The 2013

Aircel Chennai Open The Maharashtra Open (known as Tata Open Maharashtra for sponsorship reasons) is a professional men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Pune, India. It is part of the ATP Tour 250 series on the ATP Tour. The inaugural event w ...

was a

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tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

tournament, played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 18th edition of the only ATP tournament taking place in India and took place at the

SDAT Tennis Stadium Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu Tennis Stadium, commonly known as SDAT Stadium, sometimes also called Nungambakkam Tennis Stadium, is located in Nungambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, and played host for the Chennai Open ATP Tenni ...

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, India. It was held from 31 December to 6 January.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings as of 24 December 2012

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Tomáš Berdych * Yuki Bhambri * Somdev Devvarman The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Prakash Amritraj * Ruben Bemelmans *

Rajeev Ram Rajeev Ram ( ; born March 18, 1984) is an American professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles. Ram is a five-time major champion, having won the 2020 Australian Open, the 2021 US Open, and the 2022 US Open in men's d ...

* Cedrik-Marcel Stebe

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings as of 24 December 2012

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: *

Sriram Balaji Sriram Balaji (born 18 March 1990) is an Indian professional tennis player. Balaji has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 287, achieved on 19 June 2017 and a doubles ranking of world No. 96 achieved on 23 July 2018. Balaji has won ...

/ Jeevan Nedunchezhian *

Sanam Singh Sanam Krishan Singh (born 11 January 1988), is a former Indian tennis player. Singh won the doubles gold medal and the bronze in the team event at the 2010 Asian Games. He added another Asian Games medal to his tally by winning the Silver meda ...

/ Vishnu Vardhan The following pair received entry as alternates: * Somdev Devvarman / Sergiy Stakhovsky

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament *

Philipp Petzschner Philipp Petzschner (born 24 March 1984) is a retired German professional tennis player. He was known for his hard-hitting forehand and bursts of speed around the court. He reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 9, which he achieved in ...

(knee injury)

Finals

Singles

Janko Tipsarević Janko Tipsarević ( sr-cyr, Јанко Типсаревић, ; born 22 June 1984) is a Serbian former tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 8, achieved on 2 April 2012. In his career, he won 4 ATP World Tour titles, one AT ...

defeated Roberto Bautista Agut, 3–6, 6–1, 6–3 * It was Tipsarevic's 4th career title.

Doubles

Benoît Paire Benoît Paire (; born 8 May 1989) is a French professional tennis player. His best result in a Grand Slam has been reaching the fourth round, which he has achieved on four occasions. He has won three singles titles, at the 2015 Swedish Open, t ...

/ Stanislas Wawrinka defeated

Andre Begemann Andre Begemann (born 12 July 1984) is a German inactive professional tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player ...

Martin Emmrich Martin Emmrich (born 17 December 1984) is a German retired professional tennis player who specialized in doubles, participating primarily in the ATP World Tour. On 12 October 2009, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 604 whilst his h ...

, 6–2, 6–1

References

External links

Official website
{{2013 ATP World Tour

Chennai Open