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India’s Top Players To Battle For Honours In Taekwondo Premier League

India’s top players will battle for honors and glory in the inaugural Taekwondo Premier League (TPL) which gets underway here on Saturday.

India’s no.1 player Prithviraj Chauhan, who has won several medals at the international stage, and no. 2 Shivan Shetty will spearhead the field. “I am hopeful of taking my team (Maharashtra Avengers) deep into the league. We are all very excited and are looking forward to the competition,” Chauhan said.

India no. 3 Nitish Bharadwaj (Lucknow Nawabs) and Asian Championship bronze medalist Naveen Sandhu (Rajasthan Rebels) will be among the other attractions. The TPL founders and team owners met a special delegation from World Taekwondo, who have arrived here for the league.

The delegation was led by Grandmaster Jun Lee, a nine-time Dan Black Belt, the highest achievement in the sport. In the first edition, 12 teams will fight it out for our honors.

Each team boasts of a mentor, a coach, and five players, including two substitutes. In all, 19 matches will be played before the champions are crowned in the 58.1 kg-67.9 kg category.

The matches will be played in a round-robin format and two teams from each group will advance to the quarterfinals, followed by semifinals and final. Each match will be played in the best-of-five format and will have five rounds of 90 seconds each in which three players can compete. 

Source PTI

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