The stage is ready for one more thrilling season of Professional Tennis League because the fourth version of the match kicked off on December 1 on the RK Khanna Tennis Stadium. A complete of 64 high worldwide and Indian gamers are collaborating on this league, who’re divided into eight groups – Bangalore Challengers, DMG Delhi Crusaders, Guragaon Sapphires, Jodhpur Sankara, Lucknow Aviators, Meerut Stag Babolat Yoddhas, Proveri Supersmashers, and Paramount Proec Tigers.
The Professional Tennis League can be performed throughout two legs over a interval of 4 days between December 1 to December 4. Kicking off the match at a press convention on Thursday, Professional Tennis League Co-Founder Aditya Khanna mentioned, “That is the most important season we’re ever going to have with 64 gamers collaborating in eight totally different groups. We’ve created a novel format, a fast format the place eight gamers can be taking part in 9 matches mixture of males’s singles, males’s doubles, ladies’s singles, combined doubles and junior singles as properly. So, it’ll be a point-based format the place each level will rely.”
He added, ” The league stage the way in which it’ll operate is that the workforce with the utmost variety of factors after the three ties goes to the semi-final and that’s how the order of the league will occur from the primary place to the final place. We’ve gamers of various ages as properly, we’ve all the boys’s professional gamers and the highest ladies’s professional gamers and a few junior gamers in each girls and boys.”
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“We’ve some ex-players as properly collaborating within the match. We’ve the honour of getting Zeeshan Ali again on the courtroom after 20 years. So, that is going to be a fantastic format which goes to be very thrilling. It’s a tennis competition the place the entire Indian tennis will get along with all sides of the nation. It’s a healthful league as the boys’s and girls’s are taking part in collectively and it is really an honour for me to host this match,” concluded Mr. Aditya Khanna.
Ex-Indian tennis star Zeeshan Ali remarked, “I believe the format of PTL is superb and the league system in India is turning into a giant factor which is nice for all of the gamers. It’s excellent for juniors who can come and study from the highest skilled gamers of India throughout the match. I might say it’s like T20 of tennis since you get lots of matches in three hours. So, it’s an thrilling format which is attracting lots of high gamers of the nation.”
Prime Indian tennis stars Ramkumar Ramanathan and Divij Sharan are additionally included among the many 24 Professional Males’s gamers collaborating within the match, who can be taking part in for Bengaluru Bulls. Eight Professional Girls’s gamers may also compete within the match together with tennis star Riya Bhatia.
Divij Sharan acknowledged, “That is the primary time I’m taking part in within the league. It’s in Delhi and I’m right here so, I’m tremendous excited to play in PTL. The format is admittedly thrilling and it’ll be lots of enjoyable taking part in within the match. I believe it provides an opportunity to the junior gamers to play and work together with the senior gamers. We’ve been taking part in within the circuit for thus a few years and have gained lots of expertise. So, the junior gamers can get lots of issues from us when it comes to information and we’re joyful to share our expertise with all of the gamers within the match.”
“PTL goes to be a enjoyable occasion and I’m actually excited to be again right here to play within the match. I’m grateful to the organizers for developing with the fourth version of the match and I’m excited to play in it and present my tennis to the viewers,” commented Ramkumar Ramanathan.
Delhi Garden Tennis Affiliation (DLTA) president Rohit Rajpal additionally felt proud of the fourth version of PTL. “As DLTA, I’m actually joyful that the fourth version of the match is going down and the draw is nearly double what it was the final time. We’ve 64 gamers and I see lots of acquainted Davis Cup gamers right here as properly. So, I believe general it’s nice that the PTL retains rising with each version and especial because of the workforce house owners who maintain supporting the match and serving to the Indian tennis develop in the suitable path,” he concluded.