2015 World TeamTennis season
No Team Player chosen Prot ?
1 Boston Lobsters Chase Buchanan N
2 California Dream Tennys Sandgren N
3 Austin Aces Jarmere Jenkins N
4 Philadelphia Freedoms Marcelo Melo Y
5 San Diego Aviators Chanelle Scheepers N
6 Springfield Lasers Anna-Lena Grönefeld Y
7 Washington Kastles Pass -
Draft
Unlike previous seasons in which WTT conducted its Marquee Player Draft and its Roster Player Draft on different dates about one month apart , the league conducted a single draft at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells , California on March 16 , 2015 . [ 3 ] The order in which teams selected was based on the results the teams achieved in 2014 , with weaker teams selecting earlier and stronger teams selecting later . The team with the worst regular-season record selected first in each round , and the remaining nonplayoff teams followed in order based on their records . After the nonplayoff teams chose , the conference championship loser with the worse record of the two selected and was followed by the other conference championship loser . The WTT runner up selected after the conference championship losers , and the WTT champion selected last . The draft position for the relocated California Dream franchise was based on the results achieved as the Texas Wild . [ 4 ] Each team could protect certain players from its 2014 roster . Marquee players or doubles teams and wildcard players could be protected if they appeared in a match for the team in 2014 . Exempt , roster and substitute players who appeared in at least three matches for the team in 2014 , could also be protected . [ 5 ] Teams could also protect players who qualified for protection based on match appearances in 2013 , but were unable to play in 2014 , due to injury . [ 6 ] Teams holding the right to protect players could trade those rights before or during the draft . [ 7 ] In another change from previous seasons , WTT eliminated its separate roster-exempt player draft . Instead , roster-exempt players were chosen in the roster player portion of the draft . [ 8 ] Since roster-exempt players are not required to be full-time members of the team , the rule change makes it possible for a team to make four selections in the roster player portion of the draft and not have two male and two female full-time players . In such cases , these teams are permitted to make selections in additional rounds of the roster player draft until they have a complete roster . [ 9 ] The selections made [ 3 ] are shown in the tables below . Marquee draft - first round Marquee draft - second round Marquee draft - third round Roster draft - first round Roster draft - second round Roster draft - third round
The 2015 World TeamTennis season was the 40th season of the top professional team tennis league in the United States. Pursuant to a sponsorship agreement with Mylan N.V., the official name of the league was Mylan World TeamTennis in 2015. The Washington Kastles defeated the Austin Aces in the WTT Final to win their fifth consecutive King Trophy.