There is no stopping Stanislas Wawrinka

This does not mean the event is a graveyard of seeds but for the final it is a stat that continues to work. Even this year, it will be so as No 2 seed Kevin Anderson is out of the way of top seed Stanislas Wawrinka before the Open reached the quarter-final stage. The top seed Swiss certainly knows this fact well as he mentioned it on Thursday after his first-round win here. Wawrinka has an amazing ten match winning streak at the Chennai Open starting from 2014 till his semi-final clash against Benoît Paire. He has not dropped a set in his hat-trick mission and his march includes two titles that he won in 2014 and 2015. But the Swiss does not think of the all-important title in Chennai at the moment saying that he has only won one match and he would not think of the title before he reached the final. The last time the top two seeds met in a final in Chennai was in 2005: Paradorn Srichaphan of Thailand vs Carlos Moya of Spain. The year before that it was the same script top seed Moya beating Srichaphan for title. There is also a remarkable stat in the last seven years that twice Rafael Nadal started as the top seed in singles but on both occasions the Spaniard fell short of the title. Mikhail Youzhny of Russia beat him in the final in 2008 and Xavier Malisse packed him off in 2007 in the semifinals. But on current form and in the remaining lot, no one looks capable of stopping Wawrinka.