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Fritz & Gauff to characterize USA in United Cup; Zverev, Felix be part of discipline

German Zverev aiming to assist dwelling nation defend title

October 10, 2024

World No.4 Coco Gauff will make her United Cup debut for Staff USA alongside world No.7 and US Open finalist Taylor Fritz on the revolutionary combined group occasion in 2025.

Twenty-year-old Gauff, who was the flag bearer for the USA on the Olympic Video games in Paris, thrives in a group setting.

“This shall be my first time taking part in the United Cup so I’m tremendous excited to kick off the 12 months in Australia,” Gauff mentioned. “It’s at all times an honour to characterize my nation.”

“It’s a very, cool occasion. I had quite a lot of enjoyable taking part in combined doubles on the Olympics so I kinda wish to try this once more.

“I’ve by no means been to different components of Australia, apart from Melbourne. I don’t know what metropolis we’re going to play in but however I’m tremendous excited to go whether or not it’s Perth or Sydney.”

World No.3 Alexander Zverev, who helped information Staff Germany to a memorable comeback win over Poland to safe the second version of the United Cup, used the occasion to arrange a stellar season, together with deep runs on the Grand Slams and the Roland Garros ultimate.

The 27-year-old, who holds 22 ATP singles titles, is trying ahead to creating his third look on the match.

“It’s the primary week of the 12 months… and all of us wish to be in Australia and play in opposition to the perfect gamers on the planet and that’s what the United Cup brings,” Zverev mentioned.

“Enjoying in your nation is clearly extraordinarily particular and I’ve the perfect recollections from this 12 months.”

The distinctive group setting United Cup provides can also be an enormous motivation for Leylah Fernandez and Felix Auger-Aliassime who’re set to line up for Staff Canada once more in 2025.

“I wish to play United Cup 2025 as a result of it’s such a enjoyable group expertise,” mentioned Fernandez, a US Open finalist in 2021.

“I really like being a part of a group… I get to see somewhat bit extra of the boys’s aspect of the group and in addition how they assume on court docket, I get to choose their brains somewhat bit.

“I additionally assume the interplay between all of us [is special], we grew up collectively so it’s good to have that second to catch up.”

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Auger-Aliassime agrees, “It’s an effective way to start out the 12 months,” he mentioned.

“I’ve had nice success [playing for my country] and mixing up with Leylah, is at all times good. I really like her vitality, I really like her recreation so it’s going to be quite a lot of enjoyable.

“It’s actually my favorite factor, a few of my favorite weeks on tour [playing as part of a team].”

Greece’s (12) Stefanos Tsitsipas and Maria Sakkari, China’s (7) Zheng Qinwen and Norway’s (9) Casper Ruud dedicated to the third version of the match in September.

From Friday 27 December to Sunday 5 January, 18 nations, that includes as much as three males and as much as three girls, will compete throughout Perth and Sydney.

United Cup Match Director Stephen Farrow is delighted to have 5 extra gamers decide to the match early.

“We’re so happy to see Grand Slam champion Coco Gauff line up for Staff USA for the primary time alongside US Open finalist Taylor Fritz,” Farrow mentioned.

“Germany’s world No.3 Alexander Zverev, the two-time Grand Slam finalist and Tokyo Olympics gold medallist, at all times brings the vitality to the United Cup and little question the defending champions shall be raring to go for the primary week of the brand new 12 months.

“We’re additionally excited to welcome Leylah Fernandez and Felix Auger-Aliassime again to the occasion in 2025. The Canadian followers turned out in droves earlier this 12 months and we look ahead to seeing them of their nation colors once more to help the group’s subsequent marketing campaign.”

Participation for the primary 16 groups within the United Cup is topic to gamers committing by the match’s entry deadline of 16 October. The remaining two groups shall be determined after the second qualification date of 19 November.

The official draw shall be held on 21 October and can decide the place every nation will play the group stage. 

Ten nations will qualify for the United Cup through the 5 highest-ranked males and 5 highest-ranked girls entered primarily based on their PIF ATP and WTA rankings.

Eight groups will qualify in keeping with the perfect mixed rating of the highest-ranked males’s and girls’s gamers from the identical nation.

Tickets

•  Tickets for the United Cup quarterfinals in Perth are on sale through Ticketek

•  Tickets for the United Cup quarterfinals, semifinals and ultimate in Sydney are on sale through Ticketmaster

•  Tickets to the United Cup group levels go on sale Tuesday 22 October at 5:00 p.m. native time in Sydney and Perth

Go to the match tickets web page to purchase your tickets.

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