The Pole's US Open campaign was cut short after the very first round as she was beaten by 22nd seed Karolina Pliskova 2-6, 6-4, 6-7 (8-10).
Third seed Magda Linette will kick off her 2022 WTA Chennai Open campaign with a match against Japan’s Moyuka Uchijima. Linette was involved in the main draw of the 2022 US Open as an unseeded player. However, the Pole’s Grand Slam campaign was cut short after the very first round as she was beaten by 22nd seed Karolina Pliskova 2-6, 6-4, 6-7 (8-10). Before that, Linette was part of the Tennis in the Land tournament where she was defeated in the quarter-final by Ludmilla Samsonova 4-6, 3-6.
Moyuka Uchijima came close to making it through to the main draw of the 2022 US Open but was unfortunately beaten in her final qualifying match by Elina Avanesyan 5-7, 5-7. The Japanese tennis player was also a part of the ITF USA 36A competition but was defeated in the second round by fifth seed Kamilla Rakhimova.
Magda Linette and Moyuka Uchijima are scheduled to face each other in the round of 32 of the 2022 WTA Chennai Open on Tuesday, September 13. The tournament is scheduled to begin on September 12 and end on September 18.
The 2022 WTA Chennai Open is scheduled to commence on September 12 and go on until September 18 this year. The tournament will have five rounds of play excluding the qualifiers. These are the round of 32, round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals.
Stage of competition | Date |
Round of 32 | September 12-13 |
Round of 16 | September 14-15 |
Quarter-finals | September 16 |
Semi-finals | September 17 |
Final | September 18 |
Player | Seed |
Alison Riske | 1 |
Varvara Gracheva | 2 |
Magda Linette | 3 |
Tatjana Maria | 4 |
Rebecca Peterson | 5 |
Qiang Wang | 6 |
Rebecca Marino | 7 |
Chloe Paquet | 8 |
The Sony Sports Network will telecast the WTA Chennai Open 2022. The competition can also be streamed live on the SonyLIV app.
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