Allow professional tennis to take you along and experience the highs that the players feel participating in the WTA Sony Ericsson Championships at Doha and the ATP Masters Cup at Shanghai!
A surreal experience – where you get to own a world class team of professional tennis players from across the globe – be it Jankovic or Federer they’d all play for you – you’ll earn points and maybe win prizes if they play well! It’s WIN WIN for you!
The advantage being this incredible opportunity to have a completely enjoyable experience comes totally FREE and is open to all. All you need to do is register with us.
Aim of the Game:
Before we head further let us first understand the aim of the game.
Fantasy Masters Series 2008 will be played between 4th and 16th November 2008. The game is very similar to the Fantasy Davidoff Swiss Indoors and the Fantasy Kremlin Cup 2008 you’ve played with us, however you’ll feel the special zing that the Fantasy Masters Series holds.
The aim of the game is to select players - from amongst the top professional tennis players participating in the tournament on IFT – who can score the most for you
As explained in detail below, players that you select in your fantasy team score points for you based on their performance in real matches. As the game progresses, you accumulate more and more points. The teams that win the most points stand to win fabulous prizes!
Register to Play:
Get on court! All you have to do is to register yourself by providing some information about yourself. As soon as you do that, you are all set for an experience of a lifetime.
You get to name your team. And if you want, you can give it your own slogan and a description too. Your team will even get its own page where others can come and view your team's performance. At the end of each match day, the scores for your players and team will be updated within a short time. Ranks for top 100 teams will also be displayed on the website.
So just sign up and get swayed by the Top-spin… watching the WTA Sony Ericsson Championships and the ATP Masters Cup is going to be a lot more thrilling!
Get going - Create your Fantasy TENNIS Team!
Once you’ve successfully registered, you can then login with your Username and password and go right ahead to create your winning team!
Team Management:
This is where you get to select a team of your choice. You will see the complete list of players participating in eligible matches. From this list you can choose players that you think will perform the best.
Each of them will readily become a part of your team but they come at a price. To begin with you are provided a credit pool from which to buy your team. The cost of each player has been determined by our panel of experts.
Whenever you take on a player in your team, the amount you pay for them gets reduced from your credit pool. When you remove a player from your list the cost gets credited back. But the points they scored for you stay with you!
The players who are eliminated from the tournament become inactive in the player list – so the choices narrow as we draw closer to the end of the tournament.
If you choose players who play both in the doubles and singles competition – they score more for you. And they’ll obviously be dearer! You don’t have to have two different teams for singles and doubles competition – but the more matches your chosen ones play, the more you tend to score (for scoring rules see the section on scoring)!
Remember, Indian Fantasy Tennis 2008 game is played on a daily basis. So to maximize your points, make sure you log in everyday and select a team according to the matches of the day – and save your changes and submit the team at least an hour before the start of the first match of the day.
For Fantasy Masters Series 2008, you are required to select a pool of 4 players from amongst the 16 female and 24 male participants. The initial credit pool given to you will be 300.
Qualifying tournaments:
The tournament that will comprise the tour on Indian Fantasy Tennis and the number of players you will be required to select is shown in the table below:
| Tournament |
Dates |
No. of players to be selected |
| Fantasy Wimbledon |
23rd June – 6th July |
6 men, 6 women |
| Fantasy Rogers Cup, Toronto |
21st – 27th July |
6 men |
| Fantasy Olympics |
10th – 17th August |
6 men, 6 women |
| Fantasy US Open |
25th August – 7th September |
6 men, 6 women |
| Fantasy China Open, Beijing |
22nd – 28th September |
3 men, 3 women |
| Fantasy Kremlin Cup, Moscow |
6th – 12th October |
3 men, 3 women |
| Fantasy Swiss Indoors, Basel |
20th – 26th October |
4 men |
Fantasy Sony Ericsson Championships, Doha
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Fantasy Tennis Master Cup, China |
4th – 16th November |
4 women / 4 men |
Scoring Rules:
Your selected players will earn points for you based on the standard score calculating system developed for Indian Fantasy Tennis 2008:
| Event |
Points |
| Winning a game |
1 |
| Winning a set |
2 |
| Winning a match |
5 |
| Winning in straight sets |
10 |
| Defeating higher seeded player |
5 |
| Reaching Quarter-Finals |
5 |
| Reaching Semi-Finals |
7 |
| Reaching Finals |
10 |
| Every Ace served |
1 |
| Double Fault |
-1 |
The scores will be updated at the end of each Match Day automatically and latest rankings will be available within a short time.
Transfers:
You, as the manager, have a right to transferring your players – but you cannot use more credits than you have in your kitty. On transfer of players, the value of each player decided by IFT will be applicable and an equal amount of credits will be either added or debited from your kitty. Transfer rules from one tournament to another will differ. Make sure you check this space!
For Fantasy Masters Series 2008, transfers are divided over two segments.
Segment 1: WTA Sony Ericsson Championship (4th – 9th November 2008).
Segment 2: ATP Masters Cup (9th – 16th November).
Daily transfer of 2 players is allowed till 1 hour before the start of the match.
If a manager fails to change their team anytime, their existing team will be carried forward.
At the end of each match on any Match Day, the points will automatically be updated and the new team positions will be displayed.
You can also view the scores for other teams just like others can view yours! So how about challenging your friends to beat your team scores!
Your Team’s Past Performance:
To review how your team performed on any given Match Day simply go to View My Team and select the Match Day. You will get to see both the formation you had selected on that Match Day as well as how your team performed.
For viewing your team’s standing in the overall tour, go to “View My Team” where you can see the points accumulated by your team for past tournaments and your overall tour score.
Player Performance:
As the game progresses, you surely would like to review performance of players in matches up to that point before deciding on selecting them in your team. You can do that by going into the Player Statistics section. Simply select the Match Day for which you would like to see their performance and you will get the scores they earned on Indian Fantasy Tennis on that day.
Top Teams:
You can view the current top scoring teams at any point of time during the league on the LEADER BOARD.
Top Players:
The top ranking players’ list can be viewed anytime on the Home Page.
Late Registrations:
Just in case you have reached us after the start of Fantasy Masters Series 2008 on November 4th, don't worry. As the old saying goes, better late than never! You can still be part of the most exciting online fantasy tennis game.
You can still register and build your own fantasy tennis team and get points for matches you could not play. For every Match Day that you missed, you will get scores based on a daily average bonus decided by IFT. While if you have missed out a complete tournament, you will be awarded tournament average bonus.
But, remember, once you have registered on IFT and created a team, for all subsequent Match Days that you miss, no bonus will be awarded to you. So make sure you participate in the full tour and not just a tournament to win the Overall Grand Prizes.
Winning:
Winners on Indian Fantasy Tennis will be adjudged on the following basis:
The teams with the maximum points at the end of the game will be declared winners.
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In case of a tie, the team that has won more matches will be adjudged the winner.
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In case there is a tie on both the above criteria, the team that has been created earlier will be declared winner.
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In the unlikely event of a tie in all the above three, the winner will be declared by our panel of experts. Note that the decision of the panel will be binding.
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Team Managers are eligible to win only one prize per tournament. In case the winner of a prize is also adjudged the winner of another one, he/she will be awarded the prize of higher value, while the other prize will be awarded to the next eligible winner.
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All prizes for each tournament will be given at the end of the tournament, and overall tour prizes will be given at the end of the game - when the tour concludes!
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