The Hopman Cup is an international tennis tournament that plays mixed teams (one male and one female) on a country-by-country basis. 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, which was in turn replaced by the United Cup. 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 and was played on outdoor clay, with six teams invited to participate. This continued in 2025, with the tournament being held in Bari, Italy on hard courts.
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. 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.The Harry Hopman Legacy, Hyundai Hopman Cup website (archived), 24 March 2009.
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.
From 2014 to 2019, the Hopman Cup tournament director was Paul Kilderry after the resignation of Steve Ayles. 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. Roger Federer and Belinda Bencic won, with Federer becoming the first player to win the tournament three times. He and Belinda Bencic became the first pairing to successfully defend the title, having won it the previous year.
The Hopman Cup was not held in 2020 (it was replaced in the tennis calendar until 2022 by the now defunct ATP Cup). ITF president David Haggerty later announced the tournament would return in 2021. After the tournament was unable to be held in 2021, he announced it would return in 2022 instead. In December 2021, it was announced that the tournament would return in Nice in 2023. The 2023 and 2024 editions would contract to six teams before expanding back to the original eight-team format in 2025. However, there was no competition in 2024, and the 2025 edition still featured only six teams.
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, this time at Bari, Puglia, Italy, from July 16 to 20.
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.
Originally, eight nations were 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. Since 2023, only six teams are competing.
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 competing teams are separated into two groups (with two teams being seeded) and face-off against each of the other 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.
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."7mate to serve up Hopman Cup action" , The West Australian, 19 November 2013. The Nine Network broadcast the tournament in 2019. In 2025, the official broadcaster was SuperTennis TV.
Records and statistics Finals by year YearWinnersScoreRunners-upFemale championMale championFemale finalistMale finalist 1989 2–0 Helena Suková Miloslav Mečíř Hana Mandlíková Pat Cash 1990 2–1 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Emilio Sánchez Pam Shriver John McEnroe 1991 3–0 Monica Seles Goran Prpić Zina Garrison David Wheaton 1992 2–1 Manuela Maleeva Jakob Hlasek Helena Suková Karel Nováček 1993 2–0 Steffi Graf Michael Stich Arantxa Sánchez Emilio Sánchez 1994 2–1 Jana Novotná Petr Korda Anke Huber Bernd Karbacher 1995 (2) 2–0 Anke Huber Boris Becker Natalia Medvedeva Andrei Medvedev 1996 2–1 Iva Majoli Goran Ivanišević Martina Hingis Marc Rosset 1997 2–1 Chanda Rubin Justin Gimelstob Amanda Coetzer Wayne Ferreira 1998 2–1 Karina Habšudová Karol Kučera Mary Pierce Cédric Pioline 1999 2–1 Jelena Dokić Mark Philippoussis Åsa Carlsson Jonas Björkman 2000 3–0 Amanda Coetzer Wayne Ferreira Tamarine Tanasugarn Paradorn Srichaphan 2001 (2) 2–1 Martina Hingis Roger Federer Monica Seles Jan-Michael Gambill 2002 (2) 2–1 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (2) Tommy Robredo Monica Seles Jan-Michael Gambill 2003 (2) 3–0 Serena Williams James Blake Alicia Molik Lleyton Hewitt 2004 (3) 2–1 Lindsay Davenport James Blake (2) Daniela Hantuchová Karol Kučera 2005 (2) 3–0 Daniela Hantuchová Dominik Hrbatý Gisela Dulko Guillermo Coria 2006 (4) 2–1 Lisa Raymond Taylor Dent Michaëlla Krajicek Peter Wessels 2007 2–0 Nadia Petrova Dmitry Tursunov Anabel Medina Garrigues Tommy Robredo 2008 (5) 2–1 Serena Williams (2) Mardy Fish Jelena Janković Novak Djokovic 2009 (3) 2–0 Dominika Cibulková Dominik Hrbatý (2) Dinara Safina Marat Safin 2010 (3) 2–1 María JM Sánchez Tommy Robredo (2) Laura Robson Andy Murray 2011 (6) 2–1 Bethanie Mattek-Sands John Isner Justine Henin Ruben Bemelmans 2012 (2) 2–0 Petra Kvitová Tomáš Berdych Marion Bartoli Richard Gasquet 2013 (4) 2–1 Anabel Medina Garrigues Fernando Verdasco Ana Ivanovic Novak Djokovic 2014 2–1 Alizé Cornet Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Agnieszka Radwańska Grzegorz Panfil 2015 2–1 Agnieszka Radwańska Jerzy Janowicz Serena Williams John Isner 2016 (2) 2–0 Daria Gavrilova Nick Kyrgios Elina Svitolina Alexandr Dolgopolov 2017 (2) 2–1 Kristina Mladenovic Richard Gasquet CoCo Vandeweghe Jack Sock 2018 (3) 2–1 Belinda Bencic Roger Federer (2) Angelique Kerber Alexander Zverev 2019 (4) 2–1 Belinda Bencic (2) Roger Federer (3) Angelique Kerber Alexander Zverev2020–22 No competition 2023 (2) 2–0 Donna Vekić Borna Ćorić Céline Naef Leandro Riedi2024 No competition2025 2–1 Bianca Andreescu Félix Auger-Aliassime Lucia Bronzetti Flavio Cobolli
Performance by team Country Years won Runners-up 1997, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011 (6)1990, 1991, 2001, 2002, 2015, 2017 (6) 1990, 2002, 2010, 2013 (4)1993, 2007 (2)1992, 2001, 2018, 2019 (4)1996, 2023 (2) 1998, 2005, 2009 (3)2004 (1) 1989, 1994, 2012 (3)1992 (1) 1993, 1995 (2)1994, 2018, 2019 (3) 1999, 2016 (2)1989, 2003 (2) 2014, 2017 (2)1998, 2012 (2) 1996, 2023 (2) – 2000 (1)1997 (1) 2007 (1)2009 (1) 2015 (1)2014 (1) 1991 (1) – 2025 (1) – –2008, 2013 (2) –1995, 2016 (2) –1999 (1) –2000 (1) –2005 (1) –2006 (1) –2010 (1) –2011 (1) –2025 (1) Consecutive titles All-time: 2, United States, 2003–2004; Switzerland, 2018−2019 Consecutive finals appearances All-time: 4, United States, 2001–2004
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