Gauff, Fritz to Lead Group USA into United Cup Play
Occasion in Australia Begins New Tennis Season
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18, 2024 – Tennis Channel, its app, web site and second-network T2 would be the unique U.S. properties of the United Cup competitors December 26-January 5. The annual event takes place in Sydney and Perth, Australia, and encompasses a top-seeded United States group led by Coco Gauff (World No. 3 singles) and Taylor Fritz (World No. 4 singles). Protection begins Thursday, Dec. 26, at 9 p.m. ET when Spain performs Kazakhstan. The American group performs Canada Saturday, Dec. 28, at 4 a.m. ET. The USA’ second matchup will probably be towards Croatia, Monday, Dec. 30, at 9 p.m. ET.
Now in its third 12 months, the United Cup showcases 18 nations separated into six teams of three every. Each group performs towards the others in its group, with the six group winners and two finest second-place finishers advancing to the single-elimination quarterfinals. Rosters include top-ranked males’s and ladies’s gamers from every nation. Each matchup encompasses a males’s singles, ladies’s singles and mixed-doubles contest, every price one level. The nation that wins two factors wins the head-to-head competitors.
Tennis Channel’s United Cup protection typically begins at 6:30 p.m. ET most evenings (a day by day schedule will be discovered right here: Tennis Channel Schedule, whereas a whole United Cup session schedule will be discovered on the occasion’s web site: United Cup Schedule). The primary semifinal will air Friday, Jan. 3, at 6:30 p.m. ET, adopted by the second on Saturday, Jan. 4, at 1:30 a.m. ET. The United Cup championship matchup will start Sunday, Jan. 5, at 1:30 a.m. ET.
Corridor of Famer Tracy Austin (@thetracyaustin) will supply United Cup evaluation on Tuesday, Jan. 31, throughout T2’s weekly Girls’s Day protection. Different former skilled gamers on the Tennis Channel and T2 on-air groups for the occasion are Chanda Rubin (@Chanda_Rubin), Paul Annacone (@paul_annacone), Coco Vandeweghe (@CocoVandey), Jan-Michael Gambill (@JanmikeGambill) and Jason Goodall. Announcers Abigail Johnson (@abigailtennis), Gill Gross (@Gill_Gross) and Dani Klupenger (@DaniKlup) spherical out the channel’s United Cup group, with Klupenger becoming a member of Austin for the Girls’s Day telecast.
Subsequent to Gauff and Fritz, Danielle Collins (World No. 9, singles) is one other top-10 star for america group in Australia this 12 months. The three will share the roster with Desirae Krawczyk, Denis Kudla and Robert Galloway. The USA gained the inaugural United Cup in 2023, with a group that included Fritz, Krawczyk and Kudla.
Different top-ranked stars competing within the United Cup this 12 months embrace Iga Swiatek (Poland), Alexander Zverev (Germany), Jasmine Paolini (Italy), Casper Ruud (Norway), Qinwin Zheng (China), Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) and Alex de Minaur (Australia).
Along with america, there are 17 nations competing for the 2025 United Cup: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Kazakhstan, Norway, Poland, Spain and Switzerland.