Prime 12 Group have partnered with ATP and IMG to launch an thrilling new collection of workforce competitors as a part of the ATP Champions Tour. The Legends Group Cup – ATP Champions Tour will pit two groups of tennis legends towards one another throughout three action-packed, aggressive three-day tournaments, with the primary occasion set to happen in Pula-Istria, Croatia from 1-3 August.
Eight-time Grand Slam winner Ivan Lendl and Wimbledon Champion Pat Cash have been appointed as captains of the 2 five-player groups that may face off on the three tournaments hosted in unique locations internationally.
Lendl and Money have already made spectators dream and transfer numerous instances and this event would be the final battle between these two legendary athletes. Alongside the non-playing captains, the primary gamers to be introduced for the collection are two-time doubles Grand Slam champion Radek Stepanek, former World No. 2 Tommy Haas, and former World No. 4 Tomas Berdych.
The Legends Group Cup – ATP Champions Tour will announce the extra seven celebrity gamers, all ranked within the Prime 20 of the Pepperstone ATP Rankings, over the approaching weeks. A workforce draft is ready to happen through the UK’s well-known grass-court season, on the Giorgio Armani Tennis Basic’s ATP Champions Tour occasion at London’s Hurlingham Membership. There, workforce captains Lendl and Money will draft the complete lineup of gamers into their respective groups, which they are going to go on to symbolize for the season.
For the primary time within the tennis world, The Legends Group Cup – ATP Champions Tour can be performed in spectacular venues at unique locations for this one-of-a-kind collection of occasions. The primary location is Pula- Istria, Croatia, on the breathtaking Amphitheater, the second and grand finale websites can be revealed within the weeks main as much as the primary occasion.
Every event day will encompass two singles and one doubles match, with the workforce with probably the most factors on the finish of the three days being topped the winners. The groups can even play to turn into the collection champions, which can be awarded on the finish of the third event in November.
Zeljko Franulovic, the Event Director for the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters for the previous 17 years, will function Event Director for Legends Group Cup – ATP Champions Tour from 1st July.
Marten Hedlund, President and CEO of Prime 12 Group and Founding father of the Legends Group Cup – ATP Champions Tour, stated: “Legends Group Cup – ATP Champions Tour is a chance for the gamers who nonetheless have the starvation and the drive to maintain enjoying on the very high of their recreation. Our purpose is to create a brand new thrilling collection of competitors, by attracting gamers and viewers which can be actually obsessed with tennis. Iconic gamers enjoying in spectacular iconic venues is an exhilarating idea”.
Ross Hutchins, ATP Chief Tour Officer, stated: “The ATP Champions Tour performs an necessary function in celebrating our sport’s biggest icons at occasions all around the globe. We’re delighted to welcome the Legends Group Cup onto the calendar this season and for followers to expertise Champions Tour tennis in an thrilling new format.”
Nikhil Waugh, Tennis Occasion Director at IMG, the corporate that operates the ATP Champions Tour, added: “The Legends Group Cup and its distinctive workforce format with Ivan Lendl and Pat Cash, two greats of the sport, as captains guarantees to inject the ATP Champions Tour with renewed life and we’re excited to work collectively to develop this collection. The usual of tennis and aggressive drive of the gamers on the Legends Group Cup can be an amazing asset and we will’t wait to see the motion unfold.”
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