WTA Chennai Open

Janice TJEN INA vs Magda LINETTE, Chennai 2026

Linette ends Tjen’s Chennai reign to win first title since 2024

Third seed Magda Linette beat top seed and defending champion Janice Tjen 5-7, 6-1, 6-4 in Monday's Chennai Open final, played a day late because of rain and air pollution. The 34-year-old Pole came from a set down for the third match in a row and saved 11 of the 13 break points she faced to win her fourth career title.

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Janice Tjen, Chennai 2026

Defending champion Tjen beats Montgomery to return to the Chennai final

Janice Tjen is one win away from defending her Chennai crown after the Indonesian top seed beat unseeded American Robin Montgomery 6-3, 6-4 in the semi-finals of the WTA Chennai Open. Still unbeaten in Chennai, the first Indonesian to win a WTA singles title since 2002 is now chasing back-to-back trophies.

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Magda Linette, Cincinnati 2025

Linette overturns set deficit and early decider break to reach Chennai semi-finals

Third seed Magda Linette came back from a set and a break down, then a break down in the decider, to beat Mai Hontama 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 in the Chennai quarter-finals. The 2h37 battle took the 2022 runner-up's record at the event to 6-1 and sent her into a second tour-level semi-final of the year. Hontama misses out on becoming the first Japanese semi-finalist in Chennai.

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Robin Montgomery, 2024

Montgomery ends Revathy run in Chennai to set up semi-final against top seed Tjen

Robin Montgomery broke serve five times to beat 17-year-old Indian wild card Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathy 6-3, 6-3 in the Chennai quarter-finals, reaching her third career tour-level semi-final. The American now faces top seed Janice Tjen, a player she has never met. Revathy leaves as the first Indian tour-level quarter-finalist since Sania Mirza in 2012.

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Linda Fruhvirtova in Chennai

Maiden title for teenager Fruhvirtova, upsets Linette to win in Chennai

Linda Fruhvirtova won the final on Sunday afternoon against Magda Linette

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Magda Linette_Roland-Garros_2022
4 years ago

Chennai Open: Linette reaches final

Magda Linette benefitted from the abandonment of Katie Swan (3-0) on Saturday evening....
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Linda Fruhvirtova
4 years ago

Linda Fruhvirtova reaches first WTA final in Chennai, set to break into top 100

Linda Fruhvirtova edged out Nadia Podoroska 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 on Saturday and will...
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Katei Swan backhand
4 years ago

Chennai Open: Swan moves into semis

Katie Swan won against Nao Hibino 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 on Friday evening and...
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Linda Fruhvirtova
4 years ago

Fruhvirtova beats second seed Gracheva, into Chennai last four

Linda Fruhvirtova won against Varvara Gracheva 6-4, 6-3 on Friday afternoon and will...
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Eugenie Bouchard
4 years ago

Bouchard’s run in Chennai comes to an end, Podoroska makes semi-finals

Nadia Podoroska won against Eugenie Bouchard 1-6, 6-4, 6-2 on Friday afternoon and...
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Eugenie Bouchard at Roland-Garros in 2020
4 years ago

Proud, grateful and ready for the Challenge: Eugenie Bouchard plots her comeback via Chennai

After being out of action more than 17 months, the former world No...
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Haresh Ramchandani
Eugenie Bouchard
4 years ago

Bouchard battles on in Chennai, reaches quarter-finals

Eugenie Bouchard defeated Karman Thandi 6-2, 7-6 (2) on Wednesday. She'll play the...
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Linda Fruhvirtova
4 years ago

Fruhvirtova flying in Chennai, into last eight with Peterson victory

Linda Fruhvirtova won against Rebecca Peterson 6-4, 6-2 on Wednesday. She'll play the...
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Anastasia Gasanova in Lyon in 2022
4 years ago

“After the US Open, I actually wanted to take a break from tennis” – Gasanova turns it around in Chennai

Gasanova upset top seed Alison Riske-Amritraj in the first round of the WTA...
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Haresh Ramchandani