Yet Another Sports league in India; this time it is Champions Tennis League. Sporting Revolution continues in India, after just 6-7 months of announcement of International Premier Tennis League, we have another Tennis league in India, CTL 2014, brain-child of former Indian Tennis Star Vijay Amritraj. Before this Mahesh Bhupati-backed ITPL was announced earlier this year in February.
India is already hosting number of private sports leagues in hockey, cricket, badminton, kabaddi and recently football. It started-off with Hockey back in 2005, with launch of Premier Hockey League [PHL]. The schedules for both the tennis leagues have been announced. We are flashing light upon both the leagues today.
International Premier Tennis League [IPTL]
It was announced by Mahesh Bhupathi in Feb 2014, bringing together greats of the game. The tournament is based in 4 Asian cities and will be played on round robin basis. IPTL matches are to be hosted by Delhi [India], Singapore, Manilla [Philippines], Dubai [United Arab Emirates]. Initially Bangkok and Mumbai Franchise were there, which were replaced by Manilla and Delhi respectively due to lack of clarity over the business model progress. Indian broadcaster Star Sports has picked up the rights to telecast the inaugural IPTL.
Format of IPTL
IPTL spends nearly $24 million on inaugural teams. Players auction took place in Dubai on March 2, 2014. Four teams consisting of up to ten players will compete in 24
best-of-five round robin matches which will take place across the four
cities between November 28 and December 13, consisting of a set each for
men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, mixed double.
IPTL Teams 2014
- Delhi : Roger Federer [replaced injured Rafael Nadal], Ana Ivanovic, Gael Monfils, Sania Mirza, Rohan Bopanna, Pete Sampras, Fabrice Santoro
- Dubai : Novak Djokovic, Caroline Wozniacki, Janko Tipsarevic, Malek Jaziri, Nenad Zimonic, Goran Ivanisevic, Martina Hingis
- Bangkok : Andy Murray, Jo-Wilfred Tsonga, Victoria Azarenka, Daniel Nestor, Kirsten Flipkens, Carlos Moya
- Singapore : Tomas Berdych, Serena Williams, Andre Agassi, Lleyton Hewitt, Daniela Hantuchova, Bruno Soares, Patrick Rafter, Nick Krygios.
IPTL 2014 Schedule
- 28 - 30 November 2014 :::: Philippines
- 02 - 04 December 2014 :::: Singapore
- 06 - 08 December 2014 :::: India
- 11 - 13 December 2014 :::: Dubai
Date Time Match 28 November 2014 4:00 pm India vs Singapore 28 November 2014 7:30 pm Manila vs UAE 29 November 2014 4:00 pm UAE vs Singapore 29 November 2014 7:30 pm Manila vs India 30 November 2014 4:00 pm UAE vs India 30 November 2014 7:30 pm Manila vs Singapore 2 December 2014 4:00 pm UAE vs India 2 December 2014 7:30 pm Manila vs Singapore 3 December 2014 4:00 pm Manila vs UAE 3 December 2014 7:30 pm India vs Singapore 4 December 2014 4:00 pm Manila vs India 4 December 2014 7:30 pm UAE vs Singapore 6 December 2014 4:00 pm yet to be announced 6 December 2014 7:30 pm yet to be announced 7 December 2014 4:00 pm yet to be announced 7 December 2014 7:30 pm yet to be announced 8 December 2014 4:00 pm yet to be announced 8 December 2014 7:30 pm yet to be announced 11 December 2014 4:00 pm India vs Singapore 11 December 2014 7:30 pm Manila vs UAE 12 December 2014 4:00 pm Manila vs Singapore 13 December 2014 7:30 pm UAE vs India 13 December 2014 4:00 pm Manila vs India 13 December 2014 7:30 pm UAE vs Singapore
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Champions Tennis League 2014 [CTL]
Champions Tennis League 2014 is going to held from 17 - 26 November 2014, across six Indian cities : Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Pune, Bangalore & Chandigarh. The 10 day tournament will be aired live on Sony SIX.
Format of CTL 2014
CTL will have 13 matches played over the 10-day period, with the teams structured into two groups, each having three teams, where all teams play each other. Each
team will play the other two teams on a home and away basis to decide
the group standings. The top team of each group will then face each
other in the final. The teams with the highest number of matches won in their respective group, will play each other in the grand finale to win prize money of Rs 1 crore. The runner-up will get Rs 50 lakh.
The player draft was conducted without any auction with each team picking four players from a pool of 24. The player pool consisted of six legends, six international men, six international women and six Indians with only the Mumbai franchise missing the proceedings.
The player draft was conducted without any auction with each team picking four players from a pool of 24. The player pool consisted of six legends, six international men, six international women and six Indians with only the Mumbai franchise missing the proceedings.
CTL 2014 Teams
CTL 2014 Schedule
17 Nov Delhi v Punjab Delhi 17 Nov Chennai v B'lore Chennai 18 Nov Delhi v Mumbai Chennai 18 Nov Chennai v Pune Delhi 20 Nov B'lore v Pune Bangalore 20 Nov Punjab v Mumbai Chandigarh 21 Nov Delhi v Punjab Chandigarh 21 Nov Chennai v B'lore Bangalore 23 Nov Pune v Chennai Pune 23 Nov Mumbai v Delhi Mumbai 24 Nov Mumbai v Punjab Mumbai 24 Nov B'lore v Pune Pune 26 Nov Final TBD
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