December 7, 2023 • 6 mins
The United Cup is coming to Perth in January and tournament director Stephen Farrow told Clairsy all about it and who some of the big names are that are playing in it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The United Cup. We've been talking about it a lot
over the last week or so. It's in Perth from
December twenty nine to January third. Tickets are through ticket Tech.
The United Cup tournament director Stephen Farrow is joining us now.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hello Steven, Hello, pleasure to be here. Thanks for having
me for coming.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
So the United Cup. Who's coming to Perth.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
For it is an unbelievable lineup in Perth. We're really
excited about the players we've got coming here, headlined by
Novak Djokovic with the Serbian team, twenty four time Grand
Slim champion, probably the greatest player ever to play the game.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So to have Novak kids amazing.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
But we've also got the women's world number one Eagles
Filontech of Poland. We've got the defending champions from the
United States, Jess Pagula and Taylor Fritz, and we've got
the Australian team as well. I mean, there are so
many big names coming here. It's going to be an
absolutely thrilling week of tennis.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It is amazing.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I'm always amazed when you've got you know, the women's
number one, you've got Joker here at a time where
you could forgive them for perhaps wanting to be at home.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
So it says a lot out the draw it it does.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I mean, ultimately, these players want to start competing at
the beginning of the year, the Australian Open coming up.
They want really high quality matches as soon as possible,
and the United Cup definitely provides that for them. But
this competition is also really special one for them because
they get to compete as part of a team and
to be able to compete with the men alongside the women.
I mean that's something that they wouldn't have done probably
since they were quite young before they hit the professional ranks.
(01:24):
And the players do love that, and they do love
to compete for their country, and they also do love
coming to Perth. I mean, obviously this city is the
has such a strong history of international bigs teams tennis
with the Hotman Cup, and there's a lot of players
who played that event who were really excited to come back.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Novak being one of them.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
He wants a Quacker selfie, of course he does still
does the best that has come up in conversations of
all the Crocker selfies, his is still the best.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
The Junker over there.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
So it was going to the next tent. But I'll
tell you what, man, you talk about the players loving
and coming to Perth and loving their game. The fans
here are real tennis for Shionados, aren't they fans?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I persist, Of course they are.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
And as I said, there's such a long legacy of
top level tenets here in this city and of top
players coming to play here. And the reaction that we've
had since we did the drawer and obviously everyone learned
who was going to come and play in the event
here has been really really positive.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I mean, the tickets are going really really well.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Starts at twenty dollars for kids, forty dollars for adults,
so it's a good price point as well to come
and see really have that opportunity to see some of
the greatest players who will ever play the game here
in Perth. So it's tremendously exciting.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
One thing it's a bit different about this is the
way it's split over two cities. Can you explain that
the Perth Sydney split of the Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
So we've got we've got eighteen teams, eighteen national teams.
There's nine in Sydney, there's nine in Perth, and they
playing three groups of three and then we have two
quarter finals in each city, which is the group winners
plus the next best team. So what that means is
that well here in Perth on the third of January,
we'll have the two quarter finals and the winners of
those quarter finals then go on to Sydney to play
(03:00):
in the semi finals in the final of the United Cup.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Very good mate.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
This time next week we'll be sitting at the Broken
Hill Hotel in vic Park and giving away an incredible prize.
It's an eight person box at the quarterfinal of this
and we talk about all the trimmings. People will be
looked after and a beck stage. We'ld call it a
backstage tour. Let's be honest, be going behind the scenes
is just one of those things that money can't buy.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Absolutely, I'm sure I'll be involved in that as well.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Very very excited to take who every Winter's competition ran,
to see where all the players go and everything that
goes on to put such a great event like this together.
And for those quarter finals, if you think about who
you might see in those quarter finals, you're going to
see one of Serbia or Poland, or you'll see the
Alex demonoor and lead the Australian team. I mean, there
are so many great teams. That is a it's a
(03:48):
great prize. I'm biased, but it's a great.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Tell us about the court side box itself. I mean
it is court side. It close enough you might get
hit in the head with the ball, yes, you would
need to watch out. Absolutely, it's the best view in
the house. Obviously, ra A c Arena is incredible.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I mean it's one of the ve best arenas in
the tree for tennis as well outside Melbourne with Rod
Laver Arena's right up there and the players love playing
there and it is wherever you sit, it's a great view.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
But certainly in that box it's extremely special.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
And it's got all the trimmers. You just sit there
and say more everything.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
More food A right there only steps away from Wellington Street.
