{"id":3601,"date":"2014-03-03T16:38:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=3601"},"modified":"2014-03-03T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T16:38:10","slug":"tennis-andy-murray-signs-for-bangkok-in-premier-tennis-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=3601","title":{"rendered":"Tennis – Andy Murray signs for Bangkok in Premier Tennis League"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Britain\u2019s Andy Murray will represent Bangkok in a four-team contest for the International Premier Tennis League later this year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wimbledon champion Murray will join Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Victoria Azarenka, Daniel Nestor, Carlos Moya,\u00a0Kirsten Flipkens<\/a>\u00a0in the Bangkok team.<\/p>\n

The line-ups were confirmed at the player auction which was held in Dubai with Singapore, Mumbai and Dubai also having teams.<\/p>\n

Novak Djokovic<\/a>\u00a0will lead the Dubai side, with Pete Sampras andRafael Nadal<\/a>\u00a0in the Mumbai team; meanwhile, Andre Agassi andSerena Williams<\/a>\u00a0head the Singapore line-up.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s understood that \u00a314 million in all was spent on the 28 players to be sold in the auction with 70 stars having put their names forward for bidding.<\/p>\n

The players who were left unsold included recent Australian Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka, David Ferrer and Agnieszka Radwanska with team owners limited to price and numbers.<\/p>\n

The competition will consist of 24 matches played between November 28 and December 13 with each encounter made up of a men\u2019s singles, women\u2019s singles, men\u2019s doubles, mixed doubles and legends\u2019 singles \u2013 one set per contest.<\/p>\n

All four teams will compete in one of the cities over a three-day stint before moving on to the next in a roadshow format.<\/p>\n

Each match will be decided according to the total games won by the respective teams with a tie-break coming into the equation if the score reaches 5-5 in a set.<\/p>\n

The fixtures will see teams compete in Singapore (November 28-30), Bangkok (December 2-4), Mumbai (December 7-9) and lastly Dubai (December 11-13).<\/p>\n

The current squads (team owners are still able to make 10 additions)<\/p>\n

Singapore<\/strong>: Tomas Berdych, Andre Agassi, Lleyton Hewitt,\u00a0Serena Williams<\/a>, Bruno Soares, Patrick Rafter, Daniela Hantuchova, Nick Krygios<\/p>\n

Bangkok<\/strong>: Andy Murray, Jo-Wilfred Tsonga, Victoria Azarenka, Daniel Nestor, Carlos Moya,Kirsten Flipkens<\/a><\/p>\n

Mumbai<\/strong>:\u00a0Rafael Nadal<\/a>, Gael Monfils, Pete Sampras, Rohan Bopanna, Ana Ivanovic, Sania Mirza, Fabrice Santoro<\/p>\n

Dubai:<\/strong>\u00a0Novak Djokovic<\/a>, Caroline Wozniacki, Goran Ivanisevic, Janko Tipsarevic, Nenad Zimonic, Malek Jaziri, Martina Hingis<\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0eurosport.yahoo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wimbledon champion Murray will join Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Victoria Azarenka, Daniel Nestor, Carlos Moya,\u00a0Kirsten Flipkens\u00a0in the Bangkok team. The line-ups were confirmed at the player auction which was held in Dubai with Singapore, Mumbai and Dubai also having teams. Novak Djokovic\u00a0will lead the Dubai side, with Pete Sampras andRafael Nadal\u00a0in the Mumbai team; meanwhile, Andre Agassi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,31],"class_list":["post-3601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-news","tag-professor-adei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}