Chennai Open 2025: All you need to know about the ATP Challenger, schedule, players, prize money
Chennai Open 2025: All you need to know about the ATP Challenger, schedule, players, prize money
Chennai will host the Chennai Open ATP Challenger 100 Men’s International Tennis Championship 2025 from February 2nd to 9th. The Tamil Nadu Tennis Association will host the tournament at the SDAT Tennis Stadium in Nungambakkam.
In this edition of the tournament players from 14 countries including, Czech Republic, Great Britain, South Africa, Croatia, Japan, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Canada, Uzbekistan, Spain, Hungary, France, Italy, and Turkey will be participating.
The top seed is Billy Harris of Great Britan ranked 127 now among the top 8 player in Great Britan. He is followed at No 2 by Lloyd Harris of Republic of South Africa ranked 135.The other seeds are Duje Ajdukovic (CRO-138), Shintaro Mochizuki (JPN-169), Sho Shimabukuro (JPN – 191) Timofey Skatov (KAZ-194), Alexis Galarneau (CAN-198), Khumoyun Sultanov (UZB – 216) and Aslan Karatsev (222).
Ramkumar Ramanathan, Mukund Sasikumar and Karan Singh, members of India’s current Davis Cup team, the former two being from Tamil Nadu, have been given wild cards for the main draw.
Anne Bees of Canada will be the ATP Supervisor she will be added by referee Santhosh Venkatraman and P Saravanan as the chief of officials.
In the last ATP Challenger event held in 2024 in Chennai, Sumit Nagal, India’s top player, won the event and went on to crack the top hundred in world ranking, eventually reaching a career high ranking of 68 later in the year.
TNTA is celebrating 2025 as its centenary year and is proud of the fact that every year since 1996, barring the COVID years a major international event has been conducted at the SDAT Tennis Stadium.
The Chennai Event is the first of a series of ATP Challenger 100 events to be held in India. The next few tournaments are to be held at Delhi, Pune, and Bengaluru.
