14 time Grand Slam champion and an Olympic gold medal winner Rafael Nadal will make his debut in the International Premier Tennis League and he will lead the Micromax Indian aces who are the defending champions. The tournament begins on December 2 and will take place till December 20th.
The five teams which are part of the IPTL are Indian Aces, Singapore Slammers, Japan Warriors, UAE Warriors, Philippine Mavericks. The tournament will begin in Japan and conclude in Singapore. Two of India’s highly successful doubles stars — women’s World No.1 Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna. Frenchman Gael Monfils, Pole Agnieszka Radwanska, Frenchman Fabrice Santoro, Croat Ivan Dodig will also be part of the Indian aces team
However, the much anticipated clash between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal takes place at Delhi on December 12th and no one could ask for a better mouth watering clash than this.
“Season one brought some of the world’s biggest tennis stars to cities in Asia for the very first time in an exciting new format. The reception shown by fans was a revelation. This year the event will be bigger,” IPTL founder Mahesh Bhupathi said.
“We have added a big market in Japan and with both Nadal and Nishikori playing, fans will be in for a thrilling three weeks. Indian sports lovers have a lot to look forward to in Delhi from December 10 to 12.”
Tickets for the India leg go on sale from August 2 on ‘Book My Show’ and will be available at an exciting early bird discount for a limited duration. The second edition will start in Japan (December 2-4) and then proceed to Philippines (December 6-8), India (December 10-12), Dubai (December 14-16) and Singapore (December 18-20).