Maharashtra Open

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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.

TATA Open Maharashtra
Tournament information
Event name
  • McDowell Open
    (1996)
  • Gold Flake Open
    (1997–2001)
  • Tata Open
    (2002–2004)
  • Chennai Open
    (2005–2009)
  • Aircel Chennai Open
    (2010–2017)
  • Tata Open Maharashtra
    (2018–2023)[1]
Sponsor
Tata motors
Founded1996; 28 years ago (1996)
Editions27 (2023)
LocationPune
India
VenueMhalunge Balewadi Tennis Complex (2018 — present)[1]
Category
SurfaceHard – Outdoors
Draw28S/16Q/16D
Prize moneyUS$713,495 (2023)
Most singles titlesStan Wawrinka
Websitemaharashtraopen.com
Current champions (2023)
SinglesNetherlands Tallon Griekspoor
DoublesBelgium Sander Gillé
Belgium Joran Vliegen
ATP Tour
CategoryATP 250

Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association (MSLTA), 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.[3][4]

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.[8]

History

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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.[9]

In 2021 due to COVID-19 and clash of dates with Australian Open it was not organised.[10]

Stadium

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Maharashtra Open is annually held at Mhalunge Balewadi Tennis Complex at Pune in India. It is a hard court championship.[11]

Past finals

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Singles

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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[12]
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

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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[12]
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

Sponsors

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  • Tata motors (Title sponsor)
  • MMRDA
  • 1xBat
  • Panchshil
  • Dunlop
  • Indian tree (apparel partner)
  • IMG

Source -[13]

Television broadcast

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Maharashtra Open is live and exclusively airs on Sports 18 HD channel and live streams on Jio cinema app in India.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Tata Open 2022 Maharashtra All You Need to Know: ATP 250 Event in Numbers". News18. 31 January 2022. Archived from the original on 31 January 2022. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Tata Open Maharashtra – South Asia's only ATP World Tour Tennis Tournament". www.maharashtraopen.com. Archived from the original on 27 December 2017. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Tata Open to be rescheduled, organisers in talks with ATP for new dates". Sportstar. 20 December 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Change in ATP schedule means no big stars for India's only ATP event". The Indian Express. 2 February 2020. Archived from the original on 16 September 2021. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
  5. ^ Marar, Nandakumar (6 December 2017). "India's ATP event becomes Tata Open again". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 23 March 2021. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  6. ^ "IMG Reliance rebranded as RISE Worldwide". mint. 27 January 2021. Archived from the original on 28 January 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  7. ^ "Indian players relieved they have not lost only ATP World Tour event". TOI. PTI. 20 July 2017. Archived from the original on 29 April 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  8. ^ "Maharashtra Open 2023: India's N Sriram Balaji-Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan lose doubles final". Olympics.
  9. ^ "Maharashtra Open doubtful for 2021 ATP season". Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 16 September 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  10. ^ "Maharashtra Open dropped from early 2021 ATP calendar, may return later". Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 17 September 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  11. ^ Basu, Sohinee. "Tata Open Maharashtra 2020: Where to watch and live stream details". www.sportskeeda.com. Archived from the original on 16 September 2021. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
  12. ^ a b Sudarchan, N (5 January 2022). "Tata Open Maharashtra on schedule despite Omicron surge". Sportstar. Archived from the original on 1 February 2022. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  13. ^ Maharashtra Open website
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