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Maharashtra Open
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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]

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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]

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History

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Stan Wawrinka is the most successful player at the event, winning 4 titles (2011, 2014, 2015, and 2016) and reaching a further final (2010).
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Indian duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes won the doubles titles four times between 1997 and 2002, and again in 2011

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]

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Stadium

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

Past finals

Singles

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Doubles

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Sponsors

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

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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

References

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