United Cup 2025: Schedule, how to respect, TV and streaming, dates, prize money

Tennis fever will quickly hit Australia once extra, because the curtain raises on the 2025 ATP and WTA Tours with the third model of the United Cup.

An world tournament for 18 mixed-sex groups – as adverse to the male-only Davis Cup and girls’s Billie Jean King Cup – the United Cup serves as one among the precursors to the main Grand Slam competition of the year, because the Australian Delivery commences supreme a pair of weeks later.

After the United States won the inaugural United Cup in 2023, Germany come Down Under with a title to protect from the 2024 model, having defeated Poland 2-1 within the final.

As well to the glistening trophy and world bragging rights, there are hefty prize pots and a most of 500 ranking aspects to be won, and right here, Sports actions Mole offers an in-depth data to the upcoming model of the United Cup.

When and where is the 2025 United Cup?

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The 2025 United Cup will be held from December 27 to January 5 within the Australian cities of Perth and Sydney.

All fits in Perth will be done at the RAC Arena, while nations competing in Sydney hold to the laborious courts at the ten,500-seater Ken Rosewall Arena.

How does the 2025 United Cup work?

Eighteen nations beget been drawn into six groups of three for the 2025 United Cup, and the groups will face one one more in a spherical-robin format, with two singles fits previous a doubles contest in most attention-grabbing-of-three ties.

All six crew winners advance straight to the quarter-finals, and the appropriate runners-up in every city will furthermore progress to the final eight.

This year, Groups A (United States, Canada, Croatia), C (Spain, Greece, Kazakhstan) and E (China, Brazil, Germany) are primarily based totally mostly in Perth, while Groups B (Poland, Norway, Czech Republic), D (France, Italy, Switzerland) and F (Huge Britain, Argentina, Australia) are in Sydney.

2025 United Cup time table

All launch times UK

Friday, December 27:

Kazakhstan vs. Spain (2am | Community C | Perth)
China vs. Brazil (9am | Community E | Perth)

Saturday, December 28:

France vs. Switzerland (23.30pm Friday | Community D | Sydney)
Canada vs. Croatia (2am | Community A | Perth)
Australia vs. Argentina (No longer sooner than 6.30am | Community F | Sydney)
Greece vs. Spain (No longer sooner than 9am | Community C | Perth)

Sunday, December 29:

Czech Republic vs. Norway (23.30pm Saturday | Community B | Sydney)
Germany vs. Brazil (2am | Community E | Perth)
Italy vs. Switzerland (No longer sooner than 6.30am | Community D | Sydney)
USA vs. Canada (No longer sooner than 9am | Community A | Perth)

Monday, December 30:

Huge Britain vs. Australia (23.30pm Sunday | Community F | Sydney)
Greece vs Kazakhstan (2am | Community C | Perth)
Poland vs. Norway (No longer sooner than 6.30am | Community B | Sydney)
China vs. Germany (No longer sooner than 9am | Community E | Perth)

Tuesday, December 31:

Italy vs. France (23.30pm Monday | Community D | Sydney)
USA vs. Croatia (2am | Community A | Perth)

Wednesday, January 1:

Poland vs. Czech Republic (23.30pm Tuesday | Community B | Sydney)
Quarter-final 1 – Winner Community C vs. Winner Community E (2am | Perth)
Huge Britain vs. Australia (No longer sooner than 6.30am | Community F | Sydney)
Quarter-final 2 – Winner Community A vs. Most productive runner-up (No longer sooner than 9am | Perth)

Thursday, January 2:

Quarter-final 3 – Winner Community B vs. Most productive runner-up (6.30am | Sydney)

Friday, January 3:

Quarter-final 4 – Winner Community D vs. Winner Community F (6.30am | Sydney)

Saturday, January 4:

Semi-final 1 – Winner QF 1 vs. Winner QF 3 (23.30am Friday | Sydney)
Semi-final 2 – Winner QF 2 vs. Winner QF 4 (No longer sooner than 6.30am | Sydney)

Sunday, January 5:

Final (6.30am | Sydney)

How can I respect the 2025 United Cup?

Viewers within the UK can respect the United Cup on the Tennis Channel International provider – a fleshy listing of TV and streaming alternate choices will also be discovered right here.

How noteworthy prize money is on offer at the 2025 United Cup prize money

A total prize pot of $10m – equal to spherical £7.9m – is on offer at the United Cup, and avid gamers will hold dwelling a form of amounts primarily based totally mostly on their ranking, match wins and general personnel wins.

The top participation prize money is $200,000 (£159,386), which is awarded to avid gamers within the top 10 of the WTA/ATP rankings who’re furthermore the #1 or quantity two player for their nations.

Every player from the winning personnel will pocket $23,155 (£18,452), and #1 avid gamers that gain a match within the final will be awarded $251,000 (£200,029).

A fleshy prize money breakdown will also be discovered right here.

Who’re the avid gamers to respect at the 2025 United Cup?

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Neither of the sector quantity ones will be in action at the United Cup, as Italy’s Jannik Sinner has opted not to play any warm-up events sooner than the Australian Delivery, while Aryna Sabalenka‘s Belarus need to not eager.

However, girls’s world quantity two Iga Swiatek – fresh from serving a one-month doping suspension – headlines the Poland personnel, while Coco Gauff, Jasmine Paolini and Elena Rybakina are among the many a form of top female avid gamers in action.

Germany’s defence will be spearheaded by males’s quantity two Alexander Zverev, one among 4 top-10 ATP avid gamers at the United Cup alongside Taylor Fritz, Alex de Minaur and Stefanos Tsitsipas.

Huge Britain’s troupe contains Katie Boulter, Billy Harris, Lily Miyazaki, Charles Broom and Olivia Nicholls, however males’s #1 Jack Draper has withdrawn due to a hip wreck.

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