TEAMS NAMED FOR 2025 UNITED CUP

Seven of the world's top 10 women and six of the world's top 12 men are locked in for the 2025 United Cup to kickstart the 2025 Tennis season.

LIST OF QUALIFIED COUNTRIES AND PLAYER ENTRY LIST

ATP 6 225 38*	USA Taylor Fritz Denis Kudla Robert Galloway	WTA 3 9 10*	Coco Gauff Danielle Collins Desirae Krawczyk
12 117 27*	POLAND Hubert Hurkacz Kamil Majchrzak Jan Zielinski	1 175 P65*	Iga Swiatek Maja Chwalinska Alicja Rosolska
11 504 76*	GREECE Stefanos Tsitsipas Stefanos Sakellaridis Petros Tsitsipas	22 288 136*	Maria Sakkari Despina Papamichail Valentini Grammatikopoulou
30 150 6*	ITALY Flavio Cobolli Matteo Gigante Andrea Vavassori	6 90 72*	Jasmine Paolini Sara Errani Angelica Moratelli
46 280 199*	CHINA Zhang Zhizhen Bai Yan Sun Fajing	7 168 30*	Zheng Qinwen Gao Xinyu Zhang Shuai
19 110 12*	GREAT BRITAIN Jack Draper Billy Harris Joe Salisbury	35 160 40*	Katie Boulter Yuriko Lily Miyazaki Olivia Nicholls
21 272 230*	CANADA Felix Auger-Aliassime Liam Draxl Benjamin Sogouin	34 277 183*	Leylah Fernandez Stacey Fung Ariana Arseneault
25 369 78*	CZECHIA Tomas Machac Marek Gengel Patrik Rikl	P9 218 J19	Karolina Muchova Gabriela Knutson Vendula Valdmannova
61 173 57*	KAZAKHSTAN Alexander Shevchenko Dmitry Popko Aleksandr Nedovyesov	5 314	Elena Rybakina Zhibek Kulambayeva
16 71 19*	FRANCE Ugo Humbert Corentin Moutet Edouard Roger-Vasselin	52 105 96*	Diane Parry Chloe Paquet Elixane Lechemia
3 269 15*	GERMANY Alexander Zverev Daniel Masur Tim Puetz	89 545 P179*	Laura Siegemund Lena Papadakis Vivian Heisen
9 191 7*	AUSTRALIA Alex de Minaur Omar Jasika Matthew Ebden	84 196 13*	Olivia Gadecki Destanee Aiava Ellen Perez
88 175 36*	BRAZIL Thiago Monteiro Gustavo Heide Rafael Matos	10 305 29*	Beatriz Haddad Maia Carolina Alves Luisa Stefani
P18 190 119*	SPAIN Pablo Carreno Busta Carlos Taberner Sergio Martos Gornes	62 153 86*	Jessica Bouzas Maneiro Marina Bassols Ribera Yvonne Cavalle-Reimers
8 444 J1	NORWAY Casper Ruud Viktor Durasovic Nicolai Budkov Kjaer	465 P486 44*	Malene Helgo Emilie Lindh Gallagher Ulrikke Elkeri
P94 290 159*	SWITZERLAND Dominic Stricker Remy Bertola Jakub Paul	P15 234 101*	Belinda Bencic Celine Naef Conny Perrin

P= Protected ranking, J= Junior ranking, *= Doubles ranking

The official draw will be held this Monday. Countries will be drawn into six groups of three countries.

Watch the draw live from 11.30am AEDT on the United Cup Facebook page.

The tournament schedule will be released on Tuesday 22 October with tickets to the United Cup group stage on sale from 5.00pm local time in each host city.

Adult prices start from $40 and from $20 for children 3-12 years of age. Family passes (two adults and two children) start from $100.

Format and qualification

• The third edition of United Cup will be held from Friday 27 December to Sunday 5 January 2025

• The group stage in Perth (RAC Arena) runs from Friday 27 December to Tuesday 31 December. The quarterfinals in Perth will be held on Wednesday 1 January (New Year’s Day)

• The group stage in Sydney (Ken Rosewall Arena) runs from Saturday 28 December to Wednesday 1 January (New Year’s Day). The quarterfinals in Sydney will be held across Thursday 2 and Friday 3 January

• Sydney will host two semifinals on Saturday 4 January followed by the United Cup final from 5.30pm on Sunday 5 January

• Teams travelling from Perth to Sydney have a travel day and rest day before their semifinal matches

• At the entry deadline on 16 October, ten countries qualified for the United Cup via the five highest-ranked men and five highest-ranked women entered, based on their PIF ATP and WTA rankings

• Eight teams qualify according to the best combined ranking of the highest-ranked men’s and women’s players from the same country

• New for 2025 - at the second qualification date, if there is a player in the Top 10 (maximum 1 ATP and 1 WTA player) of the latest PIF ATP or WTA rankings who has entered and has an eligible team but has not been accepted based on their individual ATP/WTA ranking, they will be accepted, and their team will replace the lowest ranked team with combined ranking

• Australia is guaranteed entry, either directly via ranking or as a wildcard

• Seedings are based on the combined ranking of the No.1 ATP and No.1 WTA player

• Each city will host nine teams each - three groups of three countries, competing in a round robin format

• Each tie will comprise one men’s singles and one women’s singles match featuring the No.1 ranked singles players, and one mixed doubles match

• Singles matches are best of three tie-break sets. Mixed doubles matches are two tie-break sets with a deciding match tie-break (10 point) at one set all

• Group winners in each city advance to the quarterfinals with one quarterfinal spot in each city awarded to the best runner up in that city

• Winners will progress to the semifinals and final to be played in Sydney

• The United Cup official draw determines where the top 16 countries will play. The second qualification date of 19 November will determine the final two teams.

Schedule and tickets

• The tournament schedule will be released on Tuesday 22 October

• Tickets for the United Cup quarterfinals in Perth are on sale via Ticketek

• Tickets for the United Cup quarterfinals, semifinals and final in Sydney are on sale via Ticketmaster

• Tickets for the United Cup group stage go on sale Tuesday 22 October at 5.00pm local time in each host city.

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