Editing 2015 Champions Tennis League

{{Infobox sports season
| title = 2015 [[Champions Tennis League]]
| league = [[Champions Tennis League]]
| sport = [[Team tennis]]
| duration = 23 November – 6 December 2015
| no_of_teams = 6
| attendance = 
| TV =
| league_champs = [[Punjab Marshalls]]
| league_champ_name = 
| second_place = [[Hyderabad Aces]] 
| MVP = [[Martina Hingis]]
| MVP_link = 
| seasonslist = 
| seasonslistnames = CTL
| prevseason_link = 2014 Champions Tennis League
| prevseason_year = 2014
| altseason_link = 
| altseason_year = 
| nextseason_link =
| nextseason_year =
}}

The '''2015 Champions Tennis League''' was the second edition of the [[Champions Tennis League]].

==Format==
The 2015 edition of CTL was announced by [[Vijay Amritraj]] on September 23, 2015, at a press conference in Mumbai.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/vijay-amritraj-promoted-ctl-season-2-to-start-nov-23-115092301028_1.html | title=Champions Tennis League season 2 from November 23 | date=24 September 2015}}</ref> The press conference also saw the draft of the players into each team. In 2015, CTL featured six city based teams across India and saw 13 matches played over a 2-week period between November 23 and December 6. The winners' prize money was [[Indian rupee|Rs.]] 1 [[crore]], while the runner-up prize was [[Indian rupee|Rs.]] 50 [[lakhs]].

Each tie will consist of 5 sets with each set being considered as a match. Unlike the 2014 edition, the winner of a match was the player/doubles team that wins 5 games, not 6. The winner of the tie was the team that wins the highest number of games across all 5 sets.

==Teams==
	
{| class="wikitable sortable" text-align:left"
|-
! colspan="7"|CTL 2015 teams
|-
! width=200| Team
! width=200|Location
! width=300|Stadium
|-
| [[Mumbai Tennis Masters]]
| [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]]
| [[MSLTA Stadium]]
|-
| [[Hyderabad Aces]]
| [[Hyderabad]], [[Telangana]]
| [[Fateh Maidan]]
|-
| [[V Chennai Warriors]]
| [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]]
| [[SDAT Tennis Stadium]]
|-
| [[Nagpur Orangers ]]
| [[Nagpur]], [[Maharashtra]]
| [[Nagpur District Hard Court Tennis Association]]
|-
| [[Raipur Rangers]]
| [[Raipur]], [[Chhattisgarh]]
| [[Balbir Singh Juneja Indoor Stadium]]
|-
| [[Punjab Marshalls]]
| [[Chandigarh]]
| [[CLTA Tennis Stadium]]
|}

==Players==
	 
<u>Zone A</u>
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
;Mumbai Tennis Masters

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Player
|-
| {{flagicon|NED}} [[Richard Krajicek]]
|-
| {{flagicon|COL}} [[Santiago Giraldo]]
|-
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Flavia Pennetta]]
|-
| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Sriram Balaji]]
|}

<u>Zone B</u>
; Nagpur Orangers

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Player
|-
| {{flagicon|ESP}} [[Àlex Corretja]]
|-
| {{flagicon|ESP}} [[Feliciano López]]
|-
| {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Jelena Janković]]
|-
| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Divij Sharan]]
|}

;Raipur Rangers

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Player
|-
| {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Thomas Muster]]
|-
| {{flagicon|ESP}} [[Roberto Bautista Agut]]
|-
| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Alizé Cornet]]
|-
| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Ramkumar Ramanathan]]
|}


;Hyderabad Aces

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Player
|-
| {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Thomas Johansson]]
|-
| {{flagicon|CRO}} [[Ivo Karlović]]
|-
| {{flagicon|SUI}} [[Martina Hingis]]
|-
| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan]]
|}

;Punjab Marshalls

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Player
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Greg Rusedski]]
|-
| {{flagicon|CYP}} [[Marcos Baghdatis]]
|-
| {{flagicon|UKR}} [[Elina Svitolina]]
|-
| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Saketh Myneni]]
|}


;V Chennai Warriors

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Player
|-
| {{flagicon|GER}} [[Rainer Schüttler]]
|-
| {{flagicon|ESP}} [[Fernando Verdasco]]
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Heather Watson]]
|-
| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Vishnu Vardhan]]
|}
{{div col end}}

