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WTL 2025: EaseMyTrip becomes official travel partner
NEW DELHI: EaseMyTrip has been appointed the official travel partner for the India debut of the World Tennis League (WTL), which will run from 17–20 December at the SM Krishna Tennis Stadium in Bengaluru. The league, held earlier in the UAE, enters its fourth season with its first staging in India.
Under the partnership, EaseMyTrip will manage end-to-end travel and logistics for players, teams and officials. The 2025 edition features a strong line-up including Daniil Medvedev, Nick Kyrgios, Paula Badosa, Denis Shapovalov, Gaël Monfils, Elina Svitolina and India’s leading names such as Rohan Bopanna, Sumit Nagal, Ankita Raina and Yuki Bhambri.
EaseMyTrip founder and CMD Nishant Pitti, said the tie-up marked “a landmark moment for India’s sporting ecosystem”, adding that the company aims to deliver smooth, high-quality travel support for international athletes.
WTL co-founder Hemali Sharma, said partnering with EaseMyTrip strengthened the league’s promise of delivering “a global-standard event” with meticulous travel operations.
The World Tennis League blends elite competition with entertainment-led programming and aims to boost India’s growing interest in global tennis as it enters a new market.
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UK’s OnlyFans seeks US investor at $3bn valuation after owner’s death
The adult video platform is seeking stability after the death of its billionaire owner
LONDON: OnlyFans is looking for a new partner. The London-based adult video platform is in advanced talks to sell a minority stake of less than 20 per cent to Architect Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm, in a deal that would value the business at more than $3bn (£2.2bn).
The move is driven by an urgent need for stability. Leonid Radvinsky, the Ukrainian-American billionaire who owned OnlyFans, died of cancer last month at the age of 43, leaving the future of one of Britain’s most profitable privately held businesses suddenly uncertain.
The choice of Architect Capital is not arbitrary. The firm has deep expertise in financial services, which aligns neatly with OnlyFans’ ambitions to offer banking products to its creators, many of whom have long struggled to access basic financial services because of the nature of their work.
The numbers behind OnlyFans are, by any measure, staggering. The platform posted revenues of $1.4bn in the year to 30th November 2024, with a pre-tax profit of $684m, up four per cent on the prior year. Payments to creators totalled $7.2bn over the same period, a rise of nearly ten per cent. Radvinsky personally collected $701m in dividends from the business in 2024 alone, on top of more than $1bn in such payments he had already received. The platform, run through its parent company Felix International, hosts 4.6m creator accounts, with performers keeping 80 per cent of subscription proceeds and the platform pocketing the remaining 20 per cent. It has 377m fan accounts in total.
The current minority stake talks represent a notable scaling back of ambitions. In January, OnlyFans was reported to be in discussions with Architect about selling a majority stake of 60 per cent. Before that, the company had explored a sale to a consortium led by Forest Road Company, a Los Angeles-based investment firm. Neither deal materialised.
OnlyFans has built an enormously lucrative business on content that mainstream finance has long refused to touch. Now, with its owner gone and a $3bn valuation on the table, it is looking for the kind of respectable institutional backing that might finally persuade the banks to take its calls.
