24-Country Field Set For Inaugural 2020 ATP Cup

The field is set for the inaugural ATP Cup, to be held from 3-12 January 2020 in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney. The final six countries — Bulgaria, Chile, Poland, Uruguay, Moldova and Norway — have qualified in the ATP Cup Standings to complete the 24-team field.

Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria), Cristian Garin (Chile), Hubert Hurkacz (Poland), Pablo Cuevas (Uruguay), Radu Albot (Moldova) and Casper Ruud (Norway) will lead their countries in the spectacular event that launches the 2020 ATP Tour season. The ATP Cup will feature nine members of the Top 10 in the ATP Rankings — including Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and Spain’s Rafael Nadal — and 26 of the Top 30 committed to play.

View Updated Standings, Qualified Teams & Committed Players

As the highest qualified country at the second entry deadline, Bulgaria will replace Switzerland and join Belgium and Great Britain in Group C in Sydney. The remaining five countries will be drawn into their groups/cities in a live ceremony on 14 November at 11am in Melbourne (midnight GMT, 7pm ET), hosted by Todd Woodbridge who will be joined by John Fitzgerald, on the ATP Cup’s Facebook page.

The group stages of the AU $22 million/US $15 million ATP Cup will be hosted in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney over six days. Eight countries will then compete at the Final Eight in Sydney that will feature quarter-finals over two days, semi-finals and a final. Each tie will comprise of two singles and one doubles match.

COUNTRIES & TOP 2 PLAYERS COMMITTED TO 2020 ATP CUP

No.	Country	No. 1 Player	No. 2 Player
1.	Serbia	Novak Djokovic	Dusan Lajovic
2.	Spain	Rafael Nadal	Roberto Bautista Agut
3.	Russia	Daniil Medvedev	Karen Khachanov
4.	Austria	Dominic Thiem	Dennis Novak
5.	Germany	Alexander Zverev	Jan-Lennard Struff
6.	Greece	Stefanos Tsitsipas	Michail Pervolarakis
7.	Japan	Kei Nishikori	Yoshihito Nishioka
8.	Italy	Matteo Berrettini	Fabio Fognini
9.	France	Gael Monfils	Lucas Pouille
10.	Belgium	David Goffin	Steve Darcis
11.	Croatia	Borna Coric	Marin Cilic
12.	Argentina	Diego Schwartzman	Guido Pella
13.	Georgia	Nikoloz Basilashvili	Aleksandre Metreveli
14.	South Africa	Kevin Anderson	Lloyd Harris
15.	United States	John Isner	Taylor Fritz
16.	Canada	Denis Shapovalov	Felix Auger-Aliassime
17.	Great Britain	Andy Murray	Daniel Evans
18.	Australia	Alex de Minaur	Nick Kyrgios
19.	Bulgaria	Grigor Dimitrov	Dimitar Kuzmanov
20.	Chile	Cristian Garin	Nicolas Jarry
21.	Poland	Hubert Hurkacz	Kamil Majchrzak
22.	Uruguay	Pablo Cuevas	Martin Cuevas
23.	Moldova	Radu Albot	Alexander Cozbinov
24.	Norway	Casper Ruud	Viktor Durasovic

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