Maharashtra Open
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| TATA Open Maharashtra | |||||
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| Sponsor | Tata motors
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| Founded | 1996 | ||||
| Editions | 27 (2023) | ||||
| Location | Pune India | ||||
| Venue | Mhalunge Balewadi Tennis Complex (2018 — present)[1] | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
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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, before being moved to Hong Kong.[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 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.[9]
History
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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.[10]
In 2021 due to COVID-19 and clash of dates with Australian Open it was not organised.[11]
Stadium
[edit]Maharashtra Open is annually held at Mhalunge Balewadi Tennis Complex at Pune in India. It is a hard court championship.[12]
Past finals
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Doubles
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Sponsors
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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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[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Tennis: India's only ATP 250 event set to relocate outside the country as Pune's contract ends". Scroll.in. 9 June 2023.
- ^ a b "Tata Open to be rescheduled, organisers in talks with ATP for new dates". Sportstar. 20 December 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "IMG Reliance rebranded as RISE Worldwide". mint. 27 January 2021. Archived from the original on 28 January 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Maharashtra Open 2023: India's N Sriram Balaji-Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan lose doubles final". Olympics.
- ^ "Maharashtra Open doubtful for 2021 ATP season". Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 16 September 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Maharashtra Open website
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