
Panchshil
Dunlop
Indian tree (apparel partner)
IMG
Source -
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Television broadcast
Maharashtra Open is live and exclusively airs on
Sports 18 HD channel and live streams on
Jio cinema app in India.
See also
References
External links
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