The Chennai Open – a WTA 250 Worldwide Ladies's Tennis Championship 2022 – will likely be held on the SDAT Stadium in Nungambakkam between September 10 and September 18.
Gamers within the high 100 of the Ladies's Tennis Affiliation (WTA) rankings will get a direct entry and Vijay Amritraj, president of the Tamil Nadu Tennis Affiliation, stated India's high two singles gamers – Ankita Raina (169) and Karman Thandi (494) – will get wildcards for the primary draw.
“The intention is to have extra Indian girls and boys enjoying in world tour occasions. We need to encourage kids to get their rankings up in order that they will get direct entry into these occasions, and we cannot have to provide wildcards.” Amritraj stated.
Amritraj additionally hopes that Sania Mirza, torchbearer of Indian ladies’s tennis, will play the match, permitting the organisers to provide her a befitting farewell.
Sania, earlier this yr, had introduced that the 2022 Wimbledon will likely be her final skilled occasion within the circuit.
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Amritraj is working with the Tamil Nadu authorities and the Affiliation of Tennis Professionals (ATP) to convey again the lads’s tour occasion, which was efficiently run within the metropolis between 1997 to 2017.
“We’ll need to see the calendar motion. We're working intently with calendar committee, ATP and licence holders for it to happen within the 2023-24 season,” Amritraj stated.
The ATP 250 occasion, held in early January, was used as a pitstop by many high gamers to get factors and apply in humid circumstances within the run-up to the Australian Open. The organisers are hoping to safe the same dateline for subsequent yr’s occasion as properly.
Tamil Nadu Sports activities Minister Siva V Meyyanathan, Principal Secretary Sports activities, Selvi Apoorva, IAS – current on the event – provided the state authorities’s help within the affiliation’s efforts to convey again high-quality tennis occasions to the town.
