The schedule for United Cup 2026 has been released ahead of tickets to the tournament\u2019s group stage going on sale Wednesday 19 November from 12.00pm local time in Perth and Sydney.<\/p>\n
The world\u2019s best tennis players are set for some blockbuster match ups at the fourth edition of the innovative mixed team event this summer.<\/p>\n
In 2026, the event will feature five of the world\u2019s top 10 men and four of the world\u2019s top 10 women including Alex de Minaur, Coco Gauff, Taylor Fritz, Iga Swiatek, Alexander Zverev, Jasmine Paolini, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Jack Draper.<\/p>\n
Other standout names competing include Emma Raducanu, Naomi Osaka, Belinda Bencic, Stan Wawrinka, Jakub Mensik, Flavio Cobolli, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Maria Sakkari.<\/p>\n
RELATED: United Cup 2026 draw revealed<\/a><\/p>\n At RAC Arena, Team USA, Italy, Great Britain, Japan, Switzerland, Greece, France and more will contest the group stage in Perth when the event begins on Friday 2 January.<\/p>\n Top seeds USA will face Argentina in their opening Group A tie on Saturday 3 January.\u00a0<\/p>\n At Ken Rosewall Arena in Sydney, Australia \u2013 represented by De Minaur, Maya Joint<\/a>, Jason Kubler, Maddison Inglis, Storm Hunter and John-Patrick Smith \u2013 will kick off its campaign against Casper Ruud\u2019s Team Norway on Saturday 3 January. The host country will then face Czechia on Tuesday 6 January.\u00a0<\/p>\n Other countries in Sydney include Canada, Poland, Germany, China, Belgium and Netherlands.\u00a0<\/p>\n Five hottest match-ups in Perth Group Stage<\/p>\n Friday 2 January (Night): Group E \u2013 Team Greece v Team Japan Five hottest match-ups in Sydney Group Stage<\/p>\n Saturday 3 January (Night): Group D \u2013 Team Australia v Team Norway\u00a0 Each tie at the United Cup will comprise one men\u2019s singles and one women\u2019s singles match followed by one mixed doubles match. VIEW: The countries and players at United Cup 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Tickets<\/p>\n Tickets to the United Cup group stage go on sale from 12.00pm local time on Wednesday 19 November. Sydney group stage tickets from $40, Perth group stage tickets from $43 Format<\/p>\n The fourth edition of United Cup will be held from Friday 2 January to Sunday 11 January 2026
\n Sunday 4 January (Day): Group E \u2013 Team Great Britain vs Team Japan
\n Sunday 4 January (Night): Group C \u2013 Team Italy vs Team Switzerland
\n Monday 5 January (Day): Group A \u2013 Team USA vs Team Spain
\n Monday 5 January (Night): Group E \u2013 Team Great Britain vs Team Greece\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Sunday 4 January (Night): Group B \u2013 Team Canada vs Team China
\n Monday 5 January (Night): Group F \u2013 Team Germany vs Team Poland
\n Tuesday 6 January (Day): Group B \u2013 Team Canada vs Team Belgium
\n Tuesday 6 January (Night): Group D \u2013 Team Australia vs Team Czechia<\/p>\n
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Singles matches are best-of-three tiebreak sets. Mixed doubles matches are two tiebreak sets with a deciding match tiebreak (10 points) at one set-all.
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In Perth, the day session will start at 10.00am and 5.00pm local time for the night session.
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In Sydney, the day session will begin at 10.30am and 5.30pm for the second session.
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Group winners in each city advance to the quarterfinals with one quarterfinal spot in each city awarded to the best runner up in that city.\u00a0
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Winners will progress to the semifinals and final to be played in Sydney.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Kids go free in Perth and Sydney on Saturday 3 January
\n Tickets for the United Cup quarterfinals, semifinals and final are already on sale
\n For more information please visit UnitedCup.com\/tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n The group stage in Perth (RAC Arena) runs from Friday 2 January to Tuesday 6 January. The quarterfinals in Perth will be held on Wednesday 7 January
\n The group stage in Sydney (Ken Rosewall Arena) runs from Saturday 3 January to Wednesday 7 January. The quarterfinals in Sydney will be held across Thursday 8 and Friday 9 January
\n Group winners in each city advance to the quarterfinals with one quarterfinal spot in each city awarded to the best runner up in that city
\n Winners will progress to the semifinals and final to be played in Sydney.
\n Sydney will host two semifinals on Saturday 10 January followed by the final of the United Cup from 5.30pm on Sunday 11 January
\n Teams travelling from Perth to Sydney will have a travel day and rest day before their semifinal matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The schedule for United Cup 2026 has been released ahead of tickets to the tournament\u2019s group stage going…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-290333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}