Magda Linette wins in Chennai and lifts a title again more than two years later

The Polish Magda Linette was proclaimed this Monday champion of the WTA 250 tournament in Chennai in India, on hard surface, at impose in the end to the filipina Janice Tjen, champion in 2025, for 7-5, 1-6 and 4-6 in two hours and 52 minutes, and returned to earn a title more than two years after doing it for the last time in Prague.

The end had to be disputed one day later than expected due to rain and the poor air quality on the previous day, a circumstance that forced the game to be postponed.

On the track, Linette, 34 years old, began the party losing he first set and having to come back in the next two to be able take the win in a duel in which he only gave in two games with his service.

This is the fourth win of the professional career of Magda Linette, 68th in the world, after previously conquering the WTA 250 tournaments in New York (2019), Hua Hin (2020) and Prague (2024). In fact, his last final It was in the Czech city on July 26, 2024.