28 Oct 2024
United Cup 2025 schedule released
The schedule for United Cup 2025 has been released as tickets to the tournament’s group stage go on sale today at 5.00pm local time in Perth and Sydney.
The world’s best tennis players are set for some thrilling match-ups at the third edition of the innovative mixed team event when action unfolds from Friday 27 December to Sunday 5 January.
The United Cup will host seven of the world’s top 10 women and six of the world’s top 13 men, including superstars Alex de Minaur, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff, Alexander Zverev, Taylor Fritz, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Jasmine Paolini.
An exciting crop of next generation tennis stars including Jack Draper, Tomas Machac, Flavio Cobolli and Australia’s new top-100 star Olivia Gadecki will also feature.
At RAC Arena in Perth, Team USA, Greece, China, Germany, Canada and more will contest the group stage when the event begins on Friday 27 December.
Top seeds United States will face Canada in their opening Group A tie on Sunday 29 December.
At Ken Rosewall Arena in Sydney, Australia will kick off its campaign on Saturday 28 December. The host country will then face Great Britain in a blockbuster New Year’s Day clash.
Other countries in Sydney include Poland, Italy, France, Czechia, Switzerland and Norway.
Each tie at the United Cup will comprise one men’s singles and one women’s singles match followed by one mixed doubles match.
Singles matches are best-of-three tiebreak sets. Mixed doubles matches are two tiebreak sets with a deciding match tiebreak (10 points) at one set-all.
In Perth, the day session will start at 10.00am and 5.00pm local time for the night session.
In Sydney, the day session will begin at 10.30am and 5.30pm for the second session.
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.
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.
Tickets to the quarterfinals, semifinals and final are already on sale. For more ticket information please visit UnitedCup.com/tickets.
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Format
- 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
- Each city will host nine teams each - three groups of three countries, competing in a round robin format
- The final two teams for the tournament will be determined in November.
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The United Cup, an ATP-WTA event presented in partnership with Tennis Australia, offers a minimum AUD $15 million / USD $10 million in prize money and 500 PIF ATP and WTA rankings points.
The tournament is proudly supported by host city partners, the WA Government through Tourism WA and the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency Destination NSW.
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