Tennis legend Vijay Amritraj was in Chandigarh on Thursday to promote Champions Tennis league (CTl). At the logo launch of the Punjab Marshalls team, Amritraj joined the 'Bhangra troupes' to perform the traditional Punjabi dance as he was welcomed by the team owner Gurpreet Singh.
"It's been quite some time since I have been here. I was also delighted to watch my son Prakash play here many years ago," he said.
Gurpreet Singh said he has pumped in USD one million as franchise fee. Asked what was the motive in taking up the venture, his wife Kudrat said, "As a child I was always into sports. I was a gymnast, but we did not have good coaches which would have enabled us to take up our passion further. I always had a passion that we need to do something for the budding talent."
"That's when we got the opportunity and we came to know about CTl, we had a word with Amritraj and things got going and now here we are. This is like a dream come true for us."
Amritraj thanked the owners "for taking up the banner of Punjab Marshalls and literally putting Chandigarh on international tennis map"."The region is very important for tennis development in the country. The people enjoy what they are doing. We are expecting great things from the Marshalls in the course of few weeks and years to come," he said.
