Aircel Chennai Open - ATP 250

[Moxie]

DATE: 2-8 January, 2017
SURFACE: Outdoor Hard
PRIZE MONEY: $505,730
FIELD SIZE: 28
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Stan Wawrinka

Seeds:

1. Marin Cilic
2. Roberto Bautista Agut
3. Albert Ramos-Vinolas
4. Martin Klizan
5. Benoit Paire
6. Borna Coric
7. Mikhail Youhzny
8. Yen-Hsun Lu

The Tournament:

In its 21st year, and 11th year in Chennai. Stan Wawrinka has won the last 3 years running.

About Chennai

Formerly known as Madras, Chennai is located off the Bay of Bengal. It is a major cultural, economic and educational center, and is considered the safest city in India.

 

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The Draw:

 

[Moxie]

#NextGen alert: Borna Coric plays Hyeon Chung. Chung is a qualifier, and has fallen off the radar a bit, but he's one of the youngsters folks have had an eye on. Just sayin'....

 

[Moxie]

Chung won: 6-3, 7-5. I guess Coric is still working his way back from injury.

 

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Results from the Chennai Open Men's Singles Round 1 matches on Monday

Chung Hyeon (South Korea) beat 6-Borna Coric (Croatia) 6-3 7-5
Jozef Kovalik (Slovakia) beat Gastao Elias (Portugal) 6-7(5) 6-4 6-2
Daniil Medvedev (Russia) beat Thiago Monteiro (Brazil) 6-3 6-3
Dudi Sela (Israel) beat Damir Dzumhur (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 6-2 6-2
Steve Darcis (Belgium) beat Nikola Mektic (Croatia) 6-2 6-3

 

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Chung won: 6-3, 7-5. I guess Coric is still working his way back from injury.

Still carrying a torch for Chung? :heart:

Good win for him.

 

[Moxie]

Still carrying a torch for Chung? :heart:

Good win for him.

I was actually rooting for Coric, but just wanted Chung to be remembered. I'm like @elDude, in that I'm rooting for all the youngsters to do well enough to bring up an exciting generation of players. Now, had he been playing Tiafoe....

 

[mrzz]

Results from the Chennai Open Men's Singles Round 1 matches on Monday
Daniil Medvedev (Russia) beat Thiago Monteiro (Brazil) 6-3 6-3

Not a tragedy for the Brazilian hopeful (which I surely believe will achieve very good results at some point), but I guess it might be the first of many losses in hard courts. He still trains in a Brazilian tennis academy that surely has no clue on hard courts. Last year his results were awful in this surface and they simply never put him to play the tournaments... The guy has a huge forehand so he should do better on hards.

 

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Results from the Chennai Open Men's Singles Round 1 matches on Tuesday

Rogerio Dutra Silva (Brazil) beat Dusan Lajovic (Serbia) 7-6(2) 4-6 7-6(3)
7-Mikhail Youzhny (Russia) beat Saketh Myneni (India) 6-4 6-3
5-Benoit Paire (France) beat Konstantin Kravchuk (Russia) 6-3 6-4
Yuki Bhambri (India) beat Ramkumar Ramanathan (India) 6-1 6-1
8-Lu Yen-Hsun (Taiwan) beat Radu Albot (Moldova) 6-2 6-1
Aljaz Bedene (Britain) beat Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spain) 6-3 6-3
Renzo Olivo (Argentina) beat Casper Ruud (Norway) 7-6(3) 6-2

 

[Tennis Fan]

Results from the Chennai Open Men's Singles Round 1 matches on Tuesday

Rogerio Dutra Silva (Brazil) beat Dusan Lajovic (Serbia) 7-6(2) 4-6 7-6(3)
7-Mikhail Youzhny (Russia) beat Saketh Myneni (India) 6-4 6-3
5-Benoit Paire (France) beat Konstantin Kravchuk (Russia) 6-3 6-4
Yuki Bhambri (India) beat Ramkumar Ramanathan (India) 6-1 6-1
8-Lu Yen-Hsun (Taiwan) beat Radu Albot (Moldova) 6-2 6-1
Aljaz Bedene (Britain) beat Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spain) 6-3 6-3
Renzo Olivo (Argentina) beat Casper Ruud (Norway) 7-6(3) 6-2

Another tournament I haven't heard a word about. TTC is getting on my nerves.

 

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Results from the Chennai Open Men's Singles Round 2 matches on Wednesday

Dudi Sela (Israel) beat Chung Hyeon (South Korea) 6-2 6-2
Jozef Kovalik (Slovakia) beat 1-Marin Cilic (Croatia) 7-6(5) 5-7 7-5
Daniil Medvedev (Russia) beat 8-Lu Yen-Hsun (Taiwan) 6-4 6-3
3-Albert Ramos (Spain) beat Steve Darcis (Belgium) 6-2 6-0

 

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Results from the Chennai Open Men's Singles Quarterfinal matches on Friday

2-Roberto Bautista (Spain) beat 7-Mikhail Youzhny (Russia) 2-6 6-4 6-4
5-Benoit Paire (France) beat Aljaz Bedene (Britain) 6-3 6-0
Dudi Sela (Israel) beat 3-Albert Ramos (Spain) 7-5 6-4
Daniil Medvedev (Russia) beat Jozef Kovalik (Slovakia) 6-1 6-4

 

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Results from the Chennai Open Men's Singles Semifinal matches on Saturday

2-Roberto Bautista (Spain) beat 5-Benoit Paire (France) 6-3 6-3
Daniil Medvedev (Russia) beat Dudi Sela (Israel) 4-6 7-6(2) 6-2

 

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Result from the Chennai Open Men's Singles Final on Sunday

2-Roberto Bautista (Spain) beat Daniil Medvedev (Russia) 6-3 6-4

 

[Billie]

No surprise that RBA won here. Cilic losing to somebody I don't know much about is a big surprise for me.

 

[Moxie]

Congrats to Roberto. He really needed not to blow that opportunity. Cilic? Always a head-scratcher, win OR lose.