Wildcard entrant 21-year-old Karan Singh went down in the opening round of the main draw. Ramkumar Ramanathan fell short in the final qualifying round. The event is being organized by the Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association (MSLTA) in association with the Department of Sports and Youth Services Govt of Maharashtra, PCMC, PMC, and PMDTA in the Tennis Stadium at the Balewadi sports complex. The winner of the last edition’s Maha Open Challenger in Pune, Valentin Vacherot of Monaco, who went as high as 110th rank last year, is currently ranked 201. He picked up from where he left off last year to create the first upset of the tournament as he toppled fourth-seeded Elmer Moller of Denmark, 5-7, 6-2,. 6-4 in just over 2 hours to make it to the second round. Sixth-seeding Ilia Simakin of Russia ousted former winner of. the Mahaopen ATP Tour, Jiri Vesely of Czech Republic, winning 7-5,6-1. Meanwhile, another Russian Petr Bar Biryukov also qualified for themain draw. As did Michael Geerts, also of Belgium, ninth- seeded Masamichi Imamura, and Hiroki Moriya of Japan.
