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[caption id="attachment_26953" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Premier Badminton League Season 2 finals to be held in New Delhi. File Pic[/caption] Internet Desk: Hyderabad will host the opening ceremony of the Premier Badminton League season 2 on January 1, 2017 while the final is scheduled to be held in New Delhi on Janauary 14, the organisers announced on Tuesday. The event features six teams vying for a prize purse of Rs 6 crore and will see Hyderabad Hunters and Chennai Smashers kickoff the season at the Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. The tie is being billed as the clash of titans with Olympic champion Carolina Marin (Hyderabad) and Olympic silver medalist PV Sindhu going against each other on the opening day. After two days of action in Hyderabad, National Sports Club of India, Mumbai and BBD Uttar Pradesh Badminton Academy will host the second and third leg respectively. Koramangala Indoor Stadium will host the Bangalore leg as well as be the home stadium of Chennai Smashers. Chennai has not been included in the schedule this year due to unavoidable circumstances. “We were very keen to extend PBL to Chennai this year, as it is one of the key markets for badminton in India. But unfortunately we have not been able to do it this year and we hope that from next year, Chennai and Tamil Nadu will become one of the key stops for PBL in the calendar,” Atul Pande, the Managing Director of SportzLive said. The most coveted Badminton League in the country, PBL will then come to the capital for the last league match before hosting the semifinals (January 12 and 13) and the grand finale of January 14. “We are excited to bring the PBL season 2 which is bigger, better and more exciting than the previous edition. With the kind of line-up that we have for this year’s edition, it has indeed given a rise to the popularity of the league even before it started. And it has been overwhelming to see the kind of response we have received so far in terms of ticket sales and we are expecting a full house at every venue,” Prasad Mangipudi, director of SportzLive said. Schedule: January 1: in Hyderabad Hyderabad Hunters vs Chennai Smashers, Bengaluru Blasters vs Delhi Acers January 2: in Hyderabad Awadhe Warriors vs Hyderabad Hunters January 3: in Mumbai Bengaluru Blasters vs Chennai Smashers, Delhi Acers vs Mumbai Rockets January 4: in Mumbai Hyderabad Hunters vs Mumbai Rockets January 5: in Lucknow Awadhe Warriors vs Delhi Acers January 6: in Lucknow Awadhe Warriors vs Mumbai Rockets January 7: in Bangalore Bengaluru Blasters vs Hyderabad Hunters January 8: in Bangalore Delhi Acers vs Chennai Smashers, Bengaluru Blasters vs Mumbai Rockets January 9: in Bangalore Awadhe Warriors vs Bengaluru Blasters January 10: in Bangalore Mumbai Rockets vs Chennai Smashers January 11: in Bangalore Awadhe Warriors v/s Chennai Smashers January 12: in Delhi Delhi Acers v/s Hyderabad Hunters January 13: in Delhi Semifinal 1 Semifinal 2 January 14: in Delhi Final With inputs from PTI.