{"id":399897,"date":"2026-01-10T21:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399897\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T21:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:19:15","slug":"poland-beats-u-s-in-doubles-decider-to-reach-united-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399897\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland beats U.S. in doubles decider to reach United Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan 10, 2026, 08:56 AM ET<\/p>\n

SYDNEY — Poland reached the United Cup final after Katarzyna Kawa<\/a> and Jan Zielinski<\/a> beat Coco Gauff<\/a> and Christian Harrison<\/a> 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3) in a mixed doubles decider.<\/p>\n

Poland will face Switzerland in Sunday’s final.<\/p>\n

Kawa and Zielinski were decisive once again, having won the mixed doubles decider in the quarterfinals against Australia. Six-time Grand Slam singles champion Iga \u015awi\u0105tek<\/a> rushed over to join the celebration.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Gauff beat the No. 2-ranked \u015awi\u0105tek 6-4, 6-2 to force the decider.<\/p>\n

Fourth-ranked Gauff, the French Open champion, evened the matchup at 1-1 after Hubert Hurkacz<\/a> beat Taylor Fritz<\/a> 7-6 (1), 7-6 (2) in the singles opener at Ken Rosewall Arena. It was Gauff’s fourth straight victory over \u015awi\u0105tek, the Wimbledon champion.<\/p>\n

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The Swiss advanced when Belinda Bencic<\/a> combined with Jakub Paul<\/a> in the deciding mixed doubles to defeat Belgium’s Elise Mertens<\/a> and Zizou Bergs<\/a> 6-3, 0-6, 10-5.<\/p>\n

Tournament organizers started play 30 minutes earlier than scheduled with searing temperatures of up to 109 Fahrenheit in the forecast for Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 10, 2026, 08:56 AM ET SYDNEY — Poland reached the United Cup final after Katarzyna Kawa and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-399897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}