{"id":401459,"date":"2026-01-09T07:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401459\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:07:10","slug":"australia-vs-poland-alex-de-minaur-maya-joint-schedule-draw-when-do-they-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401459\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs Poland, Alex de Minaur, Maya Joint, schedule, draw, when do they play?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex de Minaur and top Australian women\u2019s seed Maya Joint are in action on Friday night in the United Cup quarter-finals. <\/p>\n

The Australians face Team Poland\u2019s Hubert Hurkacz and Iga Swiatek for a spot in the semis against the United States. <\/p>\n

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Australian up-and-comer Joint, the world no.32, faces superstar two-seed Swiatek first up at 5:30pm AEDT at Sydney\u2019s Ken Rosewall Arena. <\/p>\n

Then, not before 7:00pm, de Minaur is up against former world No.6 Hurkacz, who\u2019s in red-hot form after spending six months sidelined with injury. <\/p>\n

Hurkacz, currently ranked 83rd, beat world No.3 Alexander Zverev a few days ago, if that\u2019s any indication as to the prolific nick he\u2019s in. <\/p>\n

Then, if required, it\u2019ll be Storm Hunter and John-Patrick Smith in the mixed doubles for the Aussies against Swiatek and Hurkacz for a spot in the semi-finals against the Americans. <\/p>\n

Young sensation Joint will be looking to make amends for her disappointing 6-4 6-1 loss at the hands of two-time grand slam champ Barbora Krejcikova on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The 19-year-old missed Australia\u2019s 2-1 victory over Norway due to illness. <\/p>\n

World no.6 De Minaur, meanwhile, who\u2019s hoping to again put his stamp on the world stage in the Australian Open later this month, rebounded from a season-opening loss to Casper Ruud to beat young Czechia sensation Jakub Men\u0161\u00edk. <\/p>\n

\u201cObviously I didn\u2019t start the year the way I wanted to, but I tried to not take that match too much into account,\u201d de Minaur said after his efforts helped Australia progress to the quarter-finals<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cI thought Casper played really well, but something that I\u2019ve done really well in my career is bouncing back, so I\u2019m very happy with the way I bounced back (against Men\u0161\u00edk).\u201d<\/p>\n

The $17 million United Cup tournament is worth a maximum of 500 ranking points. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur and top Australian women\u2019s seed Maya Joint are in action on Friday night in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5244,2095,64,63,689,213456,60121,2057,213457,213451,2105,213455,208900,673,44,2041,2067,3583,21839,677,213453,670,213452,213454,2614,11376],"class_list":["post-401459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-alexander-zverev","tag-america","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-up-and-comer","tag-australian-women","tag-europe","tag-faces-superstar","tag-fox-tennis","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-grand-slam-champ","tag-john-patrick-smith","tag-new-south-wales","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-northern-europe","tag-norway","tag-oceania","tag-sensation-plots-redemption","tag-sydney","tag-two-time-grand-slam","tag-united-cup-scores","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-young-sensation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401459","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=401459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}