The World Tennis League is back for the fourth edition. It will be held from December 17 to Dec. 20. This time around, the mixed-gender event, featuring Nick Kyrgios, Paula Badosa, and Daniil Medvedev, will be held in India, with the SM Krishna Tennis Stadium in Bengaluru being the venue for the high-profile event.
Format of The World Tennis League
The event consists of four teams, each with four players. Each team will play against all the other three teams in a single round-robin format. Each tie will consist of four matches. Each match will be a single-set match, including a men’s and women’s singles match, along with two doubles matches, which will be decided (Whether men’s, women’s, or mixed) by the team winning the toss.
Teams will receive one point for each game won in the sets, and the team winning the most combined games will win the tie. However, there is a special condition that stipulates that if the team trailing in the overall score wins the fourth set, then the tie will go to overtime, allowing the losing team to level the score. However, the leading team needs to win only one game in overtime to finish the tie.
In case overtime ends with scores tied, there will be a 10-point tiebreaker to decide the winners, who will get two extra points for winning the tiebreak.
Teams And Lineup, Featuring Nick Kyrgios, Paula Badosa, and Daniil Medvedev
The four teams competing this year are Aussie Mavericks Kites, Game Changers Falcons, VB Realty Hawks, and AOS Eagles.
Kites is the only team that has yet to win the World Tennis League, with two runner-up finishes in 2022 and 2023. This year, the quartet includes Nick Kyrgios, Marta Kostyuk, Dhakshineswar Suresh, and Ankita Raina.
The defending champions, the Falcons, have fielded a four-player team, including Daniil Medvedev, the highest-ranked player in the event, Magda Linette, Indian Doubles legend Rohan Bopanna, and Sahaja Yamalapalli.
Hawks were the champions in the inaugural season of the World Tennis League. This year, they will be competing as a team consisting of Denis Shapovalov, Elina Svitolina, Yuki Bhambri, and Maaya Rajeshwaran.
Finally, the 2023 champions, the Eagles, will have a team consisting of Gaël Monfils, Paula Badosa, Sumit Nagal, and Shrivalli Bhamidipati.
 Schedule For the World Tennis League
The event will begin on Dec. 17 at 3:00 PM local time, with the final set to take place on Dec. 20. The following is the day-by-day schedule for the event.
Dec. 17- Hawks vs Kites
Dec. 17- Falcons vs Eagles
Dec. 18- Eagles vs Kites
Dec. 18- Falcons vs Hawks
Dec. 19- Eagles vs Hawks
Dec. 19- Falcons vs Kites
Dec. 20- Final
