Mumbai: Former World No. 1 and India’s top-ranked doubles player Rohan Bopanna will be in action in the Tennis Premier League (TPL) in December this year. This will be Bopanna’s first outing in the TPL.
Bopanna will join the likes of India’s top-ranked singles player, Sumit Nagal, France’s Hugo Gaston and Elina Avanesyan of Armenia in the Tennis Premier League.
The Tennis Premier competition is a franchise-based competition and matches between two franchises will contain men’s singles, women’s singles, mixed doubles and men’s doubles.
Each match will have 100 points, with 25 points for each category. The squad that achieves 25 points first will be the winner.
Each club will play a total of 500 points (100 points in each match for five matches) in the league round. The top four teams in the points table will qualify for the semifinals and subsequently, the winners will continue to the final.
The TPL will be hosted at the Cricket Club of India in Mumbai, which, throughout the years, has been home to some of India’s most famous tennis tournaments. The 2018 season of the TPL will be the sixth iteration of the franchise-based competition.
Bopanna is one of the most distinguished doubles players on the ATP Tour. He won the Australian Open doubles championship in January 2024, partnering Matthew Edben, and having already won the mixed doubles title at the French Open in 2017.
Ranked sixth in the world, the 44-year-old Bopanna competed in three Olympic Games.
The Bengaluru-based player has won more than 25 championships in his career and is just the fourth Indian after Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza to be rated world no. 1 in tennis.
