Template:Short description Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox sports league Template:Tennis tournaments The Hopman Cup is an international tennis tournament that plays mixed teams (one male and one female) on a country-by-country basis.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was first held in Perth, Western Australia each year from 1989 to 2019, played on indoor hardcourt, before being replaced on the calendar in 2020 by the now defunct ATP Cup.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The tournament was played in an eight-team format, with the exception for the years 1990-1995, with twelve teams competing. It returned in July 2023 in Nice, France, played on outdoor clay, with six teams invited to participate.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref> In 2025, the Hopman Cup will take place in Bari, Puglia, Italy, from July 16 to 20 at the Fiera del Levante, continuing its tradition of showcasing top international mixed-team competition.

FormatEdit

Unlike other major international team tennis tournaments such as the Davis Cup and the Fed Cup, which are for men or women only, the Hopman Cup is a mixed competition in which male and female players are on combined teams and represent their countries. Players are invited to attend and national coaches are not involved in selecting teams.

The tournament is a sanctioned official event in the calendar of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) but, while individual player results are tallied, they are not regarded as official ATP matches or included in the calculation of ATP or WTA rankings.

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 the 2007 Hopman Cup however, this did not occur, due to the Asian Qualifying Tournament creating the eighth team.

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

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

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. The 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.

The winning team receives a silver cup perpetual trophy and through 2013 the winning team members were presented with distinctive individual trophies in the shape of a tennis ball.

HistoryEdit

The Hopman Cup was created in 1989. The championship is named in honour of Harry Hopman (1906–1985), an Australian tennis player and coach who guided the country to 15 Davis Cup titles between 1938 and 1969. From the time the Hopman Cup was founded in 1989, it was attended each year by Hopman's widow, his second wife Lucy, who travelled to the tournament from her home in the United States until she died in 2018.<ref>The Harry Hopman Legacy, Hyundai Hopman Cup website (archived), 24 March 2009.</ref>

The 2005/06 Hopman Cup was the first elite-level tennis tournament in which 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 technology. Up to and including 2012, the venue was the Burswood Dome at the Burswood Entertainment Complex. The 20th Hopman Cup, in 2008, was intended to be the last held at the Burswood Dome, however this was extended until 2012 when the new Perth Arena was due for completion. From 2013 to 2019, it was played at the Perth Arena.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

From 2014 to 2019, the Hopman Cup tournament director was Paul Kilderry after the resignation of Steve Ayles.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Previously, the former Australian tennis player Paul McNamee, who played a key role in the founding of the championships, was the tournament director.

In 2019 for the 31st edition of the tournament, a record crowd of 14,064 witnessed the 2019 Hopman Cup match between United States and Switzerland.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Roger Federer and Belinda Bencic won, with Federer becoming the first player to win the tournament three times.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He and Belinda Bencic became the first pairing to successfully defend the title, having won it the previous year.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The Hopman Cup was not held in 2020 (it was replaced in the tennis calendar until 2022 by the now defunct ATP Cup).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> ITF president David Haggerty later announced the tournament would return in 2021.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After the tournament was unable to be held in 2021, he announced it would return in 2022 instead.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In December 2021, it was announced that the tournament would return, and will be played in Nice in 2023.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The 2023 and 2024 editions would contract to six teams before expanding back to the original eight-team format in 2025.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In March 2024, it was decided that the Hopman Cup would not be held that year due to the 2024 Summer Olympics and would return in 2025.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In April 2025, it was made public that the tournament would be held from July 16-20, 2025 at the Fiera del Levante in Bari, Puglia, Italy.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

TelecastsEdit

The Hopman Cup was originally broadcast by the Seven Network until 1994, then by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1995–2010). From 2011, a five-year deal to broadcast the competition was signed by Network Ten, a deal that ended abruptly in November 2013. The Seven Network's 7mate channel subsequently picked up the telecasting rights.<ref>"7mate to serve up Hopman Cup action" Template:Webarchive, The West Australian, 19 November 2013.</ref> The Nine Network broadcast the tournament in 2019. In 2025, the official broadcaster was SuperTennis TV.

