{"id":480618,"date":"2025-12-30T18:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/480618\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T18:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:35:12","slug":"alex-de-minaur-alexander-zverev-victoria-mboko-among-stars-firing-up-in-sydney-ahead-of-united-cup-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/480618\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur, Alexander Zverev, Victoria Mboko among stars firing up in Sydney ahead of United Cup | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

United Cup
\n De Minaur, Zverev, Mboko among stars firing up in Sydney ahead of United Cup<\/p>\n

Felix hopes to maintain momentum, Hurkacz returning to action<\/p>\n

December 30, 2025<\/p>\n

\"Alex<\/p>\n

Andrew Eichenholz\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n

Alex de Minaur trains on Tuesday in Sydney ahead of the United Cup.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n

United Cup<\/a> action in Sydney does not begin until 3 January (2 January in Perth), but many of the biggest tennis stars in the world have been working hard at Sydney Olympic Park.<\/p>\n

Alex de Minaur<\/a> practised with fellow Sydneysider Aleksandar Vukic<\/a> Tuesday with Team Australia’s United Cup<\/a> captain Lleyton Hewitt<\/a> watching on. De Minaur has long enjoyed success at the mixed-teams event, where he has defeated Novak Djokovic<\/a> and Rafael Nadal<\/a> in the past.<\/p>\n

Another man he has beaten at the season-opening event is Alexander Zverev<\/a>, who is also on site and revving up for his 2026 season.<\/p>\n

\"<aAlexander Zverev practises Tuesday in Sydney ahead of the United Cup<\/a>.” style=”width:100%;” src=”https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/-\/media\/images\/news\/2025\/12\/30\/09\/27\/zverev-united-cup-2026-practice-tuesday.jpg?w=100%25″><\/p>\n

The two-time Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> champion led Germany to United Cup<\/a> glory in 2024 and will hope to do so again this year beginning with his country’s clash on Sunday against the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

\"VictoriaUnited Cup.” style=”width:100%;” src=”https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/-\/media\/images\/news\/2025\/12\/30\/09\/28\/mboko-united-cup-2026-practice-tuesday.jpg”><\/p>\n

Victoria Mboko is playing in the United Cup<\/a> for the first time, leading the way for Canada alongside Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"<aFelix Auger-Aliassime practises Tuesday in Sydney ahead of the United Cup<\/a>.” style=”width:100%;” src=”https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/-\/media\/images\/news\/2025\/12\/30\/09\/30\/auger-aliassime-united-cup-2026-practice-tuesday.jpg”><\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime ended his 2025 season playing some of the best tennis of his career, competing in the Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> for the second time. He is at a career-high No. 5 in the PIF ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n

\"<aCasper Ruud practises Tuesday in Sydney ahead of the United Cup<\/a>.” style=”width:100%;” src=”https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/-\/media\/images\/news\/2025\/12\/30\/09\/29\/ruud-united-cup-2026-practice-tuesday.jpg”><\/p>\n

Casper Ruud<\/a> has flown the flag for Norway since the inception of the event and will look to make a quick start to his campaign. The 27-year-old’s first match of the year will come Monday against Czechia’s Jakub Mensik<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"<aHubert Hurkacz practises Tuesday in Sydney ahead of the United Cup<\/a>.” style=”width:100%;” src=”https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/-\/media\/images\/news\/2025\/12\/30\/09\/31\/hurkacz-united-cup-2026-practice-tuesday.jpg”><\/p>\n

Hubert Hurkacz<\/a> has been waiting since June to step on court for an ATP Tour match after struggling with a knee injury. The Polish former World No. 6 again partners Iga Swiatek at the United Cup<\/a> after falling short in the championship match in two consecutive editions.<\/p>\n

\"MayaUnited Cup.” style=”width:100%;” src=”https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/-\/media\/images\/news\/2025\/12\/30\/09\/24\/joint-united-cup-2026.jpg”><\/p>\n

Maya Joint will try to help carry home hopes inside Ken Rosewall<\/a> Arena as Australia’s No. 1 WTA player. Joint trained with Mboko on Tuesday and will open her season Saturday against Norway’s Malene Helgo.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United Cup De Minaur, Zverev, Mboko among stars firing up in Sydney ahead of United Cup Felix hopes…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":480619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-480618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115809964943648346","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}