You've got that practice card or demo coll what if
you want to call it out there and it makes
you think about tennis all year around when you walk
or drive past it.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah, it's really it's really cool and obviously it's great.
As you said, I mean it really sort of brings
the tennis out into the city. People coming by can
see the players warm up and practice and that court
has used a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
All the players who will end.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Up playing on the r C Arena will tend to
go there to hit a few balls, so you'll see
all the top players there as well.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So it's really good. That's a real festival, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
In a way?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Now I have to ask you this, Stephen, does Wa
based number one doubles player Storm Hunter have the tennis.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Name ever heard in your life? Storm Hunter?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
She certainly did. I would be extremely court against Storm.
Storm has had an unbelievable year. I think everyone involved
with Australians and it should be extremely proud of what
she has achieved to end the year. Is the world
doubles number one is some magnificent achievement and how cool
is it to have in the Australian team not just
Storms as the doubles women's doubles number one world Matt
(05:26):
Ebden as well is another Perth Yeah. Absolutely, guy again,
I mean what is it? He's number four in the world.
He's a former Grand Slam championship. So to have two
Perth locals in the Australian team and playing at that level,
it's really really cool.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It's going to be great to have those guys here as.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Well, have Storm Hunter and Title Hunter. She's either a gladiator, yeah,
or she's a wrestling or it's part of a show
on the Discovery Channel. Yeah, absolute star. This is very exciting,
not just for perfect I would imagine you guys and
you had some stuff. What happens at the State Tennisee
and the opposite of the stadium is that for practice
as well over there.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, it's where we do the practice for all the players,
and so we're busy setting that up already. Players will
be arriving around Christmas time to get ready to go
underwear in the twenty.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Ninth to December.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
There's obviously a lot that goes on involved behind the
scenes and to put an event like this on, and
particularly when we're operating across two cities a long way
apart from each other as well, to try and make
that experience as special as possible. So the work goes
on all year round, but yeah, we're looking to create
a special atmosphere everywhere the players will be during that time.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Well, as we said, it's a real festival of tennis.
The United Cup from December twenty nine to January three
tickets through tic Tech. Stephen Farrow, thank you so much
for joining us and we really look forward to giving
this great prize away.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Thank you very much,
The United Cup. We've been talking about it a lot
over the last week or so. It's in Perth from
December twenty nine to January third. Tickets are through ticket Tech.
The United Cup tournament director Stephen Farrow is joining us now.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hello Steven, Hello, pleasure to be here. Thanks for having
me for coming.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
So the United Cup. Who's coming to Perth.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
For it is an unbelievable lineup in Perth. We're really
excited about the players we've got coming here, headlined by
Novak Djokovic with the Serbian team, twenty four time Grand
Slim champion, probably the greatest player ever to play the game.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So to have Novak kids amazing.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
But we've also got the women's world number one Eagles
Filontech of Poland. We've got the defending champions from the
United States, Jess Pagula and Taylor Fritz, and we've got
the Australian team as well. I mean, there are so
many big names coming here. It's going to be an
absolutely thrilling week of tennis.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It is amazing.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I'm always amazed when you've got you know, the women's
number one, you've got Joker here at a time where
you could forgive them for perhaps wanting to be at home.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
So it says a lot out the draw it it does.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I mean, ultimately, these players want to start competing at
the beginning of the year, the Australian Open coming up.
They want really high quality matches as soon as possible,
and the United Cup definitely provides that for them. But
this competition is also really special one for them because
they get to compete as part of a team and
to be able to compete with the men alongside the women.
I mean that's something that they wouldn't have done probably
since they were quite young before they hit the professional ranks.
(01:24):
And the players do love that, and they do love
to compete for their country, and they also do love
coming to Perth. I mean, obviously this city is the
has such a strong history of international bigs teams tennis
with the Hotman Cup, and there's a lot of players
who played that event who were really excited to come back.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Novak being one of them.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
He wants a Quacker selfie, of course he does still
does the best that has come up in conversations of
all the Crocker selfies, his is still the best.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
The Junker over there.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
So it was going to the next tent. But I'll
tell you what, man, you talk about the players loving
and coming to Perth and loving their game. The fans
here are real tennis for Shionados, aren't they fans?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I persist, Of course they are.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
And as I said, there's such a long legacy of
top level tenets here in this city and of top
players coming to play here. And the reaction that we've
had since we did the drawer and obviously everyone learned
who was going to come and play in the event
here has been really really positive.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I mean, the tickets are going really really well.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Starts at twenty dollars for kids, forty dollars for adults,
so it's a good price point as well to come
and see really have that opportunity to see some of
the greatest players who will ever play the game here
in Perth. So it's tremendously exciting.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
One thing it's a bit different about this is the
way it's split over two cities. Can you explain that
the Perth Sydney split of the Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
So we've got we've got eighteen teams, eighteen national teams.
