Hopman Cup
Most recent season or competition:
2019 Hopman Cup
SportTennis
Founded1989 (1989) in Perth
No. of teams8 (Group A+B)
CompetitorsITF member nations
CountryAustralia (1989–2019)
France (2023–)
Venue(s)Burswood Dome (1989–2012)
Perth Arena (2013–2019)
Nice Lawn Tennis Club (2023–)
Most recent
champion(s)		Switzerland (4th title)
Most titlesUnited States (6 titles)
Official websiteHopmanCup.com

The Hopman Cup is an international eight-team indoor hardcourt tennis tournament that plays mixed-gender teams on a country-by-country basis.[1] It was held in Perth, Western Australia each year from 1989 to 2019. It was replaced on the calendar in 2020 by the ATP Cup, a newly created ATP event.[2] It is set to return on the calendar in 2023 in French venue.[3]

Format

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:

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.

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.

History

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. Since the Hopman Cup was founded in 1989, it has been attended each year by Hopman's widow, his second wife Lucy, who has travelled to the tournament from her home in the United States.[4]

Up to and including 2012, the venue was the Burswood Dome at the Burswood Entertainment Complex.

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.

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.

Since 2014, the Hopman Cup tournament director has been Paul Kilderry after the resignation of Steve Ayles.[5][6] Previously, the former Australian tennis player Paul McNamee, who played a key role in the founding of the championships, was the tournament director.

Until 2012, the Hopman Cup was played at the Burswood Dome. From 2013 to 2019, it was played at the Perth Arena.[7]

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.[8] This was also the highest attendance for a tennis match in Western Australian history.[citation needed] Roger Federer and Belinda Bencic won, with Federer becoming the first player to win the tournament three times.[9] He and Belinda Bencic became the first paring to successfully defend the title, having won it the previous year.[10]

The Hopman Cup was not held in 2020 after Perth, host of the Hopman cup for 31 years, replaced it by the newly created ATP Cup.[11] ITF president David Haggerty later announced the tournament would return in 2021.[12] After the tournament was not held in 2021, he announced it would return in 2022 instead.[13] 2021 it was announced that the tournament will be played in Nice in 2023.[14]

Telecasts

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.[15] The Nine Network broadcast the tournament in 2019.

