United Cup - The best matches of the group stage

Tennis is finally getting ready to resume. The season officially resumes this Saturday, December 28.

As has been the case for the past two years, the United Cup, the mixed team competition that awards ATP and WTA points, will kick off the 11 months of competition.

Bringing together 18 nations, the event kicks off with the group phase (6 groups of three countries) before moving on to the final phase, where the top 6 players in each group and the two best runners-up will compete.

Now that the schedule for the group stages has been revealed, we know which matches will take place, and some of the clashes will be particularly intriguing.

On the men's side, the Hubert Hurkacz / Casper Ruud, Flavio Cobolli / Ugo Humbert, Taylor Fritz / Félix Auger-Aliassime and Stefanos Tsitsipas / Pablo Carreno Busta are all on the bill.

On the women's side, there are also a number of intriguing matches. These include Iga Swiatek versus Karolina Muchova, Jasmine Paolini versus Belinda Bencic, Coco Gauff versus Leylah Fernandez and Maria Sakkari versus Elena Rybakina.