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Perth and Sydney will each host nine teams in the 2025 United Cup.

Posted on by L. Dreeye
Perth and Sydney will each host nine teams in the 2025 United Cup.

The United Cup 2025 schedule has been announced. The team competition will take place from December 27 to January 5, with the top players competing to win the grand prize.

The tournament will take place in two different cities: Perth and Sydney. Groups A (USA, Canada, United 2), C (Greece, Kazakhstan, Spain) and E (China, Germany, Brazil will play their matches in Perth. On the other hand, Groups B (Poland, Czech Republic, Norway) D (Italy, France, Switzerland) and F (Great Britain, Australia, combination 1) will play their matches in Sydney.

The tournament holds unique significance in the world of tennis as it remains the only team competition in which male and female tennis players compete together. In other team competitions such as the Davis Cup, Laver Cup and Billie Jean King Cup, men’s and women’s tennis are played separately. This will be the third mega-event. The German team will defend its title. They lifted it last year after Poland beat the final 2-1.

In the first competition of 2023, it was Team USA who defeated Italy in the final, 4–0. The few players who will be the attraction of this year’s tournament will be women’s world No. 1 Iga Swiatek, who will play for Poland, American world No. 3 Coco Gauff, men’s world No. 3 German Alexander Zverev, world No. 6 and two-time Bolshoi champion helmet 2024 runner-up Jasmine Paolini of Italy, 2024 US Open runner-up Taylor Fritz of America, 2024 US Open semi-finalist of Great Britain Jack Draper, two-time Grand Slam vice-president Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece, one-time winner Grand Slam tournament and the current woman of the world Kazakhstan’s fifth racket Elena Rybakina, US Open 2021 runner-up in women’s singles Leila Fernandez from Canada, Australian Open 2024 runner-up Chinese Zheng Qingwen and three-time Grand Slam runner-up Norwegian Kasper Ruud.