Records and statistics

Finals by year

Year Winners Score Runners-up Female champion Male champion Female finalist Male finalist
1989  Czechoslovakia 2–0  Australia Helena Suková Miloslav Mečíř Hana Mandlíková Pat Cash
1990  Spain 2–1  United States Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Emilio Sánchez Pam Shriver John McEnroe
1991  Yugoslavia 3–0  United States Monica Seles Goran Prpić Zina Garrison David Wheaton
1992   Switzerland 2–1  Czechoslovakia Manuela Maleeva Jakob Hlasek Helena Suková Karel Nováček
1993  Germany 2–0  Spain Steffi Graf Michael Stich Arantxa Sánchez Emilio Sánchez
1994  Czech Republic 2–1  Germany Jana Novotná Petr Korda Anke Huber Bernd Karbacher
1995  Germany (2) 2–0  Ukraine Anke Huber Boris Becker Natalia Medvedeva Andrei Medvedev
1996  Croatia 2–1   Switzerland Iva Majoli Goran Ivanišević Martina Hingis Marc Rosset
1997  United States 2–1  South Africa Chanda Rubin Justin Gimelstob Amanda Coetzer Wayne Ferreira
1998  Slovakia 2–1  France Karina Habšudová Karol Kučera Mary Pierce Cédric Pioline
1999  Australia 2–1  Sweden Jelena Dokić Mark Philippoussis Åsa Carlsson Jonas Björkman
2000  South Africa 3–0  Thailand Amanda Coetzer Wayne Ferreira Tamarine Tanasugarn Paradorn Srichaphan
2001   Switzerland (2) 2–1  United States Martina Hingis Roger Federer Monica Seles Jan-Michael Gambill
2002  Spain (2) 2–1  United States Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (2) Tommy Robredo Monica Seles (2) Jan-Michael Gambill (2)
2003  United States (2) 3–0  Australia Serena Williams James Blake Alicia Molik Lleyton Hewitt
2004  United States (3) 2–1  Slovakia Lindsay Davenport James Blake (2) Daniela Hantuchová Karol Kučera
2005  Slovakia (2) 3–0  Argentina Daniela Hantuchová Dominik Hrbatý Gisela Dulko Guillermo Coria
2006  United States (4) 2–1  Netherlands Lisa Raymond Taylor Dent Michaëlla Krajicek Peter Wessels
2007  Russia 2–0  Spain Nadia Petrova Dmitry Tursunov Anabel Medina Garrigues Tommy Robredo
2008  United States (5) 2–1  Serbia Serena Williams (2) Mardy Fish Jelena Janković Novak Djokovic
2009  Slovakia (3) 2–0  Russia Dominika Cibulková Dominik Hrbatý (2) Dinara Safina Marat Safin
2010  Spain (3) 2–1  Great Britain MJ Martínez Sánchez Tommy Robredo (2) Laura Robson Andy Murray
2011  United States (6) 2–1  Belgium Bethanie Mattek-Sands John Isner Justine Henin Ruben Bemelmans
2012  Czech Republic (2) 2–0  France Petra Kvitová Tomáš Berdych Marion Bartoli Richard Gasquet
2013  Spain (4) 2–1  Serbia Anabel Medina Garrigues Fernando Verdasco Ana Ivanovic Novak Djokovic (2)
2014  France 2–1  Poland Alizé Cornet Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Agnieszka Radwańska Grzegorz Panfil
2015  Poland 2–1  United States Agnieszka Radwańska Jerzy Janowicz Serena Williams John Isner
2016  Australia (2) 2–0  Ukraine Daria Gavrilova Nick Kyrgios Elina Svitolina Alexandr Dolgopolov
2017  France (2) 2–1  United States Kristina Mladenovic Richard Gasquet CoCo Vandeweghe Jack Sock
2018   Switzerland (3) 2–1  Germany Belinda Bencic Roger Federer (2) Angelique Kerber Alexander Zverev
2019   Switzerland (4) 2–1  Germany Belinda Bencic (2) Roger Federer (3) Angelique Kerber (2) Alexander Zverev (2)

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Performance by team

Country Years won Runners-up
 United States 1997, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011 (6) 1990, 1991, 2001, 2002, 2015, 2017 (6)
 Spain 1990, 2002, 2010, 2013 (4) 1993, 2007 (2)
  Switzerland 1992, 2001, 2018, 2019 (4) 1996 (1)
 Slovakia 1998, 2005, 2009 (3) 2004 (1)
 Czech Republic
 Czechoslovakia 		1989, 1994, 2012 (3) 1992 (1)
 Germany 1993, 1995 (2) 1994, 2018, 2019 (3)
 Australia 1999, 2016 (2) 1989, 2003 (2)
 France 2014, 2017 (2) 1998, 2012 (2)
 South Africa 2000 (1) 1997 (1)
 Russia 2007 (1) 2009 (1)
 Poland 2015 (1) 2014 (1)
 Yugoslavia 1991 (1) –
 Croatia 1996 (1) –
 Serbia – 2008, 2013 (2)
 Ukraine – 1995, 2016 (2)
 Sweden – 1999 (1)
 Thailand – 2000 (1)
 Argentina – 2005 (1)
 Netherlands – 2006 (1)
 Great Britain – 2010 (1)
 Belgium – 2011 (1)

