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Kennykoalabear · Lower Club Player

United Cup 2026

LordBrownof · Challenger qualifying

I love this. I miss the original Hopman Cup but this will do, providing they are both fit for it.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Teams announced today and GB team is

Jack Draper
Billy Harris
Lloyd Glasspool
Emma Raducanu
Mingge Xu
Olivia Nicholls

Good to see Mimi in there, good experience for her!

seagull · Tennis legend

We have drawn Japan and Greece..Think thats pretty good isn't it?

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:
We have drawn Japan and Greece..Think thats pretty good isn't it?

Whats the format, 2 singles and a mixed? I'd say that is not bad at all really.

The two teams squads are:

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

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Monday 17th of November 2025 02:44:21 PM

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Monday 17th of November 2025 02:44:37 PM

Lambda · Top national player

Fr om United cup social media
Team GB Updates: Billy Harris moves into the #1 men's spot, Neal Skupski in for Lloyd Glasspool and Katie Swan in for Mingge Xu.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

United Cup can be watched live on Amazon. Not sure if you need to subscribe to Prime to watch though. Go to Amazon.... "Live TV"

Osaka v Sakkari on currently.

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Friday 2nd of January 2026 09:48:03 AM

Lambda · Top national player

Julia Carrot wrote:
United Cup can be watched live on Amazon. Not sure if you need to subscribe to Prime to watch though. Go to Amazon.... "Live TV"
Osaka v Sakkari on currently.

Its a Tennis Channel broadcast so can be viewed for free on any platform that includes the Tennis Channel FAST channel (not the app), which includes Amazon Freevee, LG TV, and Samsung TV Plus

seagull · Tennis legend

Sakkari easily beating Osaka is interesting

wolf · Tennis legend

Nominated line ups for tomorrow 2am UK time

GBR vs Japan

Match 1: Billy Harris WR 128 vs Shintaro Mochizuki (JPN) WR 99

Match 2: Emma Radacanu WR 29 vs Naomi Osaka (JPN) WR 16

Match 3: Olivia Nicholls & Neal Skupski CR 35 (26+9) vs Nao Hibino & Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN/JPN) UNR (315+UNR)

Julia Carrot · All-time great

What a pain for us that it's the middle of the night, but maybe will suit our players - the timing.

Peter too · Tennis legend

I looked everywhere for a United Cup thread before posting on the women's page. Somehow I must have missed it.

-- Edited by Peter too on Saturday 3rd of January 2026 04:48:34 PM

foobarbaz · Club Coach

wolf wrote:
Nominated line ups for tomorrow 2am UK time

GBR vs Japan

Match 1: Billy Harris WR 128 vs Shintaro Mochizuki (JPN) WR 99

Match 2: Emma Radacanu WR 29 vs Naomi Osaka (JPN) WR 16

Match 3: Olivia Nicholls & Neal Skupski CR 35 (26+9) vs Nao Hibino & Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN/JPN) UNR (315+UNR)

Match 2 : Swan in, Raducanu out.

LordBrownof · Challenger qualifying

No word on Emma's injury but great experience for Katie. Naomi lost her last match but apparently had been unwell just before.

LordBrownof · Challenger qualifying

PS- just for completeness, Jan Choinski is there and the backup for Billy.

-- Edited by LordBrownof on Sunday 4th of January 2026 01:58:43 AM