CCI and Tata Group present the Tata Tennis Legends Tournament
May 2, 2001

Tennis superstars Bjorn Borg, Vijay Amritraj, Guillermo Vilas, Henri Leconte, John Lloyd, Mansour Bahrami, Anand Amritraj and Ross Case will be seen in action at the Tata Tennis Legends Tournament starting tomorrow. The tournament has been organised by the Cricket Club of India (CCI) with the Tata Group as the title sponsors. It will be played at the CCI Tennis Courts from May 3 to 6, 2001.

The tournament will be held at the CCI's newly-resurfaced synthetic courts. The matches will start at 6 pm and will be played under floodlights. The players will vie for both singles and doubles titles. Starting tomorrow, some exclusive matches have been planned between the ‘Legends’ and special corporate invitees. A 'Tennis Clinic' will also be held on May 4, 2001, for children from the club and the Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association (MSLTA).

The Cricket Club of India is an all-sport complex with modern playing facilities which can match the best available in India. A leading institute of its kind in the state,CCI has been in existence for over 60 years and has organised several international events at its premises. Besides cricket, the world’s top-ranked players have figured in squash, billiards/snooker, tennis and badminton tournaments at the club in the recent past. 

The Tata Group is India’s best-known conglomerate in the private sector with a turnover nudging US $ 8.4 billion (1.9% of India’s GDP). Long known for its adherence to business ethics, it is India’s most respected private business group. With 235,000 employees in 80 operating companies, it is also India’s largest employer in the private sector. The group has consolidated its companies under seven business sectors - materials, energy, chemicals, engineering, communications and information systems, consumer products and services, and the scale of its operations has become increasingly global.