Indian tennis legend Vijay Amritraj has launched The Champions Tennis League (CTL) with a pan India tennis tournament featuring IPL style playoffs between six franchisees.

Conceptualised to promote the passion for tennis and inculcate a love for the sport, the CTL holds the promise of taking tennis in India to new levels of awareness and popularity.

Opening feature In its launch avatar, CTL will feature six city based teams across India. CTL will see 13 matches played over a ten day period from November 17-26.

The teams will be structured into two groups, each having three teams, where all teams play each other in a home and away format. The team with the highest number of games won in their respective group will play each other in the grand finale to win prize money of ₹1 crore. The runner-up will win ₹50 lakh.

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