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The Hopman Cup is an annual international team tennis
Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
 tournament
Tournament

A tournament is a competition involving a relatively large number of competitors, all participating in a sport or game. More specifically, the term may be used in either of two overlapping senses:...
 founded by Paul McNamee
Paul McNamee

Paul McNamee is a retired Australian tennis player and prominent sports administrator....
 and Charlie Fancutt, and held in Perth
Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the List of Australian capital cities and largest city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of Western Australia. With a population of 1,554,769 , Perth ranks fourth amongst the nation's cities, with a growth rate consistently above the national average....
, Western Australia
Western Australia

Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....
 in early-January (sometimes commencing in late-December) each year, which plays mixed teams on a country by country basis.

ke other major international team tennis tournaments like the Davis Cup
Davis Cup

The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. The largest annual international team competition in sports, the Davis Cup is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format....
 and the Fed Cup
Fed Cup

Fed Cup is the premier team competition in women's tennis, launched in 1963 Federation Cup to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the International Tennis Federation ....
, which are strictly for men or women only, the Hopman Cup is a mixed competition where male and female players team up together on combined teams and represent their country.






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The Hopman Cup is an annual international team tennis
Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
 tournament
Tournament

A tournament is a competition involving a relatively large number of competitors, all participating in a sport or game. More specifically, the term may be used in either of two overlapping senses:...
 founded by Paul McNamee
Paul McNamee

Paul McNamee is a retired Australian tennis player and prominent sports administrator....
 and Charlie Fancutt, and held in Perth
Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the List of Australian capital cities and largest city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of Western Australia. With a population of 1,554,769 , Perth ranks fourth amongst the nation's cities, with a growth rate consistently above the national average....
, Western Australia
Western Australia

Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....
 in early-January (sometimes commencing in late-December) each year, which plays mixed teams on a country by country basis.

Format

Unlike other major international team tennis tournaments like the Davis Cup
Davis Cup

The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. The largest annual international team competition in sports, the Davis Cup is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format....
 and the Fed Cup
Fed Cup

Fed Cup is the premier team competition in women's tennis, launched in 1963 Federation Cup to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the International Tennis Federation ....
, which are strictly for men or women only, the Hopman Cup is a mixed competition where male and female players team up together on combined teams and represent their country. Players are invited to attend, national coaches not being involved in selecting teams.

Eight nations are selected annually to compete in the Hopman Cup. (The 'last' team may be decided by play-offs between several nations before competition begins. For Hopman Cup XIX however, this did not occur, due to the Asian Qualifying Tournament creating the eighth team. The official tournament website also has no qualifier listed in its schedule.)

Each team consists of one male player and one female player. Each match-up between two teams at the championships consists of:

  • one women's singles match
  • one men's singles match
  • one mixed doubles match


Each year the eight competing teams are separated into two groups of four (with two teams being seeded) and face-off against each of the other three teams in their group in a round-robin format. These seedings ensure that each group has approximately similar strength. The top team in each group then meet in a final to decide the champions.

If a player is injured then a player of a lower ranking of that nation may be the substitute.

Venue

The matches are played at an indoor hardcourt
Hardcourt

Hardcourt or hard court describes a form of surface or floor on which a sport is played. It may refer to an indoor court made from a wood, or more specifically hardwood such as maple, as in basketball or indoor soccer....
 venue - the Burswood Dome at the Burswood Entertainment Complex
Burswood Entertainment Complex

The Burswood Entertainment Complex is located on the Swan River some five minutes from the city of Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by Crown Limited....
. The tournament is a sanctioned event in the calendar of the International Tennis Federation
International Tennis Federation

The International Tennis Federation is the governing body of world tennis, made up of 205 national tennis associations.It was established as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by 12 national associations meeting at a conference in Paris, France on 1 March 1913....
 (ITF), but individual player results are not included in the calculation of the tennis world rankings. The competition receives extensive television coverage in Australia and is an important lead-up tournament to the Australian Open
Australian Open

The Australian Open is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments held each year. The tournament is held each January at Melbourne Park....
 each January. The winning team receives a silver cup perpetual trophy, and the winning team members are presented with distinctive individual trophies in the shape of a tennis ball encrusted with diamond
Diamond

