2022 Chennai Open

2022 Chennai Open
2022 Chennai Open
Date	12–18 September
Edition	7th
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 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.

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

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

This was Fruhvirtová's first WTA Tour singles title.

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	280	180	110	60	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:

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:

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