Novak Djokovic to start 2024 season by playing in United Cup for Serbia

The World No.1 will end the season by taking part in ATP Tour finals in November.

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic is a last-minute addition to the Serbian team at the 2024 United Cup. The second edition of the United Cup will kick-off in Perth, Australia. This is a mixed team event with 18 countries scheduled to participate. Sydney and Perth will play host to nine teams each, three more than the previous year. The teams will be slotted into six groups of three and will play in a round-robin format.

Each tie includes men’s singles, women’s singles and a mixed doubles encounter. The three table-toppers alongside the runners-up in each group progress to the quarterfinals. The United Cup is a combined ATP-WTA competition that offers total prize money of AU$ 15 million, as well as 1000 combined rankings points. USA are the reigning champions of the competition.

Novak Djokovic will lead the Serbian contingent and moreover this will be a warmup event for World No.1 as he chases his 11th Australian Open title. The Serbian is also the defending champion at Melbourne Park. He bagged the Australian Open and Roland Garros titles this year but lost the Wimbledon final in an epic five-setter to Carlos Alcaraz, thereby missing a chance to bag a calendar Grand Slam in New York. 

Before the new season begins, Djokovic will lead Serbia at the Davis Cup finals in November against Great Britain. Should Serbia win, it would be their second Davis Cup. They last won the event in 2010, beating France 3-2.

The World No. 1 also leads the table for the year-ending Nitto ATP Finals and leads the pack ahead of Carlos Alcaraz and Daniil Medvedev.