Participation details

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 Total
 Argentina – – – – – – 1R – – – – – – RR – – F RR – RR – – – – – – – – – – – 5
 Australia F SF QF 1R QF SF QF RR RR RR W RR RR RR F RR RR RR RR RR RR RR RR RR RR RR RR RR RR RR RR 31
W
 Austria – QF – – 1R SF QF – – – – RR – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – − 5
 Belgium – – – – – – – – – – – RR RR RR RR RR – – – – – – F – – – – – – RR − 7
 Bulgaria – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – RR – – – - – – − 1
 Canada – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – LQ – – – – – – – – – RR RR – – RR − 4
 China – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – LQ – – – – – RR – – – – – – − 2
 CIS – – – QF Defunct 1
 Chinese Taipei – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – RR RR – – – – – – – – – − 2
 Croatia Competed as Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – – – W RR – – – – – – – – – RR – – – – – – – – – – – − 3
 Czech Republic Competed as Czechoslovakia SF W SF – – – – – – – RR RR – – RR RR – – – W – RR RR RR RR – − 12
 Czechoslovakia W SF QF F Defunct 4
 Denmark – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – RR – – – – – – − 1
 France RR QF SF QF SF QF SF RR RR F RR – – RR – RR – – RR RR RR – RR F RR W RR RR W – RR 24
 Germany SF – 1R SF W F W RR RR RR – – – – – – RR RR – – RR RR – – RR – – RR RR F F 18
 Great Britain 1R – 1R 1R – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – F RR – – – RR RR RR – RR 9
 Greece – – – – – – – – – – – – – LQ – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – RR 2
 Hungary – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – RR – – – – – – – – – – – – – – − 1
 India – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – RR RR – – – – – – – – – – − 2
 Israel – – – – 1R – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – − 1
 Italy – QF 1R – – – – – – – – – – RR RR – RR – – – RR – RR – RR RR RR – – – − 10
 Japan 1R – – 1R 1R – – – – – – LQ LQ – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – RR − 6
 Kazakhstan Competed as Soviet Union – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – RR RR – – – – – – – − 2
 Netherlands – 1R 1R QF – 1R 1R RR – – – – – – – – RR F – – – – – – – – – – – – − 8
 New Zealand – 1R – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – − 1
 Paraguay – – – – – – – – – – – – – – LQ – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – − 1
 Poland – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – F W – – – − 2
 Romania – – – – – – – – RR LQ – – – – – – – – – – – RR – – – – – – – – − 3
 Russia Competed as Soviet Union – – – – – – – – – RR – – RR RR RR W – F RR – – – – – – – RR − 8
 Serbia Competed as Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – F – – RR – F – – – – – − 3
 Serbia and Montenegro Competed as Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – – – – – – – – – – – – – – RR Defunct 1
 Slovakia Competed as Czechoslovakia – – – – – W RR RR RR – RR F W – – – W – – – – – – – – – − 8
 South Africa – – – – 1R 1R 1R RR F RR RR W RR – – – – – – – – – – – RR – – – – – − 10
 Soviet Union – QF QF Defunct 2
 Spain – W QF SF F QF QF – – RR RR – – W RR – – – F – – W – RR W RR – – RR – RR 17
 Sweden SF 1R – 1R – 1R 1R – – RR F RR – – – – – RR – – – – – – – – – – – – − 9
  Switzerland – – SF W QF QF – F RR – RR – W RR – – – – – – – – – – – – – – RR W W 12
 Thailand – – – – – – – – – – – F RR – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – − 2
 Ukraine Competed as Soviet Union – QF 1R F – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – F – – − 4
 United States – F F QF QF QF QF RR W RR RR RR F F W W RR W RR W RR RR W RR RR RR F RR F RR RR 30
 Uzbekistan Competed as Soviet Union – – – – – – – – – – – RR – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – − 1
 Yugoslavia 1R 1R W – Defunct 3
 Zimbabwe – – – – – – – – – – LQ – – – – – LQ – – – – – – – – – – – – – − 2
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

