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Venus to play for Bangalore, The oragnisers revealed six teams -- Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai and Chandigarh -- for the league, which will be played from November 17 to 26.
New Delhi: Multiple Grand Slam winner Venus Williams was on Wednesday revealed as one of the players, who will compete in the upcoming Champion Tennis League (CTL) for the Bangalore team while India's top singles player Somdev Devvarman was named in the Chandigarh Franchisee.
The oragnisers revealed six teams -- Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai and Chandigarh -- for the league, which will be played from November 17 to 26.
Somdev's teammate would be Spain's World number five Davis Ferrer and his compatriot Garbine Muguruza (world number 22) along with former British star Greg Rusedsky.
34-year old American tennis star Venus, who has won seven Grand Slam titles, will have former Swede Thomas Enqvist, Spian's Feliciano Lopez and India's Ramkumar Ramanathan in the Bangalore team.
Women world number 11 Jelena Jankovic will spearhead the Delhi side, which also has South African Kevin Anderson, Juan Carlos Ferrero from Spain and India's Sanam Singh.
World number 24 Philipp Kohlschreiber and world number six in women Agnieszka Radwanska will lead the charge of the Pune team, which has Pat Cash as its Legend player part from India's Saketh Myneni.
The Mumbai team features world number 22 Tommy Robredo, 21st ranked Alize Cornet and former Spanish star Sergi Bruguera apart from India's Sriram Balaji.
Russia's Mikhail Youzhny, Swiss star Martina Hingis, Australia's Mark Philippoussis and India's Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan formed the Chennai team.
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