United Cup Teams Announced

Countdown is on, with just 50 days to go before the mixed teams' event kicks off the 2026 season

TENNIS AUSTRALIA

Alex de Minaur will lead Australia into battle at the 2026 United Cup. By Press Release

Five of the world’s Top 10 men and four of the world’s Top 10 women are among the international tennis superstars to commit to United Cup 2026 after entries were revealed today.

From Friday 2 January to Sunday 11 January, 18 countries will feature for the fourth consecutive year, with teams seeing up to three men and up to three women join forces and compete side by side.

Two-time champions Team USA, led by world No.3 Coco Gauff and world No.6 Taylor Fritz, have been named as the top seeds in 2026, when they return to defend their title.

Six-time Grand Slam champion and world No.2 Iga Swiatek and Hubert Hurkacz lead Poland for the country’s fourth appearance.

World No.3 Alexander Zverev will spearhead Team Germany alongside newcomer Eva Lys, in pursuit of a second United Cup title.

Team Japan makes its debut at the event this summer with four-time Grand Slam champion and former world No.1 Naomi Osaka lining up with 2019 Junior Wimbledon champion Shintaro Mochizuki.

Italy will be guided by world No.8 and 2024 Roland Garros and Wimbledon finalist Jasmine Paolini and rising star Flavio Cobolli.

Team Great Britain unveils a fresh line-up featuring world No.10 Jack Draper and 2021 US Open champion Emma Raducanu.

Three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka will be Down Under alongside world No.11 Belinda Bencic for Team Switzerland.

Popular duo Stefanos Tsitsipas and Maria Sakkari, both former world No.3s, are back for Greece.

World No.8 Felix Auger-Aliassime and star on the rise Victoria Mboko will represent Team Canada.

Meanwhile, home-town favourites Australia will see world No.7 Alex de Minaur and the nation’s new top-ranked woman, world No.32 Maya Joint, play in the green and gold along with Jason Kubler, Maddison Inglis, former world No.1 doubles player Storm Hunter and John-Patrick Smith.

Other standout names competing in 2026 include Czechia’s Barbora Krejcikova and teammate Jakub Mensik – the youngest player in the world’s top 20 – plus world No.12 Casper Ruud for Norway and China’s Zhizhen Zhang and Zhu Lin.

LIST OF QUALIFIED COUNTRIES AND PLAYER ENTRY LIST

ATP

6

113

15*

USA

Taylor Fritz

Mackenzie McDonald

Christian Harrison

WTA

3

154

18*

Coco Gauff

Varvara Lepchenko

Nicole Melichar-Martinez

8

189

85*

CANADA

Felix Auger-Aliassime

Alexis Galarneau

Cleeve Harper

18

241

10*

Victoria Mboko

Kayla Cross

Gabriela Dabrowski

22

140

14*

ITALY

Flavio Cobolli

Andrea Pellegrino

Andrea Vavassori

8

152

3*

Jasmine Paolini

Nuria Brancaccio

Sara Errani

7

190

45*

AUSTRALIA

Alex de Minaur

Jason Kubler

John-Patrick Smith

32

175

P3*

Maya Joint

Maddison Inglis

Storm Hunter

10

124

1*

GREAT BRITAIN

Jack Draper

Billy Harris

Lloyd Glasspool

29

257

26*

Emma Raducanu

Mingge Xu

Olivia Nicholls

3

246

11*

GERMANY

Alexander Zverev

Patrick Zahraj

Kevin Krawietz

40

46

465

Eva Lys

Laura Siegemund

Mina Hodzic

43

205

49*

BELGIUM

Zizou Bergs

Kimmer Coppejans

Sander Gille

20

122

P110*

Elise Mertens

Greet Minnen

Lara Salden

29

254

17*

FRANCE

Arthur Rinderknech

Geoffrey Blancaneaux

Edouard Roger-Vasselin

36

106

123

Lois Boisson

Leolia Jeanjean

Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah

P47

257

34*

POLAND

Hubert Hurkacz

Daniel Michalski

Jan Zielinski

2

124

59*

Iga Swiatek

Katarzyna Kawa

Katarzyna Piter

36

104

103*

SPAIN

Jaume Munar

Carlos Taberner

Inigo Cervantes

42

182

107*

Jessica Bouzas Maneiro

Andrea Lazaro Garcia

Yvonne Cavalle-Reimers

19

86

53*

CZECHIA

Jakub Mensik

Dalibor Svrcina

Adam Pavlasek

P10

137

66*

Barbora Krejcikova

Linda Fruhvirtova

Miriam Skoch

34

276

219*

GREECE

Stefanos Tsitsipas

Stefanos Sakellaridis

Petros Tsitsipas

52

172

143*

Maria Sakkari

Despina Papamichail

Sapfo Sakellaridi

92

306

JAPAN

Shintaro Mochizuki

Yasutaka Uchiyama

16

186

Naomi Osaka

Nao Hibino

45

136

33*

ARGENTINA

Sebastian Baez

Marco Trungelliti

Guido Andreozzi

66

128

110*

Solana Sierra

Maria Lourdes Carle

Nicole Fossa Huergo

25

161

29*

NETHERLANDS

Tallon Griekspoor

Guy Den Ouden

David Pel

87

235

21*

Suzan Lamens

Eva Vedder

Demi Schuurs

157

328

402

SWITZERLAND

Stan Wawrinka

Jakub Paul

Luca Castelnuovo

11

266

155*

Belinda Bencic

Celine Naef

Naima Karamoko

12

243

NORWAY

Casper Ruud

Viktor Durasovic

478

804

38*

Malene Helgo

Astrid Brune Olsen

Ulrikke Eikeri

P60

663

247*

CHINA

Zhizhen Zhang

Rigele Te

Aoran Wang

P50

285

Zhu Lin

Xiaodi You

P= Protected ranking, J= Junior ranking, *= Doubles ranking

“The entry list for the United Cup this summer is world class. We’re excited to welcome five of the world’s top 10 men and four of the world’s top 10 women in 2026,” United Cup Tournament Director Stephen Farrow said.

“The United Cup holds a unique position in global tennis, with the world’s best men and women committed to play in mixed teams and showcase equality in the sport.

“We look forward to the official draw next Monday to determine where our 18 countries will play across Perth and Sydney.

“It will be fascinating to see where the likes of Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff, Alexander Zverev, Alex de Minaur, Taylor Fritz and Jasmine Paolini end up competing.

“With AO 2019 and 2021 champion Naomi Osaka also leading Team Japan in its United Cup debut, the star power in 2026 is undeniable.

“Add to that Jack Draper and Emma Raducanu for Great Britain, and Stan Wawrinka and Belinda Bencic for Team Switzerland, and fans in both cities are in for an absolute treat.”

Participation is subject to players committing to the event by the tournament’s entry deadline of 11 November.

At the entry deadline, 10 countries qualify for the United Cup via the five highest-ranked men and five highest-ranked women entered, based on their PIF ATP and WTA rankings.

Eight teams qualify according to the best combined ranking of the highest-ranked men’s and women’s players from the same country.

Seeding for the event is based on the combined ranking of the top ATP and top WTA players using the ranking as of Monday 10 November.

The official draw will be held on Monday 17 November. Countries will be drawn into six groups of three countries across Perth and Sydney.

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