The biggest sporting events of 2020

A new team tournament will kick off the new men's tennis season in Australia just before the Australian Open. The 24 participants will be determined largely by the ranking of their top singles player, so expect Novak Djokovic's Serbia, Roger Federer's Switzerland and Rafael Nadal's Spain to be involved. Played on hard courts, the final will be in Sydney in 2020.

Miami Gardens hosts this season's showpiece (in every sense of the word) with the New England Patriots seeking to make the Super Bowl for the fifth time in the last six yearss. Bill Belichick's outfit have again looked strong in the regular season to date while the San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints, Baltimore Ravens and Seattle Seakhawks are among the other teams in the hunt.

The men's and women's international tournament editions of cricket's shortest format will be played in Australia in 2020. The women are up first, from February 21 to March 8. The hosts are to be led by Elysse Perry who has also represented Australia at football. Then it's the men's turn, from October 18 to November 15 where Virat Kohli (pictured) carries the hopes of India's passionate fans.

Vietnam is set to host the first Grand Prix in its history, with the third race of the 2020 Formula 1 season to take place on a street circuit in the capital, Hanoi. Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes both won their sixth championships in 2019 and will be among the favorites to repeat the trick. The other addition to the calendar sees the first Dutch Grand Prix since 1985.

The 2019-20 tournament sees an all-conquering Lyon aiming to win a fifth straight crown at Viola Park in Vienna, the 17,656 capacity home of Austria Vienna. The French outfit have already booked their quarterfinal spot along with Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Glasgow City, Wolfsburg, Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain.

The 16th European Championship is to be held in 12 countries to mark the competition's 60th anniversary, with the final in London. Holders Portugal are in a group with Germany and World Cup champions France but four qualifiers are yet to be decided through Nations League playoffs in March. Euro 2020 is to be played on exactly the same dates as the South American equivalent, Copa America.

Cycling's biggest show will begin in Nice for the first time since 1981 and only the second time ever. The riders, will cover 3,470 kilometers over 21 stages. Colombia's Egan Bernal became the youngest winner of the Tour since 1909 last time out and his team, Team Ineos, are once again expected to be a major force.

Tokyo's new national stadium´stands on the site of its predecessor, which was the focal point for the Games in 1964, the last time Japan's capital hosted the Olympics. About 11,000 athletes are expected to compete for 339 medals in 33 sports, the newest of which are baseball, karate, skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing. Japan were sixth on the medal table in 2016, one spot below Germany.

The Paralympics continue to grow in both numbers and popularity, and Tokyo is likely to be no exception. Over 4,000 athletes are to take part in 540 events across 22 sports with badminton and taekwondo replacing sailing and seven-a-side football this time around. China topped the medal table in 2016 with a staggering 107 golds, Great Britain were next best with 64.

The return of Tiger Woods wasn't enough for the USA to win the Ryder Cup in Paris in 2018 as Europe swept to a convincing victory last time out. But the Americans have home advantage this time, with the team tournament to be played at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. Steve Stricker will captain the hosts, with Irishman Padraig Harrington taking the reigns for Europe.

She may have already done it by the time the third grand slam of the season comes around but the US Open looks Serena Williams' best shot of equaling Margaret Court's all-time grand slam singles title record of 24. The American great is now 38 but has reached the final at Flushing Meadows for the last two years without success. Could this be her last big chance?

After a run to the semifinals of the World Championship that captured the imagination in their homeland, Germany's men will attempt to regain a crown they last wore in 2016 from January 9 to 26 in a tournament being cohosted by Austria, Norway and Sweden. After both the men and the women compete in Tokyo comes the women's European Championship in Norway and Denmark in December.