{"id":27766,"date":"2025-11-17T09:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27766"},"modified":"2025-11-17T09:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:04:05","slug":"gauff-led-holders-usa-to-face-spain-argentina-at-united-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27766","title":{"rendered":"Gauff-led holders USA to face Spain, Argentina at United Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"
Top seeds and two-time champions the United States, spearheaded by Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz, were drawn Monday alongside Spain and Argentina for their defence of the mixed-teams United Cup in Australia.<\/p>\n

Gauff and Fritz, ranked three and six in the world respectively, begin their 2026 season in Perth at the fourth edition of the tournament from January 2-11 ahead of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park later in the month.<\/p>\n

Spain are led by Juame Munar and Jessica Bouzas Maneiro.<\/p>\n

World number one Carlos Alcaraz has opted instead to play an exhibition match in South Korea against Jannik Sinner in preparation for the season-opening Grand Slam.<\/p>\n

Four-time major winner Naomi Osaka will also start her campaign in Perth, lining up for Japan with 2019 junior Wimbledon champion Shintaro Mochizuki.<\/p>\n

They were drawn in a tough group alongside Britain, headlined by Jack Draper and Emma Raducanu, and a Greek team featuring Stefanos Tsitsipas and\u00a0 Maria Sakkari.<\/p>\n

Italy, France and Switzerland round out the Perth groupings.<\/p>\n

World number two Iga Swiatek and Hubert Hurkacz lead Poland’s quest for revenge after being beaten by Team USA in the final in 2025 and Germany a year earlier.<\/p>\n

They start in Sydney, pitted against Alexander Zverev’s Germany and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Alex de Minaur and Australia are in Group D with Casper Ruud’s Norway and a Czech Republic team boasting the fast-rising Jakub Mensik.<\/p>\n

Canada, Belgium and China round out the Sydney action.<\/p>\n

Each team — with three men and three women — will play in a round-robin group stage.<\/p>\n

Ties comprise one men’s and one women’s singles and a mixed-doubles.<\/p>\n

Group winners in each city advance to the quarter-finals, along with the best runner-up.<\/p>\n

The semi-finals and final are in Sydney with US$11 million in prize money and ATP and WTA ranking points at stake.<\/p>\n

Draw for the 2026 United Cup:<\/p>\n

Perth<\/p>\n

Group A – USA, Spain, Argentina<\/p>\n

Group C – Italy, France, Switzerland<\/p>\n

Group E – Britain, Greece, Japan<\/p>\n

Sydney<\/p>\n

Group B – Canada, Belgium. China<\/p>\n

Group D – Australia, Czech Republic, Norway<\/p>\n

Group F – Germany, Poland, Netherlands<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Top seeds and two-time champions the United States, spearheaded by Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz, were drawn Monday alongside Spain and Argentina for their defence of the mixed-teams United Cup in Australia. Gauff and Fritz, ranked three and six in the world respectively, begin their 2026 season in Perth at the fourth edition of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}