STATOIL MASTERS TENNIS – TEAM ELTON AND TEAM BILLIE JEAN SET FOR ROYAL ALBERT HALL , XAVIER MALISSE REPLACES INJURED GREG RUSEDSKI

Written by: Staff on 28th November 2014

STATOIL MASTERS TENNIS - TEAM ELTON AND TEAM BILLIE JEAN SET FOR ROYAL ALBERT HALL , XAVIER MALISSE REPLACES INJURED GREG RUSEDSKI |

STATOIL MASTERS TENNIS

THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL

ATP CHAMPIONS TOUR

3-7 DECEMBER

LONDON

Billie Jean King and Sir Elton John Announce Royal Albert Hall Teams

With a week to go until the Statoil Masters Tennis at the Royal Albert Hall, Sir Elton John and Billie Jean King have selected their teams for finals day on Sunday 7th December, when a special Mylan World TeamTennis charity match will be held.

The charity match – Mylan WTT Smash Hits presented by Walgreens and AmerisourceBergen – will pit Team Billie Jean against Team Elton, with proceeds from the night going to the Elton John AIDS Foundation. This is the first time the event will be held outside the United States in its 22-year history.

Team Billie Jean will be represented by Kim Clijsters, Tim Henman, Sabine Lisicki and Jamie Murray, who is in for the injured Greg Rusedski. In the ATP Champions Tour draw earlier in the week, the 2002 Wimbledon semi-finalist Xavier Malisse will replace Rusedski.

On Team Elton John are Andy Roddick, John McEnroe, Martina Hingis and Heather Watson.

The match will feature men’s and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles, and mixed doubles.

The order of play is:

Women’s doubles: Hingis/Watson (Team Elton) vs Clijsters/Lisicki (Team Billie Jean)

Men’s doubles: McEnroe/Roddick (Team Elton) vs Henman/Murray (Team Billie Jean)

Women’s singles: Watson (Team Elton) vs Lisicki (Team Billie Jean)

Mixed doubles: McEnroe/Hingis (Team Elton) vs Murray/Clijsters (Team Billie Jean)

Men’s singles: Roddick (Team Elton) vs Henman (Team Billie Jean)

To view the full order of play for the week, please go to http://www.statoilmasterstennis.com/schedule/

The Statoil Masters, an IMG-owned and staged event which is now in its 18th year, runs from 3-7 December. It features Roddick, Henman, Fernando Gonzalez, Thomas Enqvist, Xavier Malisse and Sergi Bruguera in an ATP Champions Tour event, with McEnroe taking on Pat Cash and Henri Leconte in exhibition matches. Mansour Bahrami, Jamie Murray, and former British Davis Cup player Ross Hutchins are all part of the doubles field.

The Statoil Masters Tennis has enjoyed record ticket-sales so far in 2014 and the last remaining tickets are still available, with prices from £18.50 per person, at http://www.statoilmasterstennis.com/tickets/ or by calling the Royal Albert Hall box office on: +44 (0) 20 7070 4404.

Hospitality packages are also available via www.statoilmasterstennis.com/hospitality or by calling +44 (0) 20 8233 5854.

Revised Order of play*

ATP CHAMPIONS TOUR SINGLES

Group A

Tim Henman

Fernando Gonzalez

Thomas Enqvist

Group B

Andy Roddick

Xavier Malisse

Sergi Bruguera

Wednesday 3rd December

At 1.30pm

Tim Henman vs. Thomas Enqvist

Ferreira/Gonzalez v Malisse/Murray

At 7.30pm

Special Olympics Exhibition

Xavier Malisse vs. Sergi Bruguera

Bahrami/Castle v Cash/McNamara

Thursday 4th December

At 1.30pm

Fernando Gonzalez vs. Thomas Enqvist

Murray/Hutchins v Bruguera/Malisse

At 7.30pm

Wheelchair Tennis Exhibition

John McEnroe vs. Pat Cash

Bahrami/Castle v McNamara/Leconte

Friday 5th December

At 1.30pm

Andy Roddick vs. Sergi Bruguera

Bahrami/Ferreira v Enqvist/McNamara

At 7.30pm

John McEnroe vs. Henri Leconte

Henman/Roddick v Murray/Hutchins

Saturday 6th December

At 1.30pm

Tim Henman vs. Fernando Gonzalez

Bahrami/McEnroe v Bruguera/McNamara

At 7.30pm

Andy Roddick vs. Xavier Malisse

Cash/Castle v Ferreira/Leconte

Sunday 7th December

At 11.45am

ATP Champions Tour Final

Bahrami/Castle v McNamara/Ferreira

At 6pm

Mylan World TeamTennis Smash Hits

Team Elton – Andy Roddick, John McEnroe, Martina Hingis and Heather Watson

vs.

Team Billie Jean – Kim Clijsters, Tim Henman, Sabine Lisicki and Jamie Murray

* Please note that the order of play is subject to change.

About Statoil (UK) Ltd

Statoil is an international energy company with operations in 36 countries. Building on 40 years of experience from oil and gas production on the Norwegian continental shelf, we are committed to accommodating the world’s energy needs in a responsible manner, applying technology and creating innovative business solutions. We are headquartered in Stavanger, Norway with approx. 23,000 employees worldwide, and are listed on the New York and Oslo stock exchanges. More information is available at www.Statoil.com.

About Elton John AIDS Foundation UK (EJAF)

At the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) we believe that AIDS can be beaten. We act on that belief by raising funds for effective programs and policies, and also by speaking out with honesty and compassion about the realities of people’s lives. Sir Elton John created EJAF over twenty years ago, first in the United States in 1992 and then in the United Kingdom in 1993. The U.S. foundation focuses its efforts on programs in the United States, the Americas, and the Caribbean, while the U.K. foundation funds HIV-related work in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Through hard work and with the help of our network of kind, amazing, creative, and generous friends and supporters, the two foundations together have raised more than £190m ($300) million over the past two decades to combat stigma, prevent infections, provide treatment and services, and motivate governments to end AIDS. Over the past year alone, the UK Foundation has provided support for over 2.4m people to get an HIV test and a further 185,000 very vulnerable people living with HIV to access lifesaving care.

About Mylan:

Mylan is a global pharmaceutical company committed to setting new standards in health care. Working together around the world to provide 7 billion people access to high quality medicine, we innovate to satisfy unmet needs; make reliability and service excellence a habit; do what’s right, not what’s easy; and impact the future through passionate global leadership. We offer a growing portfolio of more than 1,300 generic pharmaceuticals and several brand medications. In addition, we offer a wide range of antiretroviral therapies, upon which approximately 40% of HIV/AIDS patients in developing countries depend. We also operate one of the largest active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturers and currently market products in approximately 140 countries and territories. Our workforce of more than 20,000 people .

About Mylan World TeamTennis (WTT):

Mylan World TeamTennis showcases both the best in professional and recreational team tennis with the innovative team format .The 40th season of Mylan WTT runs July 12-August 2.

Topics: Billie Jean King, Elton John, Greg Rusedski, Royal Albert Hall, Statoil Masters Tennis, Tennis, Xavier Malisse

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