PREVIEW | 2025 Davis Cup Qualifiers
THE FIRST stage of the 2025 Davis Cup gets underway this week with 13 matches taking place to see the winning sides join Netherlands in the second round of the Qualifiers. Italy has already qualified for the Finals later in the year, with the reigning champions to await the seven teams who will win through […]
Gao-ing well – China upsets Brazil in United Cup
NO QINWEN Zheng, no worries as it turns out for China after world number 175 Xinyu Gao produced the biggest win of her career, downing Top 20 Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia to help guide her nation to victory at the United Cup last night. In the first of the night ties in Perth, Gao came […]
2025 United Cup: Group E preview
MISSING a couple of talents from making the group really interesting, reigning champions Germany looms as the obvious choice to advance through in Group E of the 2025 United Cup. Both Brazil and China have quality prospects, but no Next Gen ATP Finals winner in Brazilian Joao Fonseca or Chinese Olympic gold medallist Qinwen Zheng […]
Czech mate: Aussies win Davis Cup tie 3-0
AUSTRALIA has one foot in the knockout stages of the 2024 Davis Cup Finals after whitewashing Czech Republic 3-0 in the green and gold’s second group stage match overnight. Following on from a nail-biting 2-1 result against France, the Australians had it far easier against a wounded Czech side who once again saw Tomas Machac […]
Evans ties nation record as Brits beat Finland
GREAT Britain was able to rest two of its top stars and still get the job done against Finland on day two of the 2024 Davis Cup overnight. The passionate Manchester crowd got behind veteran Daniel Evans playing his 26th match in the blue, white and red, equalling the second most all-time record with Mike […]
2024 Davis Cup Finals preview: Group A
NEXT week the 2024 Davis Cup Finals kicks off with the round robin portion of the tournament and in the lead-up to the event, we preview each of the four groups. In today’s preview, we analyse Group A to see which of the four nations might advance to the knockout stage in November. NATIONS: 1st. […]
Iga and Hubi lead Poland to United Cup win
POLAND faces Switzerland to determine the Group B winner after the former took care of Kazakhstan in a 4-1 fashion over the last two days. Both Iga Swiatek and Hubert Hurkacz pulled double duty for the winners in the tie, as the European nation set up an effective elimination final to determine which nation advance […]
Sakkari sets Greece up for great win
GREECE is on the board officially in the 2022 United Cup, with a double-up performance from Maria Sakkari helping secure a 4-1 win over Bulgaria and open the tournament with a win. After leading 2-0 from the opening day, Sakkari won her individual singles match, then came back and got the job done alongside fellow […]
2022 United Cup preview: Group E
GROUP E continues our 2022 United Cup preview series, leading up the brand new event taking place across three Australian cities. Group A and Group F are in Perth, with Group B and Group E in Brisbane, and Group C and Group D are in Sydney. There are 18 teams battling it out for ultimate […]
