Last year's winner in the individual was Milos Raonic , who took part in the tournament in Brisbane this year and was eliminated there in the round of 16. This year, the number two seeded Serb Janko Tipsarević and the Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut made it into the final. After losing the first set, the Serb was able to turn the game around and ultimately won clearly 3: 6, 6: 1 and 6: 3 and thus secured his quarter of an individual title on the ATP Tour. The French-speaking duo, consisting of the French Benoît Paire and the Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka , won doubles this year . They clearly won the final against the German duo Andre Begemann and Martin Emmrich in two sets with 6: 2 and 6: 1. For the duo it was the first joint title on the ATP Tour.
The field of participants in the single competition consisted of 28 players, that of the doubles competition consisted of 16 pairs. The four top seeded players each received a bye into the second round.
The qualification for the Aircel Chennai Open 2013 took place from December 29th to 31st, 2012. Four qualifying places were played, which entitle them to participate in the main draw of the tournament.
At the Aircel Chennai Open 2013 the following prize money and world ranking points were paid out or credited for reaching the respective round. Players entering the main draw from qualification received the specified qualification points in addition to those for reaching the respective round. Otherwise the amounts are not to be understood as cumulative. The amounts for the double competition were per player.
Milos Raonic
Benoît Paire Stanislas Wawrinka
Dudi Sela
Ruben Bemelmans
Cedrik-Marcel Stebe
Rajeev Ram
T. Berdych
B. Kavčič
R. Bautista Agut
Y.-h. Lu
M. Čilić
S. Stachowskyj
F. Cipolla
R. Haase
J. Sousa
G. Soeda
J. Donskoi
R. Klaasen N. Monroe
J. Delgado K. Skupski
S. Ratiwatana S. Ratiwatana