Last Updated: October 20, 2023, 03:30 IST
SYDNEY: Novak Djokovic and Iga Swiatek will headline the brand new-look United Cup blended team event in Perth and Sydney from Dec. 29 to Jan. 7 as one of the important thing heat-up tournaments for the Australian Open.
Team Poland, led by world No. 2 and 4-time Grand Slam champion Swiatek and Hubert Hurkacz, has been named as the highest seed for the 2024 version after the entries from the highest 16 nations had been launched by Tennis Australia on Friday.
Stefanos Tsitsipas and Maria Sakkari will lead No.2-seeded Greece, with the defending champion United States, that includes Jessica Pegula and Taylor Fritz, seeded third. France, the No. 4 seed, will probably be led by Caroline Garcia and Adrian Mannarino.
Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova will headline the Czech Republic team alongside Jiri Lehecka whereas Croatia rounds out the highest six, that includes Borna Coric and Donna Vekic.
Four nations will make their debut in 2024.
Serbia, led by Djokovic and Olga Danilovic, and Canada, that includes Felix Auger-Aliassime and Leylah Fernandez, will compete for the primary time. China’s Qinwen Zheng and Zhizhen Zhang and the Netherlands’ Tallon Griekspoor and Arantxa Rus may also make their debuts.
Other entries embody Norway’s Casper Ruud, Germany’s Alexander Zverev and Angelique Kerber and Britain’s Cameron Norrie.
Each tie will consist of males’s singles, ladies’s singles and blended doubles.
The Australian Open is scheduled for Melbourne Park from Jan. 14-28.
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