The tournament which has previously seen Pat Rafter and Stan Wawrinka win it when it was in Chennai will this time be headlined by Benoit Paire.
Paire is number one seed and that is followed by Ricardas Berankis who is someway down in the rankings compared to the Frenchman with 24th compared to 66th in second seed.
Phillipp Kohlschreiber is next at third seed while Stefano Travaglia and Soonwoo Kwon round out the top five.
Home hopes include Prajnesh Gunneswaran, Sumit Nagal and Ramkumar Ramanathan who will all be involved.
MAIN DRAW SINGLES
1 PAIRE, Benoit FRA 24
2 BERANKIS, Ricardas LTU 66
3 KOHLSCHREIBER, Philipp GER 79
4 TRAVAGLIA, Stefano ITA 84
5 KWON, Soonwoo KOR 88
6 KARLOVIC, Ivo CRO 95
7 STEBE, Cedrik-Marcel GER @95
8 CARUSO, Salvatore ITA 96
9 GERASIMOV, Egor BLR 98
10 DUCKWORTH, James AUS 100
11 MAJCHRZAK, Kamil POL 101
12 SUGITA, Yuichi JPN 103
13 VESELY, Jiri CZE 105
14 DANIEL, Taro JPN 110
15 DONSKOY, Evgeny RUS 112
16 FABBIANO, Thomas ITA 114
17 LORENZI, Paolo ITA 115
18 HOANG, Antoine FRA 116
19 GOJOWCZYK, Peter GER 117
20 GUNNESWARAN, Prajnesh IND 124
20 MADEN, Yannick GER 126
21 NAGAL, Sumit IND 130
22 [WC] RAMANATHAN, Ramkumar IND 185
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24 [WC]
25 [Q]
26 [Q]
27 [Q]
28 [Q]