{"id":862037,"date":"2026-08-20T13:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862037\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:14:11","slug":"tommy-paul-denis-shapovalov-join-jess-pegula-for-world-team-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862037\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Paul, Denis Shapovalov join Jess Pegula for World Team Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">World Team Tennis, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/05\/19\/world-team-tennis-to-relaunch-under-new-ownership-format\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/05\/19\/world-team-tennis-to-relaunch-under-new-ownership-format\/\">relaunching in December<\/a> under new ownership, has revealed the branding of its three teams &#8212; and two additional athletes set to participate in its return season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">WTA No. 3 Jessica Pegula, whom the league announced a contract with when it went public with its return from a five-year hiatus in May, will lead the New York Empire Racquet Club; ATP No. 24 Tommy Paul will represent the Florida Flamingos Racquet Club; and ATP No. 48 Denis Shapovalov, who is Canadian, is signed to the Toronto North Racquet Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">World Team Tennis developed the branding of each team in-house. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/07\/22\/world-team-tennis-announces-cities-adds-range-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/07\/22\/world-team-tennis-announces-cities-adds-range-sports\/\">2026 season<\/a> will be comprised of six events across Brooklyn\u2019s Barclays Center; Sunrise, Fla.\u2019s Amerant Bank Arena; and Toronto\u2019s Coca-Cola Coliseum, starting Dec. 2 at Barclays. Further details have yet to be announced, including each team\u2019s full roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">Pegula and Paul are repped by GSE Worldwide. The terms of their contracts were not available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Team Tennis, which is relaunching in December under new ownership, has revealed the branding of its three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-862037","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\/862037","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=862037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}