| Chennai Open Tennis 2009 is scheduled to take place | | | | Bhupathi and Leander Paes who will return to play with |
| from Monday 5 January to Saturday 10 January, 2009. | | | | their respective partners Mark Knowles from |
| The qualifying rounds will take place on 3rd and 4th | | | | Bahamas and Lukas Dlouhy from Czech Republic. |
| January 2009. The tournament will consist of Singles | | | | Many more well known players like Janko Tipsarevic |
| and Doubles, and the announced singles have already | | | | from Serbia, Marcel Granollers from Spain, Guillermo |
| been made known, with some of the world's top tennis | | | | Garcia-Lopez from Spain and Fabio Fognini from Italy |
| players competing against each other for the $450,000 | | | | will compete as well along with several others. |
| prize money at stake. | | | | These tennis stars will take the centre-stage at 2009 |
| The line-up includes Nikolay Vladimirirovich Davydenko | | | | Chennai Open, bringing you one of the most |
| who is considered as the top ranked male player for | | | | competitive fields ever in the events history. Bryan |
| Russia, 5th in the world and winner of fourteen ATP | | | | brothers Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan who are world |
| singles titles, Stanislas Wawrinka from Switzerland | | | | number one doubles duo and Beijing Olympic bronze |
| who is currently ranked 13th in the world and was a | | | | medallists were also confirmed to play at the Chennai |
| finalist in Rome Masters and is a Doubles gold medalist | | | | Open 2009 tournament, but have withdrawn their |
| from Beijing Olympics and Carlos Moya who was the | | | | participation owing to an injury to Bob. |
| runner up for Costa do Sauipe and Bucharest as well | | | | Out of these, 8 players in the Chennai Open 2009 |
| as the Chennai tennis champion in 2004 and 2005. | | | | tournament are ranked in the worlds top 50 tennis |
| Line-up continues with Rafael Nadal the top seeded | | | | players, which is what will make this event more |
| Spaniard currently ranked as worlds no. 1, Ivo Karlovic | | | | interesting and exciting. Another thing which makes the |
| from Croatia who has won four ATP Singles titles and | | | | upcoming tournament more powerful and impressive is |
| ranked 26th in the world, Ivan Ljubicic from Croatia | | | | that as many as 15 participating players are part of the |
| ranked 38th in the world, Marin Cilic also from Croatia | | | | worlds top 100 players. Tennis lovers from around the |
| who is ranked 23rd in the world, Rainer Schuettler | | | | world as well as in India will once again look forward to |
| from Germany ranked 33rd in the world, Mahesh | | | | some enthralling tennis action. |