TV GUIDE: How to watch 2024 UNITED CUP as season opens featuring Novak DJOKOVIC and Iga SWIATEK

Tennis players and fans are counting down the days until the start of the 2024 season. The year will kick off with a mixed tournament in the 2024 United Cup between December 29 - January 7, a competitive exhibition between countries featuring some of the world's best tennis players, including both world No. 1s Iga Swiatek and Novak Djokovic.

It's not often that countries have both male and female representatives together. Some of the favorites include the Polish duo Swiatek and Hubert Hurkacz, the Greek pair Maria Sakkari and Stefanos Tsitsipas, as well as the Canadian team of Leylah Fernandez and Felix Auger-Aliassime.

Eighteen nations will participate in a round-robin format with six groups of three countries each. Three groups will compete in Perth (A, C, and E), and the other three in Sydney (B, D, and F), with the latter city hosting the final stage, including the semifinals and final. Each series will feature a men's and women's singles match, as well as mixed doubles, with the team winning two matches taking the victory.

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Advancing to the quarterfinals will be the winners of each of the six groups, along with the two best second-placed teams, determined based on eliminations, matches, and sets won. There will be both day and night sessions every day, except for the final, which will be played in a night session on Sunday, January 7.

Viewers from the following countries can catch the action live on their respective channels and sites:

Tennis Channel: Puerto Rico, USA, US Virgin Islands, American Samoa & Northern Marianas

Tennis Channel International: Austria, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom & India

beIN Sports: Middle East, Africa & Asia-Pacific & Oceania

TSN & RDS: Canada

United Cup YouTube: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka & Israel

Nine: Australia

Digicel: Polynesia, Futana, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu & Wallis

Sportcast: Taiwan

Flow Sports: Caribbean

A1 Max Sport: Bulgaria

DigiSport: Romania

ERT: Greece

Polsat Sport: Poland

Sport TV: Portugal

SportKlub: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia & Slovenia

Super Tennis: Italy, San Marino & Vatican City

Viaplay: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway & Sweden

Claro Sports: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay & Venezuela.