Records and statisticsEdit

Finals by yearEdit

Year Winners Score Runners-up Female champion Male champion Female finalist Male finalist
1989 Template:Hopman 2–0 Template:Hopman Helena Suková Miloslav Mečíř Hana Mandlíková Pat Cash
1990 Template:Hopman 2–1 Template:Hopman Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Emilio Sánchez Pam Shriver John McEnroe
1991 Template:Hopman 3–0 Template:Hopman Monica Seles Goran Prpić Zina Garrison David Wheaton
1992 Template:Hopman 2–1 Template:Hopman Manuela Maleeva Jakob Hlasek Helena Suková Karel Nováček
1993 Template:Hopman 2–0 Template:Hopman Steffi Graf Michael Stich Arantxa Sánchez Emilio Sánchez
1994 Template:Hopman 2–1 Template:Hopman Jana Novotná Petr Korda Anke Huber Bernd Karbacher
1995 Template:Hopman (2) 2–0 Template:Hopman Anke Huber Boris Becker Natalia Medvedeva Andrei Medvedev
1996 Template:Hopman 2–1 Template:Hopman Iva Majoli Goran Ivanišević Martina Hingis Marc Rosset
1997 Template:Hopman 2–1 Template:Hopman Chanda Rubin Justin Gimelstob Amanda Coetzer Wayne Ferreira
1998 Template:Hopman 2–1 Template:Hopman Karina Habšudová Karol Kučera Mary Pierce Cédric Pioline
1999 Template:Hopman 2–1 Template:Hopman Jelena Dokić Mark Philippoussis Åsa Carlsson Jonas Björkman
2000 Template:Hopman 3–0 Template:Hopman Amanda Coetzer Wayne Ferreira Tamarine Tanasugarn Paradorn Srichaphan
2001 Template:Hopman (2) 2–1 Template:Hopman Martina Hingis Roger Federer Monica Seles Jan-Michael Gambill
2002 Template:Hopman (2) 2–1 Template:Hopman Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (2) Tommy Robredo Monica Seles (2) Jan-Michael Gambill (2)
2003 Template:Hopman (2) 3–0 Template:Hopman Serena Williams James Blake Alicia Molik Lleyton Hewitt
2004 Template:Hopman (3) 2–1 Template:Hopman Lindsay Davenport James Blake (2) Daniela Hantuchová Karol Kučera
2005 Template:Hopman (2) 3–0 Template:Hopman Daniela Hantuchová Dominik Hrbatý Gisela Dulko Guillermo Coria
2006 Template:Hopman (4) 2–1 Template:Hopman Lisa Raymond Taylor Dent Michaëlla Krajicek Peter Wessels
2007 Template:Hopman 2–0 Template:Hopman Nadia Petrova Dmitry Tursunov Anabel Medina Garrigues Tommy Robredo
2008 Template:Hopman (5) 2–1 Template:Hopman Serena Williams (2) Mardy Fish Jelena Janković Novak Djokovic
2009 Template:Hopman (3) 2–0 Template:Hopman Dominika Cibulková Dominik Hrbatý (2) Dinara Safina Marat Safin
2010 Template:Hopman (3) 2–1 Template:Hopman María JM Sánchez Tommy Robredo (2) Laura Robson Andy Murray
2011 Template:Hopman (6) 2–1 Template:Hopman Bethanie Mattek-Sands John Isner Justine Henin Ruben Bemelmans
2012 Template:Hopman (2) 2–0 Template:Hopman Petra Kvitová Tomáš Berdych Marion Bartoli Richard Gasquet
2013 Template:Hopman (4) 2–1 Template:Hopman Anabel Medina Garrigues Fernando Verdasco Ana Ivanovic Novak Djokovic (2)
2014 Template:Hopman 2–1 Template:Hopman Alizé Cornet Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Agnieszka Radwańska Grzegorz Panfil
2015 Template:Hopman 2–1 Template:Hopman Agnieszka Radwańska Jerzy Janowicz Serena Williams John Isner
2016 Template:Hopman (2) 2–0 Template:Hopman Daria Gavrilova Nick Kyrgios Elina Svitolina Alexandr Dolgopolov
2017 Template:Hopman (2) 2–1 Template:Hopman Kristina Mladenovic Richard Gasquet CoCo Vandeweghe Jack Sock
2018 Template:Hopman (3) 2–1 Template:Hopman Belinda Bencic Roger Federer (2) Angelique Kerber Alexander Zverev
2019 Template:Hopman (4) 2–1 Template:Hopman Belinda Bencic (2) Roger Federer (3) Angelique Kerber (2) Alexander Zverev (2)
2020–22 No competition
2023 Template:Hopman (2) 2–0 Template:Hopman Donna Vekić Borna Ćorić Céline Naef Leandro Riedi
2024 No competition

