V Chennai Warriors
V Chennai Warriors is a tennis team representing the Indian city of Chennai in the Champions Tennis League. The team was initially supposed to take part in the 2014 Champions Tennis League but due to unavoidable circumstances they backed out at the last moment and eventually the Hyderabad Aces went on to replace them in the 2014 edition.[1] On November 14 2015, the V Chennai Warriors franchise was unveiled by Mr.Vijay Amritraj, founder of the Champions Tennis League just 10 days prior to the second season in the presence of the owners of this franchise Mr.Prabhu Deva, a renowned actor/director/producer in India and Dr.Ishari K Ganesh, founder Chairman and Chancellor of the Vels University in Chennai.[2] [3] The players who represented this team in the 2015 season were Rainer Schuettler, Fernando Verdasco, Heather Watson and Vishnu Vardhan.[4] The 2015 tournament began on November 23rd and ended on December 6th with the V Chennai Warriors finishing last in Group B with one win and three losses from four games. Group B also had the likes of Hyderabad Aces and Nagpur Orangers.[5] [6]
Home Stadium
The home stadium of the V Chennai Warriors is the SDAT Tennis Stadium in Nungambakkam, Chennai. This historical stadium is also the venue of India's lone ATP World Tour event, the Chennai Open.
Players
2015 season
References
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Rainer Schuettler
Fernando Verdasco
Heather Watson
Vishnu Vardhan