Rafael Nadal and Paula Badosa They led the Spanish team to attend the United Cup, a mixed team tournament sponsored by the host, Australia, and officially labeled by the ATP and WTA, where they will distribute points for the world ranking. From December 29 to January 8, the new formula will unfold on the calendar, with the Australian Open on the horizon.
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Participants
The eighteen competing teams are ranked in order of the men’s and women’s world rankings of registered tennis players: the top six based on the ranking of their best ATP male player. Another six related to his No. 1 female ranking. The other six, by the combined ATP and WTA rankings of the players shown. He has a safe place, in any case, Australia.
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The teams
A maximum of eight crew, four women and four men, and a captain
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Players
As in the ATP and WTA circuits, entries are determined by registration and ranking. It does not decide a captain, as in Davis or the Billie Jean King Cup.
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The competition system
There are six groups of three teams each. The champions, after the group, will meet in a qualifying round, where the three winners and the best of the losers will access the final to 4 (semis and final), in Sydney from January 6 to 8.
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the playoffs
Each individual consists of three sets with a ‘tiebreak’ if it reaches 6-6. Mixed doubles has a supertiebreak at best of 10 points if there is a third set.
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the sets
Each individual consists of three sets with a ‘tiebreak’ if it reaches 6-6. Mixed doubles has a supertiebreak at best of 10 points if there is a third set. Each part can be counted in case of possible correlations
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world ranking points
The maximum a tennis player can add is 500 points, which are distributed based on the opponent’s ranking in each match and the round played. Losing, for example, a @ top-10 means 55 points, 80 more ‘bonus’ for each team member who qualified as first in the group, 130 for victory in the semifinal and 180 in the final. If the opponent is between 11 and 20 of the ATP or WTA rankings, the scales are 45, 65, 105 and 140 points.
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The economic rewards
The United Cup will distribute 15 million US dollars, more than 14 euros. They will be split equally, 7.5 and 7.5, between ATP and WTA tennis players. The money that each individual tennis player receives from a team will be based on three concepts: adjusted for participation, for the overall success of the team and for matches won by the individual.
A top 10 player who starts as their team’s number 1 is guaranteed a prize for participation of $200,000, half if it is a top-20 or if they are top-10 but start as their team’s number 2. As a lower number, from a starting 20,000 for a tennis player not in the world top-250 to 5,000 for a No. 4 teams not in the top-250.
A match won could mean $251,000 for the No. 1 player on the team like Rafa Nadal and Paula Badosa or $169,200 in the case of No. 2 Pablo Carreño and Nuria Parrizas.
At the overall team level: $5,000 per tie winner, bonus $8,025 for finishing group leader, $13,640 for victory in the semifinals and another $23,155 for the champion.
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The venues
It will be played outdoors at the Sydney Olympic Park and at the Queensland Tennis Center in Brisbane. Indoors, at the RAC Arena in Perth. In all three cases on a hard surface, the same as the Australian Open, in Melbourne from January 16 to 29. Dunlop Australian Open balls will be used
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A place on the calendar
The ATP Cup dates are required by the men’s countries, which will disappear once the ATP enters the Executive Committee of the Davis Cup, having reached an agreement with Gerard Piqué’s Kosmos company and the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The Hopman Cup formula already exists for mixed teams, a competition that is maintained but travels to Europe (Nice) and moves to the month of July.
The United Cup is sponsored by Tennis Australia (TA), the country’s federation, the ATP, which governs the men’s professional circuit, and the WTA, which governs the women’s circuit.
Source: La Verdad
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