In mineralogy, diamond is the Allotropes of carbon where the carbon atoms are arranged in an isometric-hexoctahedral crystal lattice. After graphite, diamond is the second most stable form of carbon....
s from the Argyle diamond mine
Argyle diamond mine

The Argyle diamond mine is a diamond mining located in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The Argyle mine is the largest diamond producer in the world by volume, although due to the low proportion of gem-quality diamonds, is not the leader by value....
 in the Kimberley region of Western Australia
Kimberley region of Western Australia

The Kimberley is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is located in the northern part of Western Australia, bordered on the west by the Indian Ocean, on the north by the Timor Sea, on the south by the Great Sandy Desert and Tanami Desert Deserts, and on the east by the Northern Territory....
.

Harry Hopman

The championship is named in honour of Harry Hopman
Harry Hopman

Henry Christian Hopman, Order of the British Empire was a world-acclaimed tennis player and Coach , born in Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales and soon moving to Parramatta, New South Wales, a city adjoining Sydney, Australia and now effectively a suburb of the metropolis....
 (1906-1985), an Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n tennis player
Player (game)

A player of a game is a participant therein. The term 'player' is used with this same meaning both in game theory and in ordinary recreational games....
 and coach
Coach (sport)

In sports, a coach or manager is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportsperson....
 who guided the country to no less than 15 Davis Cup
Davis Cup

The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. The largest annual international team competition in sports, the Davis Cup is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format....
 titles in the 1938-1969 period.

Since the Hopman Cup was founded, it has been attended every year by Harry Hopman's widow, Lucy, who travels to the tournament annually from her home in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. Fans have warmly adopted her as the "Queen of the Cup".

Miscellaneous

The Tournament Director of the Hopman Cup is the former Australian tennis player Paul McNamee
Paul McNamee

Paul McNamee is a retired Australian tennis player and prominent sports administrator....
, who played a key role in the founding of the championships.

The 2005/06 Hopman Cup was the first elite-level tennis tournament where the system was introduced allowing players to challenge point-ending line calls similar to that in clay court tournaments. The challenged calls are immediately reviewed on a large monitor using Hawk-Eye
Hawk-Eye

Hawk-Eye is a computer system used in cricket, tennis and other sports to visually track the path of the ball and display a record of its actual path as graphic image....
 technology.

The XX Hopman Cup, in 2008, was to be the last to be held at the Burswood Dome, however this has been extended until 2011, when the new Perth Arena
Perth Arena

Perth Arena is a new indoor sporting and entertainment arena located on Wellington Street in the city centre of Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia....
 is due for completion.

Past Champions


Records and statistics


Team


  • Consecutive titles
    • All-time: 2, United States, 2003
      2003 Fed Cup

      The 2003 Fed Cup was the 41st edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. 79 nations participated in the tournament....
      -2004
      2004 Fed Cup

      The 2004 Fed Cup was the 42nd edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. 77 nations participated in the tournament....
  • Consecutive finals appearances
    • All-time: 4, United States, 2001
      2001 Fed Cup

      The 2001 Fed Cup was the 39th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. The World Group was reduced to 8 teams, divided into two pools, with the winners meeting in the finals....
      -2004
      2004 Fed Cup

      The 2004 Fed Cup was the 42nd edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. 77 nations participated in the tournament....


See also

  • Burswood Dome
  • Harry Hopman
    Harry Hopman

    Henry Christian Hopman, Order of the British Empire was a world-acclaimed tennis player and Coach , born in Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales and soon moving to Parramatta, New South Wales, a city adjoining Sydney, Australia and now effectively a suburb of the metropolis....
  • Davis Cup
    Davis Cup

    The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. The largest annual international team competition in sports, the Davis Cup is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format....
  • Fed Cup
    Fed Cup

    Fed Cup is the premier team competition in women's tennis, launched in 1963 Federation Cup to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the International Tennis Federation ....
  • World Team Cup
    World Team Cup

    The ARAG ATP World Team Championship is the international team championship of the Association of Tennis Professionals . The tournament has been contested annually since 1978 and is considered to be second most prestigious men's team competition in tennis after the Davis Cup....


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