British No.1 Jack Draper, back to competition next December, will face Casper Ruud, Francisco Cerundolo and David Goffin in Group B at the UTS London Grand Final, the draw revealed on Thursday. The tournament, held at London\u2019s Copper Box Arena from December 5 to 7, features eight players split into two groups.<\/p>\n
2023 champion Draper, who is unbeaten in UTS play and won this 2023 crown title without dropping a match, will open against Goffin on December 5. He then takes on Cerundolo on December 6, followed by a late match against Ruud the same day.<\/p>\n
Group A is led by last year\u2019s winner Alex de Minaur, who will face Andrey Rublev, Tomas Machac and Adrian Mannarino.<\/p>\n
The former UTS year-end champions, Draper and De Minaur, have been granted a wild-card to participate to the 2024 edition, while four former edition winners are on the field : Machac (Guadalajara 2025), Rublev (Frankfurt 2023, Oslo 2024), Ruud (N\u00eemes 2025) and Cerundolo (Hong Kong 2025). Only Goffin and Mannarino have never won a UTS crown.<\/p>\n
The UTS format guarantees action-packed matches over three days, with all players competing on both Friday and Saturday before semifinals and the final on Sunday. Matches consist of four eight-minute quarters and feature strategic elements unique to the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British No.1 Jack Draper, back to competition next December, will face Casper Ruud, Francisco Cerundolo and David Goffin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-268666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}