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{{Use Indian English|date=May 2023}}
{{TennisEventInfo|2022|Chennai Open|
| date=12–18 September
| edition = 7th (1st as Chennai Open)
| category=[[WTA 250 tournaments|WTA 250]]
| draw=32S / 16D
| prize_money=$251,750
| surface=[[Hardcourt|Hard]] / outdoor
| location=[[Chennai]], India
| venue=[[SDAT Tennis Stadium]], Nungambakkam
| champs= {{flagicon|CZE}} [[Linda Fruhvirtová]]
| champd= {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Gabriela Dabrowski]] / {{flagicon|BRA}} [[Luisa Stefani]]
| before_year = 2008
| before_name = Canara Bank Bangalore Open
| main_name = WTA Indian Open
|after_year= 2025
}}

The '''2022 Chennai Open''' was a professional women's [[tennis]] tournament played on outdoor [[hard court]]s.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thehindu.com/sport/tennis/tennis-wta-chennai/article65413571.ece |title=Chennai returns to international tennis map with 2022 WTA 250 tour |newspaper=The Hindu |date=14 May 2022 |access-date=2022-08-12 |archive-date=2022-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706041325/https://www.thehindu.com/sport/tennis/tennis-wta-chennai/article65413571.ece |url-status=live |last1=Ragav |first1=S. Dipak }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://olympics.com/en/news/chennai-open-wta-250-2022-india-tennis-start-date |title=Chennai Open WTA 250 tennis: Sania Mirza may play - full schedule |access-date=2022-08-12 |archive-date=2022-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812234124/https://olympics.com/en/news/chennai-open-wta-250-2022-india-tennis-start-date |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2662913/hologic-wta-tour-announces-updates-to-2022-calendar |title=Hologic WTA Tour announces updates to 2022 calendar |access-date=2022-08-12 |archive-date=2022-07-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715091858/https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2662913/hologic-wta-tour-announces-updates-to-2022-calendar |url-status=live }}</ref> 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]].

== Finals ==
=== Singles ===
{{main|2022 Chennai Open – Singles}}
{{flagicon|CZE}} [[Linda Fruhvirtová]] defeated {{flagicon|POL}} [[Magda Linette]], 4–6, 6–3, 6–4
* It was Fruhvirtová's first WTA Tour singles title.

=== Doubles ===
{{main|2022 Chennai Open – Doubles}}
{{flagicon|CAN}} [[Gabriela Dabrowski]] / {{flagicon|BRA}} [[Luisa Stefani]] defeated {{flagicon|}} [[Anna Blinkova]] / {{flagicon|GEO}} [[Natela Dzalamidze]], 6–1, 6–2

== Points and prize money ==
=== Point distribution ===
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;"
|-
|style="width:135px; background:#eaeaea;"|'''Event'''
|style="width:80px; background:lime;"|'''W'''
|style="width:80px; background:thistle;"|F
|style="width:80px; background:#ffff00;"|SF
|style="width:80px; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
|style="width:80px; background:#afeeee;"|Round of 16
|style="width:85px; background:#afeeee;"|Round of 32
|style="width:80px;"|Q
|style="width:80px;"|Q2
|style="width:80px;"|Q1
|-
!style="background:#f3f3f3;"|Singles
|rowspan="2"|280
|rowspan="2"|180
|rowspan="2"|110
|rowspan="2"|60
|30
|1
|18
|12
|1
|-
!style="background:#f3f3f3;"|Doubles
|1
|{{n/a}}
|{{n/a}}
|{{n/a}}
|{{n/a}}
|}

=== Prize money ===
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;"
|style="width:135px; background:#eaeaea;"|'''Event'''
|style="width:80px; background:lime;"|'''W'''
|style="width:80px; background:thistle;"|F
|style="width:80px; background:#ffff00;"|SF
|style="width:80px; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
|style="width:80px; background:#afeeee;"|Round of 16
|style="width:85px; background:#afeeee;"|Round of 321
|style="width:80px;"|Q2
|style="width:80px;"|Q1
|-
!style="background:#f3f3f3;"|Singles
|$31,000
|$18,037
|$10,100
|$5,800
|$3,675
|$2,675
|$1,950
|$1,270
|-
!style="background:#f3f3f3;"|Doubles*
|$10,800
|$6,300
|$3,800
|$2,300
|$1,750
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
|}

1Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money. 
*per team

==Singles main-draw entrants==

===Seeds===
{| class="sortable wikitable nowrap"
! width="70"| Country
! width="175"| Player
! Rank†
! Seed
|-
|{{flag|USA}}
|[[Alison Riske-Amritraj]]
|29
|1
|-
|
|[[Varvara Gracheva]]
|72
|2
|-style="background:#fcc;"
|{{flag|POL}}
|[[Magda Linette]]
|73
|3
|-
|{{flag|GER}}
|[[Tatjana Maria]]
|85
|4
|-
|{{flag|SWE}}
|[[Rebecca Peterson]]
|92
|5
|-
|{{flag|CHN}}
|[[Wang Qiang (tennis)|Wang Qiang]]
|102
|6
|-
|{{flag|CAN}}
|[[Rebecca Marino]]
|106
|7
|-
|{{flag|FRA}}
|[[Chloé Paquet]]
|111
|8
|}

† Rankings are as of 29 August 2022.

===Other entrants===
The following players received [[Wild card (sports)|wildcards]] into the main draw:
* {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Eugenie Bouchard]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://olympics.com/en/news/chennai-open-2022-tennis-wta-250-eugenie-bouchard-wild-card-sania-mirza-india | title=Chennai Open 2022: Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard handed wildcard, Sania Mirza may play | publisher=olympics.com | date=24 August 2022 | accessdate=18 May 2023 }}</ref>
* {{flagicon|IND}} [[Ankita Raina]]<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.outlookindia.com/sports/chennai-open-2022-ankita-raina-gets-wild-card-entry-in-women-s-singles-draw-news-218429 | title=Chennai Open 2022: Ankita Raina Gets Wild Card Entry In Women's Singles Draw | publisher=Outlook | location=India | agency=PTI | date=23 August 2022 | accessdate=18 May 2023}}</ref>
* {{flagicon|IND}} [[Karman Thandi]]

The following player received entry into the singles main draw with a special ranking:
* {{flagicon|BEL}} [[Yanina Wickmayer]]

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
* {{flagicon|CRO}} [[Jana Fett]]
* {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Nao Hibino]]
* {{flagicon|TPE}} [[Liang En-shuo]]
* {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kyōka Okamura]]
* {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Olivia Tjandramulia]]
* {{flagicon|}} [[Mariia Tkacheva]]

=== Withdrawals ===
; Before the tournament
* {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Caroline Garcia]] → replaced by {{flagicon|GRE}} [[Despina Papamichail]]
* {{flagicon|BEL}} [[Elise Mertens]] → replaced by {{flagicon|ARG}} [[Nadia Podoroska]]

== Doubles main-draw entrants ==
=== Seeds ===
{|class="sortable wikitable"
|-
!width="70"| Country
!width="175"| Player
!width="70"| Country
!width="175"| Player
!Rank1
!Seed
|-style="background:#cfc;"
|{{flag|CAN}}
|[[Gabriela Dabrowski]]
|{{flag|BRA}}
|[[Luisa Stefani]]
|105
|1
|-
|{{flag|USA}}
|[[Kaitlyn Christian]]
|
|[[Lidziya Marozava]]
|126
|2
|-
|{{flag|GEO}}
|[[Oksana Kalashnikova]]
|{{flag|UKR}}
|[[Nadiia Kichenok]]
|153
|3
|-
|{{flag|CHN}}
|[[Han Xinyun]]
|{{flag|POL}}
|[[Katarzyna Kawa]]
|155
|4
|}
* 1 Rankings as of 29 August 2022.

===Other entrants===
The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:
* {{flagicon|IND}} [[Sharmada Balu]] / {{flagicon|IND}} [[Riya Bhatia]]
* {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Eugenie Bouchard]] / {{flagicon|BEL}} [[Yanina Wickmayer]]

===Withdrawals===
;Before the tournament
* {{flagicon|AND}} [[Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva]] / {{flagicon|ARG}} [[Nadia Podoroska]] → replaced by {{flagicon|IND}} [[Rutuja Bhosale]] / {{flagicon|IND}} [[Karman Thandi]]
* {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Miyu Kato (tennis)|Miyu Kato]] / {{flagicon|USA}} [[Asia Muhammad]] → replaced by {{flagicon|LTU}} [[Justina Mikulskytė]] / {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Emily Webley-Smith]]
* {{flagicon|GER}} [[Julia Lohoff]] / {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Astra Sharma]] → replaced by {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Astra Sharma]] / {{flagicon|}} Ekaterina Yashina

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://www.wtatennis.com/tournament/2078/chennai WTA tournament profile]
* [https://www.chennaiopenwta250.com/ Official website]

{{2022 WTA Tour}}

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[[Category:Sports competitions in Chennai]]
[[Category:2020s in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:2022 in Indian women's sport]]
[[Category:September 2022 sports events in India]]

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