TPL season 3 released Tennis news

Mumbai: Gujarat Panthers will face Pune Jaguars in the Premier League (TPL) third season opening match as stars such as duel specialist Divij Sharan, Vijay Sundar Prashant and Ukrainian Gujarat Valeyrla Strakhova face Saketh Mynen and Ishaque Iqbal. and the Red Rutuja Bhosle.

Later on, the field will also feature players like Ramkumar Ramanathan, Pranesh Gunnneswaran and Yuki Bhambri, to name a few, who will appear on their own teams.

The third season of the TPL was inaugurated here with team owners, co-owners and the country’s leading male and female tennis players, as well as international female players who promised five days of exciting tennis.

The event was attended by co-owners Leander Paes, Aditi Rao Hydari, Sonali Bendre, Divya Khosla Kumar and Sania Mirza, a mentor of Finecab Hyderabad Strikers. Ace-filmmaker and tennis enthusiast Vishal Bharadwaj was also present. Goran Ivanisevic, a former Wimbledon champion and coach of world number one Novak Djokovic, joined the procedure via video call.

“This is my first year at TPl and I am very excited to be here to mentor the Hyderabad Strikers,” Sania said. Asked how the pandemic has affected athletes around the world, Sania replied, “I can’t speak for everyone, but I know many athletes, myself included, have struggled through this period. There was always this fear of getting sick, traveling. Restrictions on access to events and many other things. That’s why I feel that in addition to physical fitness, focusing on mental health was and still is. “

Paes promised to continue his efforts to make TPL bigger and better and took on the role of anchor while talking to Ivanisevic.

“I was excited to be part of the TPL, but with the new quarantine rules I had to leave it. Next year, even though I should come a week early and quarantine, I promise to be there.” Ivanisevic was told in a statement on Monday.

He said he was indeed honored to be coaching number one in the world. “I think Novak is the best tennis player, and I get to learn something new every day from his vicinity,” said Ivanisevic. Although being a coach at Novak was a very stressful job, Ivanisevic said he fully enjoyed it.

Enhanced TPL 3.0 has six international female players – Samantha Murray Sharan from the UK, ranked 206, Diana Marcinkevica, Latvia, ranked 262, Thailand’s Peangtarn Plipuech, ranked 294, Sabina Sharipova, Uzbekistan, ranked 317, Valeriya, Strakhova. 379, except Sofia Shapattava.

Paes commented. “The Tennis Premier League has grown tremendously since its inception, and I’m very excited about its third season now. We have eight strong teams in the league and we’ve seen encouraging feedback over the last two years, which only promises that this season will be much larger in scale.”