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Performance by teamEdit

Country Years won Runners-up
Template:Hopman 1997, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011 (6) 1990, 1991, 2001, 2002, 2015, 2017 (6)
Template:Hopman 1990, 2002, 2010, 2013 (4) 1993, 2007 (2)
Template:Hopman 1992, 2001, 2018, 2019 (4) 1996, 2023 (2)
Template:Hopman 1998, 2005, 2009 (3) 2004 (1)
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1989, 1994, 2012 (3) 1992 (1)
Template:Hopman 1993, 1995 (2) 1994, 2018, 2019 (3)
Template:Hopman 1999, 2016 (2) 1989, 2003 (2)
Template:Hopman 2014, 2017 (2) 1998, 2012 (2)
Template:Hopman 1996, 2023 (2)
Template:Hopman 2000 (1) 1997 (1)
Template:Hopman 2007 (1) 2009 (1)
Template:Hopman 2015 (1) 2014 (1)
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  • Consecutive titles
  • Consecutive finals appearances

Participation detailsEdit

Nation 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2023 Total
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Total 8 12 12 12 12 12 12 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 6

Statistics by teamEdit

After 2019 edition Note 1: Teams with index 2 include results only of lower placed team of every appearance in the tournament in instances where two teams from the same country entered the tournament, while team with no index includes results of higher placed team only.
Note 2: Considering there is an extremely high frequency of retirements due to various reasons w.o. wins/defeats are counted in all statistics.
Note 3: "Y Ent" statistic is not complete. Information about Asian Hopman Cup, a qualifying tournament that ran from 2006 until 2009 and granted the winners entry into the Hopman Cup the following year, is missing.

Italic non-existing teams (3)
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in last 2 columns highlighted are best and worst +/- ratio