==Group round==

===Matches===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Date !! Zone !! Fixture !! Score !! Venue 
|-
| 23 November || A || [[Mumbai Tennis Masters]] '''v''' [[Punjab Marshalls]] || 19–21 || [[MSLTA Stadium]], [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]] 
|-
| 24 November || A || [[Mumbai Tennis Masters]] '''v''' [[Raipur Rangers]] || 14–23 || [[MSLTA Stadium]], [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]]
|-
| 25 November || B || [[V Chennai Warriors]] '''v''' [[Hyderabad Aces]] || 16–25 || [[SDAT Tennis Stadium]], [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]]
|-
| 26 November || B || [[V Chennai Warriors]] '''v''' [[Nagpur Orangers]] || 23–24 || [[SDAT Tennis Stadium]], [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]]
|-
| 27 November || A || [[Punjab Marshalls]] '''v''' [[Raipur Rangers]] || 23–15 || [[CLTA Tennis Stadium]], [[Chandigarh]]
|-
| 28 November || A || [[Punjab Marshalls]] '''v''' [[Mumbai Tennis Masters]] || 24–13 || [[CLTA Tennis Stadium]], [[Chandigarh]]
|-
| 29 November || B || [[Hyderabad Aces]] '''v''' [[Nagpur Orangers]] || 20–22 || [[Fateh Maidan]], [[Hyderabad]], [[Telangana]]
|-
| 30 November || B || [[Hyderabad Aces]] '''v''' [[V Chennai Warriors]] || 25–19 || [[Fateh Maidan]], [[Hyderabad]], [[Telangana]]
|-
| 1 December || A || [[Raipur Rangers]] '''v''' [[Mumbai Tennis Masters]] || 25–16 || [[Balbir Singh Juneja Indoor Stadium]], [[Raipur]]
|-
| 2 December || A || [[Raipur Rangers]] '''v''' [[Punjab Marshalls]] || 18–20 || [[Balbir Singh Juneja Indoor Stadium]], [[Raipur]]
|-
| 3 December || B || [[Nagpur Orangers]] '''v''' [[V Chennai Warriors]] || 18–22 || [[Nagpur District Hard Court Tennis Association]], [[Nagpur]]
|-
| 4 December || B || [[Nagpur Orangers]] '''v''' [[Hyderabad Aces]] || 21–23 || [[Nagpur District Hard Court Tennis Association]], [[Nagpur]]
|}

===Standings===

;Zone A
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"
|-
! style="width:25px" | {{abbr|Pos.|Position}}
! style="width:150px" | Team
! style="width:25px" | {{abbr|MP|Matches played}}
! style="width:25px" | {{abbr|W|Matches won (2 pts)}}
! style="width:25px" | {{abbr|L|Matches lost (0 pts)}}
! style="width:25px" | {{abbr|GW|Sets won}}
! style="width:25px" | {{abbr|GL|Sets lost}}
! style="width:25px" | {{abbr|GW|Games won}}
! style="width:25px" | {{abbr|GL|Games lost}}
! style="width:25px" | {{abbr|Pts|Points}}
|-bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 1
| style="text-align: left" | [[Punjab Marshalls]]
| 4
| 4
| 0
| 13
| 6
| 88
| 65
| 8
|-
| 2
| style="text-align: left" | [[Raipur Rangers]]
| 4
| 2
| 2
| 13
| 7
| 81
| 72
| 4
|-
| 3
| style="text-align: left" | [[Mumbai Tennis Masters]]
| 4
| 0
| 4
| 4
| 16
| 61
| 93
| 0
|}

;Zone B
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"
|-
! style="width:25px" | {{abbr|Pos.|Position}}
! style="width:150px" | Team
! style="width:25px" | {{abbr|MP|Matches played}}
! style="width:25px" | {{abbr|W|Matches won (2 pts)}}
! style="width:25px" | {{abbr|L|Matches lost (0 pts)}}
! style="width:25px" | {{abbr|GW|Sets won}}
! style="width:25px" | {{abbr|GL|Sets lost}}
! style="width:25px" | {{abbr|GW|Games won}}
! style="width:25px" | {{abbr|GL|Games lost}}
! style="width:25px" | {{abbr|Pts|Points}}
|-bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 1
| style="text-align: left" | [[Hyderabad Aces]]
| 4
| 3
| 1
| 14
| 6
| 93
| 78
| 6
|-
| 2
| style="text-align: left" | [[Nagpur Orangers]]
| 4
| 2
| 2
| 11
| 9
| 85
| 88
| 4
|-
| 3
| style="text-align: left" | [[V Chennai Warriors]]
| 4
| 1
| 3
| 5
| 15
| 80
| 92
| 2
|}

==Final==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Date !! Fixture !! Score !! Venue 
|-
| 6 December || [[Punjab Marshalls]] '''v''' [[Hyderabad Aces]] || 22–21 || [[Fateh Maidan]], [[Hyderabad]], [[Telangana]]
|}

==Broadcasting rights==
In India, all Champions Tennis League matches broadcast live on [[Sony SIX HD]] and [[Sony SIX]] who has the exclusive broadcasting rights for the event in the [[Indian subcontinent]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://sportsrediscovered.com/27913/vijay-amritraj-announces-champions-tennis-league-season-2 | title=Amritraj Announces Champions Tennis League Season 2 | date=25 September 2015}}</ref> 

The [[Tennis Channel]] broadcast the Champions Tennis League across the USA.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://zeenews.india.com/sports/Tennis/champions-tennis-league-ties-up-with-tennis-channel-for-broadcasting-in-usa_1485094.html | title= USA broadcast | date=15 October 2014}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20151124050331/http://www.championstennisleague.in/ Champions Tennis League official website]

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