Tjen has been fantastic this season<\/a> and is finally making her breakthrough into the main tour level WTA events. Over the last two years, Tjen, who played NCAA tennis, has compiled a stunning record on the ITF Tour level. In 2024, her record was 39-3, in 2025 it\u2019s 55-8, backed up by a now 9-3 record at the WTA level. This talented Indonesian player was a finalist at the WTA Tournament in Sao Paulo, and now can claim her maiden WTA title in Chennai.<\/p>\nTjen needed three sets in her first two matches, including a second round win over Linda Fruhvirtova. Wild card Mia Pohankova and Lanlana Tararudee were the opponents that she defeated in the quarterfinal and the semifinal. Last month she also claimed a 125 level title in Jinan.<\/p>\n
Birrell is looking to recover her ranking after falling out of the top 100 this season. She needed three sets against Joanna Garland in the semifinal, and also had a win over Donna Vekic this week. Birrell has far more tour level experience and is 16-19 on the season, she has been a bit of a late bloomer on tour, and was a finalist in Osaka last year. Her run this week in Chennai was a burst of form that was unexpected.<\/p>\n
Tjen\u2019s talent and form is evident, this feels like her moment to claim a maiden WTA title. Prediction: Tjen in 2<\/strong><\/p>\nMain Photo Credit: Mike Frey-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final of the WTA Chennai 250 will be contested between Janice Tjen and Kimberly Birrell, which player…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":349772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[171348,171349,10346,10347,62,1464,1474,1475,67,132,68,171350,171351,8358,2484],"class_list":{"0":"post-349771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-janice-tjen","9":"tag-janice-tjen-predictions","10":"tag-kimberly-birrell","11":"tag-kimberly-birrell-predictions","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-tennis-picks","15":"tag-tennis-predictions","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-wta-chennai","20":"tag-wta-chennai-predictions","21":"tag-wta-picks","22":"tag-wta-predictions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115478743193405551","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}