2022 Chennai Open

The 2022 Chennai Open was a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts.^[1][2][3] A part of the 2022 WTA Tour, this tournament marked the return of a WTA tournament in India for the first time since 2008.

2022 Chennai Open
Date	12–18 September
Edition	7th (1st as Chennai Open)
Category	WTA 250
Draw	32S / 16D
Prize money	$251,750
Surface	Hard / outdoor
Location	Chennai, India
Venue	SDAT Tennis Stadium, Nungambakkam
Champions
Singles
Linda Fruhvirtová
Doubles
Gabriela Dabrowski / Luisa Stefani

The event was one of the six tournaments that were given single-year WTA 250 licenses in September and October 2022 due to the cancellation of tournaments in China during the 2022 season because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Champions

Singles

Main article: 2022 Chennai Open – Singles

• Linda Fruhvirtová def. Magda Linette, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4

This was Fruhvirtová's first WTA Tour singles title.

Doubles

Main article: 2022 Chennai Open – Doubles

• Gabriela Dabrowski / Luisa Stefani def. Anna Blinkova / Natela Dzalamidze, 6–1, 6–2

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Q	Q2	Q1
Women's singles	280	180	110	60	30	1	18	12	1
Women's doubles					1	—	—	—	—

Prize money

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 321	Q2	Q1
Women's singles	$31,000	$18,037	$10,100	$5,800	$3,675	$2,675	$1,950	$1,270
Women's doubles*	$10,800	$6,300	$3,800	$2,300	$1,750	—	—	—

_{¹Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money.
*per team}

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank†	Seed
USA	Alison Riske-Amritraj	29	1
	Varvara Gracheva	72	2
POL	Magda Linette	73	3
GER	Tatjana Maria	85	4
SWE	Rebecca Peterson	92	5
CHN	Wang Qiang	102	6
CAN	Rebecca Marino	106	7
FRA	Chloé Paquet	111	8

^† Rankings are as of 29 August 2022.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

• Eugenie Bouchard^[4]
• Ankita Raina^[5]
• Karman Thandi

The following player received entry into the singles main draw with a special ranking:

• Yanina Wickmayer

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Jana Fett
• Nao Hibino
• Liang En-shuo
• Kyōka Okamura
• Olivia Tjandramulia
• Mariia Tkacheva

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Caroline Garcia → replaced by Despina Papamichail
• Elise Mertens → replaced by Nadia Podoroska

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
CAN	Gabriela Dabrowski	BRA	Luisa Stefani	105	1
USA	Kaitlyn Christian		Lidziya Marozava	126	2
GEO	Oksana Kalashnikova	UKR	Nadiia Kichenok	153	3
CHN	Han Xinyun	POL	Katarzyna Kawa	155	4

• ¹ Rankings as of 29 August 2022.

Other entrants

The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:

• Sharmada Balu / Riya Bhatia
• Eugenie Bouchard / Yanina Wickmayer

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva / Nadia Podoroska → replaced by Rutuja Bhosale / Karman Thandi
• Miyu Kato / Asia Muhammad → replaced by Justina Mikulskytė / Emily Webley-Smith
• Julia Lohoff / Astra Sharma → replaced by Astra Sharma / Ekaterina Yashina