The 2016 International Premier Tennis League season (2016 IPTL season, officially the 2016 Coca-Cola International Premier Tennis League) was the third and final season of the professional team tennis league contested by four teams in Asia.

Teams and players

Four teams competed in the 2016 IPTL season.^[1]

Although the IPTL had announced that the top stars Roger Federer and Serena Williams would take part in this year, both players withdrew due to financial causes shortly after the league had started.^[2]

The Philippine Mavericks did not compete in this season, reportedly due to IPTL's failure to fulfill its obligations to the franchise in the 2015 season.^[3][4]

Category	Indian Aces	Japan Warriors	Singapore Slammers	UAE Royals
Men
Player A	Feliciano López	Kei Nishikori	Nick Kyrgios	Tomáš Berdych
Player B	Ivan Dodig	Fernando Verdasco	Marcos Baghdatis	Pablo Cuevas
Doubles	Rohan Bopanna	Jean-Julien Rojer	Marcelo Melo	Daniel Nestor
Legends A	Mark Philippoussis	Marat Safin	Carlos Moyá	Goran Ivanišević
Legends B	Thomas Enqvist	Fernando González	Rainer Schüttler	Thomas Johansson
Player C		Prajnesh Gunneswaran
Women
Player A	Sania Mirza	Jelena Janković	Kiki Bertens	Ana Ivanovic
Player B	Kirsten Flipkens	Kurumi Nara		Martina Hingis

Schedule

The 2016 IPTL will be played in three cities.^[5]

Round	Location	Date	Team 1	Score	Team 2
1	Saitama Saitama Super Arena	2 December	UAE Royals	29–19	Singapore Slammers
			Japan Warriors	17–30	Indian Aces
2		3 December	Singapore Slammers	25–26	Indian Aces
			Japan Warriors	23–20	UAE Royals
3		4 December	UAE Royals	30-20	Indian Aces
			Japan Warriors	23-27	Singapore Slammers
4	Singapore Singapore Indoor Stadium	6 December	Indian Aces	26-19	UAE Royals
			Singapore Slammers	29-16	Japan Warriors
5		7 December	Indian Aces	20-27	Japan Warriors
			Singapore Slammers	30-18	UAE Royals
6		8 December	UAE Royals	20-23	Japan Warriors
			Singapore Slammers	22-23	Indian Aces
7	Hyderabad Gachibowli Indoor Stadium	9 December	UAE Royals	20-25	Japan Warriors
			Indian Aces	24-19	Singapore Slammers
8		10 December	Singapore Slammers	30-20	Japan Warriors
			Indian Aces	20-24	UAE Royals
Final		11 December	Singapore Slammers	30-14	Indian Aces

Results table

Team	Round
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
	Dec 2	Dec 3	Dec 4	Dec 6	Dec 7	Dec 8	Dec 9	Dec 10	Dec 11
Indian Aces (IND)	JPN	SIN	UAE	UAE	JPN	SIN	SIN	UAE	SIN
	30–17	26–25	20–30	26–19	20–27	23–22	24–19	20–24	14–30
Japan Warriors (JPN)	IND	UAE	SIN	SIN	IND	UAE	UAE	SIN	3rd
	17–30	23–20	23–27	16–29	27–20	23–20	25–20	20–30
Singapore Slammers (SIN)	UAE	IND	JPN	JPN	UAE	IND	IND	JPN	IND
	19–29	25–26	27–23	29–16	30–18	22–23	19–24	30–20	30–14
UAE Royals (UAE)	SIN	JPN	IND	IND	SIN	JPN	JPN	IND	4th
	29–19	20–23	30–20	19–26	18–30	20–23	20–25	24–20
Color Key: Win  •   Loss  •   Home  •   Away  •   Neutral

Standings

Standings are determined by number of points. 3 points for match win, 1 point for loss with at least 20 games wins.
Top two teams qualify for final.

P	Team	MP	W	L	GW	GL	Pts
1	Indian Aces	8	5	3	189	183	18
2	Singapore Slammers	8	4	4	201	179	14
3	Japan Warriors	8	4	4	174	196	14
4	UAE Royals	8	3	5	180	186	12

Final