There's nine in Sydney, there's nine in Perth, and they
playing three groups of three and then we have two
quarter finals in each city, which is the group winners
plus the next best team. So what that means is
that well here in Perth on the third of January,
we'll have the two quarter finals and the winners of
those quarter finals then go on to Sydney to play
(03:00):
in the semi finals in the final of the United Cup.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Very good mate.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
This time next week we'll be sitting at the Broken
Hill Hotel in vic Park and giving away an incredible prize.
It's an eight person box at the quarterfinal of this
and we talk about all the trimmings. People will be
looked after and a beck stage. We'ld call it a
backstage tour. Let's be honest, be going behind the scenes
is just one of those things that money can't buy.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Absolutely, I'm sure I'll be involved in that as well.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Very very excited to take who every Winter's competition ran,
to see where all the players go and everything that
goes on to put such a great event like this together.
And for those quarter finals, if you think about who
you might see in those quarter finals, you're going to
see one of Serbia or Poland, or you'll see the
Alex demonoor and lead the Australian team. I mean, there
are so many great teams. That is a it's a
(03:48):
great prize. I'm biased, but it's a great.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Tell us about the court side box itself. I mean
it is court side. It close enough you might get
hit in the head with the ball, yes, you would
need to watch out. Absolutely, it's the best view in
the house. Obviously, ra A c Arena is incredible.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I mean it's one of the ve best arenas in
the tree for tennis as well outside Melbourne with Rod
Laver Arena's right up there and the players love playing
there and it is wherever you sit, it's a great view.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
But certainly in that box it's extremely special.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
And it's got all the trimmers. You just sit there
and say more everything.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
More food A right there only steps away from Wellington Street.
You've got that practice card or demo coll what if
you want to call it out there and it makes
you think about tennis all year around when you walk
or drive past it.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah, it's really it's really cool and obviously it's great.
As you said, I mean it really sort of brings
the tennis out into the city. People coming by can
see the players warm up and practice and that court
has used a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
All the players who will end.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Up playing on the r C Arena will tend to
go there to hit a few balls, so you'll see
all the top players there as well.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So it's really good. That's a real festival, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
In a way?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Now I have to ask you this, Stephen, does Wa
based number one doubles player Storm Hunter have the tennis.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Name ever heard in your life? Storm Hunter?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
She certainly did. I would be extremely court against Storm.
Storm has had an unbelievable year. I think everyone involved
with Australians and it should be extremely proud of what
she has achieved to end the year. Is the world
doubles number one is some magnificent achievement and how cool
is it to have in the Australian team not just
Storms as the doubles women's doubles number one world Matt
(05:26):
Ebden as well is another Perth Yeah. Absolutely, guy again,
I mean what is it? He's number four in the world.
He's a former Grand Slam championship. So to have two
Perth locals in the Australian team and playing at that level,
it's really really cool.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It's going to be great to have those guys here as.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Well, have Storm Hunter and Title Hunter. She's either a gladiator, yeah,
or she's a wrestling or it's part of a show
on the Discovery Channel. Yeah, absolute star. This is very exciting,
not just for perfect I would imagine you guys and
you had some stuff. What happens at the State Tennisee
and the opposite of the stadium is that for practice
as well over there.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, it's where we do the practice for all the players,
and so we're busy setting that up already. Players will
be arriving around Christmas time to get ready to go
underwear in the twenty.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Ninth to December.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
There's obviously a lot that goes on involved behind the
scenes and to put an event like this on, and
particularly when we're operating across two cities a long way
apart from each other as well, to try and make
that experience as special as possible. So the work goes
on all year round, but yeah, we're looking to create
a special atmosphere everywhere the players will be during that time.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Well, as we said, it's a real festival of tennis.
The United Cup from December twenty nine to January three
tickets through tic Tech. Stephen Farrow, thank you so much
for joining us and we really look forward to giving
this great prize away.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Thank you very much,
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