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Hopman Cup team
(41 teams + 3<ref group="N">Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union/CIS, Yugoslavia SFR.</ref> dissolved)
TOP 4<ref group="N">Since 1996 competition has group stage (2 groups) format where 1st team from each group advances to finals.
Column "All" contains placements in top 2 of each group (meaning top 4; reason below) since 1996 + semi-final appearances before that period; between 1989 and 1995 competition had knockout tournament format, and column "SF" contains semi-final appearances from that period only.
On multiple occasions 2nd placed team in the group replaced that group's 1st placed team in the finals due to latter's retirement.</ref>
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<ref group="N">Years Entered is a number of times a team has entered qualifications (qualifying tournament) for the tournament, play-off tie or played in the actual tournament; in other words participated in any way in the tournament.
Y Ent >= Y Pld.</ref>
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<ref group="N">Years played is a number of times a team has played in the actual tournament. Sometimes, despite the fact they lost in the play-off tie, a team would play in the official tournament as a replacement due to retirement of other team. Those instances are noted after plus sign as "partial participations" since those teams were (in all cases) unable to qualify for the finals.
Y Pld <= Y Ent.</ref>
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<ref group="N">RoW / Hopman Cup RoW includes qualification play-off ties. RoW including qualifying tournament ties if better than HC RoW is indicated in () parentheses alongside the HC RoW.</ref>
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<ref group="N">Does not include qualification play-off ties nor qualifying tournament ties.</ref>
Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip<ref group="N">Asian Hopman Cup was a qualifying tournament that ran from 2006 until 2009 and granted the winners entry into the Hopman Cup the following year.</ref>
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Template:Hopman 1 0 5 5 3 0.29 14 4 10 0–0
Template:Hopman 12 3 31 31 4 0.46 91 42 49 0–0
Template:Hopman 2 0 0 1 1 0.33 3 1 2 0–0
Template:Hopman 2 1 1 1 5 0.55 11 6 5 0–0
Template:Hopman 3 0 7 7 2 0.52 21 11 10 1–0
Template:Hopman 1 0 1 1 2 0.67 3 2 1 0–0
Template:Hopman 2 0 4 3+1 2 0.40 10 4 6 0–1
Template:Hopman 0 0 2 1 0 0.00 3 0 3 0–1 0
Template:Hopman 0 0 2 2 1 (3) 0.17 6 1 5 0–0 2
Template:Hopman 2 0 3 3 4 0.60 10 6 4 0–0
Template:Hopman<ref group="N">Does not include Czechoslovakia results (see Czechoslovakia note).</ref> 7 3 12 12 6 0.54 65 19 16 0–0
Template:Hopman<ref group="N">Out of 5 players that played for Czechoslovakia at Hopman Cup 4 were Czech. The team that won Czechoslovakia's only title included Slovak player.</ref> 3 3 4 4 4 0.73 11 8 3 0–0
Template:Hopman 0 0 1 1 1 0.33 3 1 2 0–0
Template:Hopman 11 3 24 24 5 0.52 64 33 31 1–0
Template:Hopman 10 6 18 18 6 0.49 53 26 27 0–0
Template:Hopman 3 0 9 9 3 0.41 22 9 13 0–0
Template:Hopman 1 0 2 1 2 0.66 3 2 1 0–1
Template:Hopman 0 0 1 1 1 0.33 3 1 2 1–0
Template:Hopman 2 0 2 2 2 (5) 0.50 6 3 3 0–0 1
Template:Hopman 0 0 1 1 0 0.00 1 0 1 0–0
Template:Hopman 2 0 10 10 3 0.33 27 9 18 1–0
Template:Hopman 0 0 6 4+1 1 0.14 7 1 6 0–2 0
Template:Hopman 1 0 2 2 2 (3) 0.33 6 2 4 0–0 1
Template:Hopman 1 0 8 8 4 0.31 16 5 11 2–0
Template:Hopman 0 0 1 1 0 0.00 1 0 1 0–0
Template:Hopman 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0–1
Template:Hopman 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0–0 0
Template:Hopman 2 0 2 2 3 0.75 8 6 2 0–0
Template:Hopman 0 0 3 2 1 0.33 6 2 4 0–1
Template:Hopman<ref group="N">Does not include Soviet Union and CIS results (see Soviet Union & CIS note).</ref> 3 0 8 8 6 0.42 26 11 15 0–0
Template:Hopman<ref group="N">Includes Serbia and Montenegro results (1 appearance) because only players from Serbia represented the team.</ref> 4 0 4 4 5 0.71 14 10 4 0–0
Template:Hopman 4 0 8 8 7 0.56 27 15 12 1–0
Template:Hopman 5 0 10 10 4 0.58 26 15 11 0–0
Template:Hopman 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0–0 0
Template:Nowrap 0 0 3 3 1 0.25 4 1 3 0–0
Template:Hopman 9 3 17 17 6 0.60 47 28 19 0–0
Template:Hopman 3 1 9 9 3 0.37 19 7 12 0–0
Template:Hopman 8 3 12 12 6 0.70 37 26 11 0–0
Template:Hopman 1 0 4 4 3 0.43 7 3 4 1–0 0
Template:Hopman 2 1 4 4 3 0.64 11 7 4 0–0
Template:Hopman 18 2 30 30 9 0.57 92 52 40 0–0
Template:Hopman 0 0 1 1 1 0.00 3 0 3 1–0 0
Template:Hopman, SFR<ref group="N">Players from Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia represented SFR Yugoslavia at Hopman Cup.</ref> 1 1 3 3 4 0.67 6 4 2 0–0
Template:Hopman 0 0 2 0+1 0 0.00 1 0 1 0–2
Notes

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Asian Hopman CupEdit

ReferencesEdit

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