Maharashtra Open

TATA Open Maharashtra
Defunct tennis tournament
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
Founded	1996;29 years ago (1996)
Abolished	2023
Editions	27
Location	Pune India
Venue	Mhalunge Balewadi Tennis Complex (2018 — present) [1]
Category	ATP World Series (1996–1997) ATP International Series (1998–2008) ATP Tour 250 (since 2009)
Surface	Hard – Outdoors
Draw	28S/16Q/16D
Prize money	US$713,495 (2023)
Most singles titles	Stan Wawrinka
Website	maharashtraopen.com
Current champions (2023)
Singles	Tallon Griekspoor
Doubles	Sander Gillé Joran Vliegen
ATP Tour Category ATP 250

The Maharashtra Open ^[2] (known as Tata Open Maharashtra for sponsorship reasons) was an annual men's ATP Tour 250 Tennis championship since 1996. It was held in Pune (since 2018) and was part of the ATP Tour, before it was moved to Hong Kong in 2024. ^[3]

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. ^{[4] [5]}

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. ^[6] The tournament is owned and organized by RISE Worldwide. ^[7] It was the only tour level tennis event currently held in India. ^[8] It was also the only South Asia's ATP tour professional tennis event. ^[4]

Tallon Griekspoor of Netherlands was the last title holder in singles and Belgium’s Sander Gillé and Joran Vliegen were the holders in doubles in 2023. ^[9]

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

The Maharashtra Open was held since 1996. In its first year it was located in New Delhi, then in Chennai where it was renamed as the Chennai Open. The championship moved from there to Pune, a city of Maharashtra, in 2018 and was rebranded as the Maharashtra Open. ^[10]

In 2021 due to COVID-19 and a clash of dates with the Australian Open it was not held. ^[11]

Stadium

Maharashtra Open was held at the Mhalunge Balewadi Tennis Complex at Pune in India. It is a hard court championship. ^[12]

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 [13]
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 [13]
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

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

Source - ^[14]

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

• Sports in India
• WTA Indian Open

References

1. "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. "Tennis: India's only ATP 250 event set to relocate outside the country as Pune's contract ends". Scroll.in. 9 June 2023.
4. "Tata Open to be rescheduled, organisers in talks with ATP for new dates". Sportstar. 20 December 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
5. "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.
6. 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.
7. "IMG Reliance rebranded as RISE Worldwide". mint. 27 January 2021. Archived from the original on 28 January 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
8. "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.
9. "Maharashtra Open 2023: India's N Sriram Balaji-Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan lose doubles final". Olympics.
10. "Maharashtra Open doubtful for 2021 ATP season". Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 16 September 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
11. "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.
12. Basu, Sohinee (2 February 2020). "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.
13. 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.
14. Maharashtra Open website

External links

• Tennis portal

• Official website
• ATP tournament profile