Vaishnavi Adkar earned her first WTA main-draw victory on Tuesday, November 3, coming from a set down to beat Jodie Burrage 3–6, 6–3, 7–5 in the Chennai Open first round.
The Indian wild card recovered after losing the opening set and won the second by the same margin, taking the contest into a deciding set.
According to the WTA’s official match summary, Adkar initially moved ahead 3–1 in the third set. Burrage then turned the set around to lead 5–3, before Adkar won the final four games to complete the comeback.
The result takes Adkar into the second round at the WTA 250 tournament. Tennis.com’s completed scorecard independently confirms the three-set result and lists the match on Center Court.
Jodie Burrage, Adkar’s first-round opponent, in an archive photograph taken on February 6, 2018. This is not a photograph of the November 2026 Chennai match. Photo: “Jodie Burrage” by Peter Menzel / Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0. JPEG re-encoded; no crop or content changes.
