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The Coca-Cola International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) announced that Roger Federer, the current World number two and winner of 17 Grand Slam titles, will make his first ever appearance on court in Singapore, this December when he represents the UAE Royals during this season's IPTL.
Prosperous Dubai came up last in the crowd stakes at the IPTL, with fans few and far between for the final ties of the four-city series last week. Local media in the emirate lamented that lack of enthusiasm in a city where expats flock their numbers each February to back-to-back WTA and ATP events at the centrally-located Aviation Club.
The Micromax Indian Aces, whose team included Roger Federer for a two-match stretch in New Delhi, clinched the first-ever IPTL title on Friday night. Combined with the UAE Royals' 23-21 loss to the last-place Singapore Slammers, the Aces' 28-23 win over the Manila Mavericks was enough to guarantee first place.
There was no doubting that Roger Federer had the Midas touch when it came to the buzz for the IPTL as it touched down in India. From the moment he took the court the crowd were unstoppable as he took to the court in the mixed doubles, singles and men’s doubles and shone in all of them.
Indian tennis fans might have been thrilled to have Roger Federer onside at the weekend for IPTL play in Delhi, but that doesn't mean they were happy with sky-high ticket prices for rather poor seating.
Roger Federer landed in New Delhi early Sunday morning in advance of his participation in the International Premier Tennis League. Federer will contest the last two matches during the India segment of the IPTL for the Micromax India Aces on Saturday and Sunday, set for a packed schedule complete with men's singles, men's doubles, and mixed doubles.
The word around the tennis world is that Roger Federer is being paid a cool $4 million for the briefest of stays in New Delhi to play for the Micromax Indians Aces in the ongoing International Premier Tennis League.
The International Premier Tennis League (IPTL), the inaugural international city-based professional tennis league featuring legendary players such as Roger Federer, Serena Williams, Novak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova, will be available for live viewing via TV and on-line pay-per-view in the United States by Integrated Sports Media beginning November 28th through the conclusion of the season on December 13.
The News Has been broken by Bob Larson news service that Jo - Willie Tsonga is being paid 500 thousand dollars to play in the inaugural IPTL. If Jo is making $$$$$. What's Roger Federer getting ? $$$$$$$$$$$ ? Or Maria Sharapova ? Or Andy Murray ? We will know in time.
The new International Premier Tennis League moves closer by the day and its’ critics grow ever more agitated that the already too short off season will effectively be made even shorter. However Chris Kermode, the ATP World Tour’s executive chairman and president, doesn’t put it top of his current concerns, and said: “It's just very light entertainment.”
Many doubts remain about the long-term prospects of the forthcoming International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) that is scheduled to begin at the end of November but Mahesh Bhupathi, the former ATP World Tour and Indian Davis Cup veteran who is fronting the new venture insists it has all the ingredients to be a great success.
Injured Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the exhibition International Premier Tennis League competition in Asia with his right wrist injury apparently still bothering him. The one-time No. 1 has not played since losing in the Wimbledon fourth round.
The former Indian tennis player Vijay Amritraj says the Champions Tennis League (CTL) he is launching with the All India Tennis Association (AITA) should not be seen as competition for the International Tennis Premier League (ITPL) being launched by Indian doubles player Mahesh Bhupathi.
When you have an even record with "God" on the other side of the net, you know you're doing something right. That's whom Leander Paes was going up against on Thursday night at the BNP Paribas Open--at least according to Rick Leach, a former No. 1 doubles player in the world who now works with Paes on a part-time basis.
I first saw Leander Paes play a tennis match at the 1999 U.S. Open. The Indian Express, featuring Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, dismissed Jan-Michael Gambill and Adam Peterson
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