Statistics by team

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)
most (best or worst) in category & best and worst %
in last 2 columns highlighted are best and worst +/- ratio
Hopman Cup team
(41 teams + 3[N 1] dissolved)
 TOP 4[N 2] Y Ent
[N 3] 		Y Pld
[N 4] 		RoW
[N 5] 		W% T Pld
[N 6] 		W L Q PO
W-L 		AHC[N 7]
All SF W-L T
 Argentina 1 0 5 5 3 0.29 14 4 10 0–0 — —
 Australia 12 3 31 31 4 0.46 91 42 49 0–0 — —
 Australia 2 0 0 1 1 — 0.33 3 1 2 0–0 — —
 Austria 2 1 1 1 5 0.55 11 6 5 0–0 — —
 Belgium 3 0 7 7 2 0.52 21 11 10 1–0 — —
 Bulgaria 1 0 1 1 2 0.67 3 2 1 0–0 — —
 Canada 2 0 4 3+1 2 0.40 10 4 6 0–1 — —
 China 0 0 2 1 0 0.00 3 0 3 0–1 0
 Chinese Taipei 0 0 2 2 1 (3) 0.17 6 1 5 0–0 2
 Croatia 2 0 3 3 4 0.60 10 6 4 0–0 — —
 Czech Republic[N 8] 7 3 12 12 6 0.54 65 19 16 0–0 — —
 Czechoslovakia[N 9] 3 3 4 4 4 0.73 11 8 3 0–0 — —
 Denmark 0 0 1 1 1 0.33 3 1 2 0–0 — —
 France 11 3 24 24 5 0.52 64 33 31 1–0 — —
 Germany 10 6 18 18 6 0.49 53 26 27 0–0 — —
 Great Britain 3 0 9 9 3 0.41 22 9 13 0–0 — —
 Greece 1 0 2 1 2 0.66 3 2 1 0–1 — —
 Hungary 0 0 1 1 1 0.33 3 1 2 1–0 — —
 India 2 0 2 2 2 (5) 0.50 6 3 3 0–0 1
 Israel 0 0 1 1 0 0.00 1 0 1 0–0 — —
 Italy 2 0 10 10 3 0.33 27 9 18 1–0 — —
 Japan 0 0 6 4+1 1 0.14 7 1 6 0–2 0
 Kazakhstan 1 0 2 2 2 (3) 0.33 6 2 4 0–0 1
 Netherlands 1 0 8 8 4 0.31 16 5 11 2–0 — —
 New Zealand 0 0 1 1 0 0.00 1 0 1 0–0 — —
 Paraguay 0 0 1 0 0 — 0 0 0 0–1 — —
 Philippines 0 0 1 0 0 — 0 0 0 0–0 0
 Poland 2 0 2 2 3 0.75 8 6 2 0–0 — —
 Romania 0 0 3 2 1 0.33 6 2 4 0–1 — —
 Russia[N 10] 3 0 8 8 6 0.42 26 11 15 0–0 — —
 Serbia[N 11] 4 0 4 4 5 0.71 14 10 4 0–0 — —
 Slovakia 4 0 8 8 7 0.56 27 15 12 1–0 — —
 South Africa 5 0 10 10 4 0.58 26 15 11 0–0 — —
 South Korea 0 0 2 0 0 — 0 0 0 0–0 0
 Soviet Union &  CIS[N 12] 0 0 3 3 1 0.25 4 1 3 0–0 — —
 Spain 9 3 17 17 6 0.60 47 28 19 0–0 — —
 Sweden 3 1 9 9 3 0.37 19 7 12 0–0 — —
  Switzerland 8 3 12 12 6 0.70 37 26 11 0–0 — —
 Thailand 1 0 4 4 3 0.43 7 3 4 1–0 0
 Ukraine 2 1 4 4 3 0.64 11 7 4 0–0 — —
 United States 18 2 30 30 9 0.57 92 52 40 0–0 — —
 Uzbekistan 0 0 1 1 1 0.00 3 0 3 1–0 0
 Yugoslavia, SFR[N 13] 1 1 3 3 4 0.67 6 4 2 0–0 — —
 Zimbabwe 0 0 2 0+1 0 0.00 1 0 1 0–2 — —
Notes
  1. ^ Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union/CIS, Yugoslavia SFR.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ RoW / Hopman Cup RoW includes qualification play-off ties. RoW including qualifying tournament ties if better than HC RoW is indicated in () parenthesis alongside the HC RoW.
  6. ^ Does not include qualification play-off ties nor qualifying tournament ties.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Does not include Czechoslovakia results (see Czechoslovakia note).
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Does not include Soviet Union and CIS results (see Soviet Union & CIS note).
  11. ^ Includes Serbia and Montenegro results (1 appearance) because only players from Serbia represented the team.
  12. ^ Out of 3 players that played for Soviet Union and CIS at Hopman Cup 2 were Russian.
  13. ^ Players from Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia represented SFR Yugoslavia at Hopman Cup.

Asian Hopman Cup

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