The Chennai Open is a WTA 250 event played on outdoor hard courts at the SDAT Tennis Stadium in Chennai, India. It was first held in 2022 and returned to the calendar in 2025, according to the WTA, and its third edition runs in the first week of November, the same week as the Hong Kong Tennis Open and the week before the WTA Finals. This guide covers the dates, format, points, history and every champion.
2026 dates and format
- Main draw: Monday 2 November to Sunday 8 November 2026
- Venue: SDAT Tennis Stadium, Chennai
- Surface: outdoor hard
- Category: WTA 250
- Singles draw: 32 players
- Doubles draw: 16 teams
- Total financial commitment: US$283,347, according to the WTA
The WTA’s tournament page describes the field as 32 singles players, 16 qualifiers and 16 doubles teams. [UNVERIFIED: whether “16 qualifiers” means a 16-player qualifying draw, from the WTA tournament page; confirm against the qualifying draw sheet] The 2026 qualifying dates and draw ceremony had not been published by the WTA when this guide was written. [UNVERIFIED: 2026 qualifying dates and draw ceremony time; add once the tournament confirms]
Ranking points
As a WTA 250 with a 32-player singles draw, Chennai awards the standard WTA 250 points. [UNVERIFIED: points table taken from the WTA ranking point chart published by the ITF, which is headed “2025”; confirm it applies unchanged in 2026]
- Winner: 250
- Finalist: 163
- Semi-finalist: 98
- Quarter-finalist: 54
- Second round (last 16): 30
- First round: 1
- Qualifier: 18
History
The WTA Tour came to India with the first Chennai Open in September 2022. That week 17-year-old Linda Fruhvirtova came from a set down to beat No. 3 seed Magda Linette 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 for her first WTA singles title, converting three of her six break points and saving seven of the nine she faced, according to the WTA. The doubles went to top seeds Gabriela Dabrowski and Luisa Stefani.
The tournament was not played again until 2025, when it returned in a late-October slot, from 27 October to 2 November. Indonesia’s Janice Tjen beat Australia’s Kimberly Birrell 6-4, 6-3 in the final. A 13-deuce fourth game helped her to an early lead, and from 3-3 in the first set she won seven of the next eight games, the WTA reported. She became the first player from Indonesia to win a tour-level singles title in 23 years.
Later the same day Tjen won the doubles with compatriot Aldila Sutjiadi, beating top seeds Storm Hunter and Monica Niculescu 7-5, 6-4. That made her the third player of the 2025 season to win the singles and doubles titles at the same event, after Jasmine Paolini in Rome and Maya Joint in Rabat, according to the WTA.
Past champions
| Year | Singles champion | Runner-up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Janice Tjen (INA) | Kimberly Birrell (AUS) | 6-4, 6-3 |
| 2023–2024 | Not held | ||
| 2022 | Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE) | Magda Linette (POL) | 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 |
| Year | Doubles champions | Runners-up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Aldila Sutjiadi (INA) / Janice Tjen (INA) | Storm Hunter (AUS) / Monica Niculescu (ROU) | 7-5, 6-4 |
| 2022 | Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) / Luisa Stefani (BRA) | Anna Blinkova / Natela Dzalamidze (GEO) | 6-1, 6-2 |
Where it sits in the calendar
Chennai shares its week with the Hong Kong Tennis Open, the other WTA 250 that closes the Asian swing. The WTA Finals at Indian Wells follow in mid-November; the ATP Finals and WTA Finals guide covers the format, and WTA Finals Qualification Explained sets out how the eight-player field is decided.
