There are 17 national teams registered for the Nation's Cup. The draw has resulted in the following groups:

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4
Germany	Netherlands	Switzerland	Belgium
Austria	Italy	Turkey	Czech
Croatia	United Kingdom	Hungary	Latvia
Greece	Luxembourg	Lithuania	USA
	Morocco

Seeding took place by taking into account the results of the P4P European Championship 2008 and the P4P World Championship 2006. The resulting top eight teams (Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Turkey, Czech Republic and Italy) were seeded into the groups; the remaining teams were distributed randomly.

Quarter finals:

QF 1: 1st place Group 1 vs. 2nd place Group 2
QF 2: 1st place Group 3 vs. 2nd place Group 4
QF 3: 1st place Group 4 vs. 2nd place Group 3
QF 4: 1st place Group 2 vs. 2nd place Group 1

Semi finals:

SF 1: winner QF 1 vs. winner QF 4
SF 2: winner QF 2 vs. winner QF 3

1.	Switzerland
2.	Germany
3.	Belgium
4.	Austria
5.	Hungary
6.	Netherlands
7.	USA
8.	Italy
9.	Czech Republic
10.	Turkey
11.	Greece
12.	Luxembourg
13.	United Kingdom
14.	Morocco
15.	Lithuania
16.	Croatia

Rank:5	Rank:4	Final
Germany
Italy	Germany
Netherlands	Austria
Austria		Germany
Switzerland		Switzerland
USA	Switzerland	Austria
Belgium	Belgium	Belgium
Hungary

Group 1

	Team	Sets	Games	Points
1.	Germany	29	14	3
2.	Austria	22	10	2
3.	Greece	14	5	1
4.	Croatia	2	1	0

Group 2

	Team	Sets	Games	Points
1.	Netherlands	26	12	3
2.	Italy	21	8	2
3.	Luxembourg	12	5	1
4.	United Kingdom	14	5	0

Group 3

	Team	Sets	Games	Points
1.	Switzerland	27	12	3
2.	Hungary	23	10	2
3.	Turkey	15	7	1
4.	Lithuania	7	1	0

Group 4

RG	Team	Sets	Games	Points
1.	Belgium	24	11	3
2.	USA	22	10	2
3.	Czech	18	7	1
4.	Morocco	6	2	0

Title: The name of the event is "Players 4 Players Nation's Cup", and the winning team will be the "P4P Nation's Cup Champion". We made an agreement with our colleagues from ITSF about the naming, and we want to point out that this is no "World Championship", and the P4P Nation's Cup also does not count towards any ITSF ranking.

Number of teams: The event is limited to a maximum of 16 participating national teams. Should more than 16 teams apply, the order/date of arrival of their definitive confirmation (with the complete players list of a team) will decide which teams will participate ("first come, first served"). Update: Due to the large number of countries wishing to participate, we decided to raise the maximum number of teams to 20.

Number of team members: At least 8 players have to be nominated for each team (6 men, 2 women), plus up to two reserve players, making up for a total (and maximum) of 10 players. A team captain has also to be nominated; this can be one of the aforementioned players, but can also be an 11th person. In the latter case, the team captain is not allowed to play in the matches (only the 10 players).

Mode of play: We will play a first round in 2-4 groups of up to five teams each (the numbers depend on the number of participating teams). The best teams of each group will reach the main round, comprised of 8 teams. The main round will be played "KO-Style": Quarter Finals, Semi-Finals, match for third place, Final. The placements of the teams below 4th place will be calculated by the points from the previous matches, so there will be no "match for 5th place".

In each match, the following games will be played:

Doubles 1
Doubles 2
Men's Singles
Women's Singles
Mixed

No single player is allowed to play in more than one game during a match! This is the reason there have to be at least 6 men and 2 women in each team; i.e. in each game during a match, there will be different players participating. Should a team start a match with not enough players to fulfill this requirement (e.g. they can only nominate one woman), then this team will have to forfeit all games which cannot be played by different players. In this example, they would have to forfeit either the Mixed or the Women's Singles, because the same player is not allowed to play both.

All games are played "Best of Three" (with each set going to 5 goals). The matches will be played according to the P4P rules.

Hotel(s): The national team members (or their national federations) have to pay for their traveling costs and hotel rooms themselves, and they also have to organize the booking of rooms themselves (see hotel information; we are trying to make arrangements with hotels near the tournament site). Note that the Nation's Cup price money will reward 300€ even to the last placed team, to give a partial compensation for the hotel costs.

Dress code: The team captain of the national teams are responsible for organizing matching T-Shirts (or Polo shirts etc.) for the members of their team. In any case, the members of each national team have to wear sportive, matching clothing (preferable with your country's name and/or flag on it).

Price Money: See Tournament Flyer.

Entry Fee: There is no entry fee for the Nation's Cup.

P4P Open World Championship: Of course, the members of the national teams can also participate in the different Doubles / Singles events of the P4P Open World Championship (they have to pay the same entry fees as all other players attending the event).

Time Schedule: All National Team players have to be present for the opening ceremony on Friday at 6 pm, wearing their team dress, to facilitate the presentation of the teams. After the ceremony, we will start the Nation's Cup matches at approximately 7 pm. The first round should be completed about 12 pm on Friday. The Nation's Cup will continue with the quarter-finals on Saturday at 7 pm, the two semi-finals will be at 9 pm. The game for third place is planned for Sunday at 11 am; the finals will be on Sunday at 1 pm.

More Details about the time schedule for all events.