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United Cup 2026 draw revealed
Eighteen international locations drawn into six teams of three groups
November 18, 2025
The world’s greatest tennis gamers are set for some blockbuster match-ups on the fourth version of the United Cup, the revolutionary blended crew occasion in Perth and Sydney from Friday 2 to Sunday 11 January 2026.
Eighteen international locations have been drawn into six teams of three groups on the official draw at this time.
Icons of the sport, Wally Masur and Jelena Dokic have been available for the proceedings, whereas Casey Dellacqua and Matt Ebden attended the United Cup draw occasion at RAC Area in Perth.
Perth
Defending champions Crew USA and prime seeds headline Group A and can return to Perth in 2026. Led by World No. 3 Coco Gauff and the No. 6 participant within the PIF ATP Rankings Taylor Fritz, USA will go head-to-head with Spain and Argentina within the group stage.
Third seeds Crew Italy, guided by World No.8 and 2024 Roland Garros and Wimbledon finalist Jasmine Paolini and rising star Flavio Cobolli will meet Crew France and Crew Switzerland’s Stan Wawrinka and World No.11 Belinda Bencic in Group C.
Crew Nice Britain, that includes a recent line-up together with World No.10 Jack Draper and 2021 US Open champion Emma Raducanu, will headline Group E alongside Crew Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas and Maria Sakkari and debutant’s Crew Japan led by four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka and 2019 Junior Wimbledon champion Shintaro Mochizuki.
Sydney
World No.5 Felix Auger-Aliassime and teenage expertise Victoria Mboko prime Group B in Sydney because the No. 2 seeds within the competitors in 2026. They are going to face Crew Belgium and Crew China.
Group D will characteristic Crew Australia led by World No. 7 Alex de Minaur and the nation’s new top-ranked lady, World No. 32 Maya Joint. Crew Czechia and Casper Ruud’s Crew Norway full the group.
United Cup 2024 champions Crew Germany, led by World No.3 Alexander Zverev and debutant Eva Lys will star in Group F, alongside Poland’s World No. 2 Iga Swiatek and Hubert Hurkacz and Crew Netherlands.
United Cup Event Director Stephen Farrow mentioned the draw for 2026 will see a few of the greatest names in tennis play the United Cup this summer time.
“We’re extraordinarily happy with this competitors for what it represents and celebrates, the truth that our nice sport of tennis is performed by so many wonderful athletes on each the feminine and male facet of the game,” Farrow mentioned.
“To carry these athletes collectively to play for not simply massive rating factors and prize cash however for his or her nation and nationwide pleasure is what makes this competitors so particular.
“It’s an intense and thrilling ambiance with a great deal of followers coming to observe. A number of the prime gamers on the earth, actually engaged and eager to win on the market on courtroom in Perth and Sydney. We have now an enormous quantity to stay up for in January.”
Western Australian Tourism Minister the Hon. Reece Whitby MLA mentioned: “We’re completely delighted to welcome such a gifted lineup of tennis groups to Western Australia. I’m extraordinarily excited we’ll be internet hosting USA and Italy for enormous tennis matches that can serve up one other unimaginable yr of main occasions for the State.
“Occasions just like the United Cup construct on WA’s standing as a premier vacation spot for main sporting occasions, spotlighting our vibrant capital metropolis within the lovely summertime.
“Returning for a fourth yr, the United Cup is a improbable occasion that types a part of our financial diversification technique to attract guests to our State and inject tens of millions of beneficial tourism {dollars} offering a lift to native enterprise and jobs.”
NSW Minister for Sport and Minister for Jobs and Tourism Steve Kamper added, “Because the host metropolis of the event’s greatest matches, the United Cup is among the most anticipated occasions in Sydney’s packed summer time of sport, providing followers a uncommon alternative to observe the world’s greatest tennis gamers compete for his or her nation.
“The electrical ambiance of Ken Rosewall Area created by passionate followers from throughout the globe is a very distinctive expertise that can once more showcase Sydney as one of many world’s nice levels for worldwide sport.”
The event schedule will likely be launched tomorrow, Tuesday 18 November. Group stage tickets will go on sale from 12.00pm native time Wednesday 19 November in Perth and Sydney. Grownup tickets begin from $40 and from $20 for youngsters 3-12 years of age.
