Tennis Channel lays out 2024-25 United Cup tournament schedule
Tennis Channel lays out 2024-25 United Cup tournament schedule
The tournament provides one last chance to see big-name tennis stars before the 2025 season begins!
Tennis fans will have one more chance to see stars like Coco Gauff in 2024. The Tennis Channel has announced its coverage plans for the 2024-25 United Cup, a tournament taking place in Sydney and Perth, Australia starting Thursday, Dec. 26. The United Cup will feature some of the best players in the world, and you can watch the entire tournament exclusively on the Tennis Channel or its new streaming service.
Key Details:
- The United Cup features competitors from 18 countries, split into six groups of three players each.
- Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz lead the top-seeded United States team.
- The tournament runs Dec. 26 through Jan. 5, with daily coverage starting around 6:30 p.m. ET most days.
The United Cup will see tennis stars from 18 countries around the world, split into six groups of three players each competing against the other. In addition to the United States, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Kazakhstan, Norway, Poland, Spain, and Switzerland will be competing.
Coco Gauff, Taylor Fritz, and Danielle Collins will lead the top-seeded United States team along with Desirae Krawczyk, Denis Kudla, and Robert Galloway in the United Cup. Other highly-ranked stars competing in the tournament include ga Swiatek (Poland), Alexander Zverev (Germany), Jasmine Paolini (Italy), Casper Ruud (Norway), Qinwin Zheng (China), Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan), and Alex de Minaur (Australia).
Every team will face each of the others in its group. The six group winners and two best second-place finishers will then move on to a single-elimination quarterfinal round. Every matchup features a men’s singles, women’s singles, and mixed-doubles contest, each worth one point. The country that wins two points wins the head-to-head competition.
The Tennis Channel’s coverage of the 2024-25 United Cup will generally begin at 6:30 p.m. ET every day, but customers who get the channel with their pay-TV package or subscribe to Tennis Channel’s direct-to-consumer service can click here for a full viewing schedule.
The tournament starts on Thursday, Dec. 26, and continues through Jan. 5. The cheapest way to stream the Tennis Channel is with a subscription to Sling TV; this streamer costs $46 per month (starting Dec. 20), and viewers will need the Sports Extra add-on pack to get Tennis Channel for another $11 on top of the base price.
Sling TV
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