Rafa Jódar and Paula Badosa, Spain’s bet for the United Cup 2027

The 2026 season faces its final stretch with the WTA Finals, the ATP Finals and the Final 8 of the Davis Cup, although Some eyes are already set on 2027.

The next campaign will start, as usual, on Australian soil with the United Cup disputea mixed team tournament that this Wednesday announced its list of participants.

Spain will not miss the event and will be one of the candidates for the title, since it will present a competitive team led by Rafa Jódar and Paula Badosa. Joining them will be Nikolas Sánchez Izquierdo, Benjamín Winter, Leyre Romero and Yvonne Cavallé.

The Spanish team has been placed in group F, which will be played in Sydney, along with Belgiumwhich he will form with Alexander Blockx and Elise Mertens, and Argentina (Tomás Martín Etcheverry and Solana Sierra).

The tournament will also feature the presence of stars such as Coco Gauff, Linda Nosková, Ben SheltonUS Open finalist, Arthur Fils, Felix Auger-Alissime, Belinda Bencic, Stefanos TsitsipasFlavio Cobolli, Roland Garros finalist and the Polish Maja Chwalinska, Roland Garros finalist.

There will be 18 countries divided into six groups of three, with nine teams competing in Perth and another nine in Sydney.

Perth draw includes USA, Poland, Italy, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Croatia, Switzerland and Kazakhstan. The tournament will kick off at the RAC Arena on New Year’s Day, with group matches taking place from January 1-5, before the city hosts its quarter-finals on Wednesday, January 6.

Australia, Great Britain, Spain, Greece, France, Belgium, Czechia, Hungary and Argentina will be in Sydney. The Ken Rosewall Arena will host the first matches of the group stage starting on January 2, with the group stage concluding on January 6. The quarter-finals will take place on January 7 and 8, before the tournament reaches its exciting conclusion, with both semi-finals on Saturday, January 9 and the final on Sunday, January 10.

Each match consists of three best-of-three-set matches – a men’s singles, a women’s singles and a mixed doubles – ensuring that each player has a vital role to play. The three winners of each group in each city, along with the second-placed team with the best result, will advance to the quarterfinals.