2015 Champions Tennis League

2015 Champions Tennis League
League	Champions Tennis League
Sport	Team tennis
Duration	23 November – 6 December 2015
Number of teams	6
League champions	Punjab Marshalls
Runners-up	Hyderabad Aces
Season MVP	Martina Hingis

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. 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 Rs. 1 crore, while the runner-up prize was 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

CTL 2015 teams
Team	Location	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

Zone A

Mumbai Tennis Masters

Player
Richard Krajicek
Santiago Giraldo
Flavia Pennetta
Sriram Balaji

Zone B

Nagpur Orangers

Player
Àlex Corretja
Feliciano López
Jelena Janković
Divij Sharan

Raipur Rangers

Player
Thomas Muster
Roberto Bautista Agut
Alizé Cornet
Ramkumar Ramanathan

Hyderabad Aces

Player
Thomas Johansson
Ivo Karlović
Martina Hingis
Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan

Punjab Marshalls

Player
Greg Rusedski
Marcos Baghdatis
Elina Svitolina
Saketh Myneni

V Chennai Warriors

Player
Rainer Schüttler
Fernando Verdasco
Heather Watson
Vishnu Vardhan

Group round

Matches

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

Pos.	Team	MP	W	L	GW	GL	GW	GL	Pts
1	Punjab Marshalls	4	4	0	13	6	88	65	8
2	Raipur Rangers	4	2	2	13	7	81	72	4
3	Mumbai Tennis Masters	4	0	4	4	16	61	93	0

Zone B

Pos.	Team	MP	W	L	GW	GL	GW	GL	Pts
1	Hyderabad Aces	4	3	1	14	6	93	78	6
2	Nagpur Orangers	4	2	2	11	9	85	88	4
3	V Chennai Warriors	4	1	3	5	15	80	92	2

Final

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.

The Tennis Channel broadcast the Champions Tennis League across the USA.

External links

• Champions Tennis League official website