The Hopman Cup is an annual international team tennis tournament held in Perth, Western Australia in early-January (sometimes commencing in late-December) each year. Image File history File links Hopman_Cup. ... For other uses, see Tennis (disambiguation). ... A tournament is a competition involving a relatively large number of competitors, all participating in a single sport or game. ... The Perth skyline viewed from the Swan River This article is about the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia. ... Capital Perth Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Ken Michael Premier Alan Carpenter (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 15  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $100,900 (4th)  - Product per capita  $50,355/person (3rd) Population (December 2006)  - Population  2,050,900 (4th)  - Density  0. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Format

Unlike other major international team tennis tournaments like the Davis Cup and the Fed Cup, 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. Players are invited to attend, national coaches not being involved in selecting teams. The great Australians Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall with the Cup in 1953 The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in mens tennis. ... The Fed Cup (until 1995 Federation Cup) is the most important tennis tournament for female national teams, very similar to the mens Davis Cup. ...

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 will not be occurring, due to the Asian Qualifying Tournament creating the 8th 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 do not have much of an impact, as all teams meet each other regardless. 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 substituted.

Venue

The matches are played at an indoor hardcourt venue - the Burswood Dome at the Burswood Entertainment Complex. The tournament is a sanctioned event in the calendar of the International Tennis Federation (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 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 diamonds from the Argyle diamond mine in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Hardcourt describes a form of surface or floor on which a sport is played. ... Burswood Resort and Casino The Burswood Entertainment Complex ( ) is located on the Swan River some five minutes from the city of Perth, Western Australia. ... The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, made up of 202 national tennis associations. ... The Australian Open is the first of the worlds four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, held each January at Melbourne Park. ... This article is about the gemstone. ... The Argyle diamond mine (, ) is a diamond mine located in the north-east of Western Australia. ... The Kimberley is one of the nine regions of Western Australia, consisting of the local government areas of Broome, Derby-West Kimberley, Halls Creek and Wyndham-East Kimberley. ...

Harry Hopman

The championship is named in honour of Harry Hopman (1906-1985), an Australian tennis player and coach who guided the country to no less than 15 Davis Cup titles in the 1938-1969 period. Henry Christian (Harry) Hopman (12 August 1906 - 27 December 1985) was a world-acclaimed tennis player and coach, born in Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales and soon moving to Parramatta, a city adjoining Sydney, Australia and now effectively a suburb of the metropolis. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A player of a game is a participant therein. ... In sports, a coach or manager is an individual involved in the direction and instruction of the on-field operations of an athletic team or of individual athletes. ... The great Australians Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall with the Cup in 1953 The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in mens tennis. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ...

Since the Hopman Cup was founded, it has been attended every year by the late-Harry Hopman's wife, Lucy, who travels to the tournament annually from her home in the United States. 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, who played a key role in the founding of the championships. Paul McNamee (b. ...

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 technology. Hawk-Eye is a computer system used in cricket and other sports to track the path of the ball. ...

The XX Hopman Cup, in 2008, will be the last to be held at the Burswood Dome.

January 6 2007 Hopman XIX Cup: Following Russia's dual singles victory over Spain was a proset mixed doubles between Russia: Dimitry Tursunov and Nadia Petrova and Spain: Tommy Robredo and Anabel Medina Garrigues. This match was a clear show of the playful nature of Tursunov and the other players. The match was relaxed, since the outcome of the mixed doubles proset match did not matter. At one stage Anabel Medina Garrigues switched with Tursunov so that Tursunov and Robredo was on one side, while Medina Garrigues and Petrova was on the other. The umpire, playing along assigned points to spain regardless. Later as the players went to the chairs (not their own), the players began going through each others bags. With Petrova and Anabel Medina Garrigues playing cards and Tursunov applying hairspray to robredo and slipping one of Petrova's spare tennis tops. Tursunov later utilised a pair of tennis balls to fill the lacking chest cavity.

Past Champions

Year	Winning Country	Players
2007	Russia	Dmitry Tursunov & Nadia Petrova
2006	USA	Taylor Dent & Lisa Raymond
2005	Slovakia	Dominik Hrbatý & Daniela Hantuchová
2004	USA	James Blake & Lindsay Davenport
2003	USA	James Blake & Serena Williams
2002	Spain	Tommy Robredo & Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
2001	Switzerland	Roger Federer & Martina Hingis
2000	South Africa	Wayne Ferreira & Amanda Coetzer
1999	Australia	Mark Philippoussis & Jelena Dokić
1998	Slovakia	Karol Kučera & Karina Habšudová
1997	USA	Justin Gimelstob & Chanda Rubin
1996	Croatia	Goran Ivanišević & Iva Majoli
1995	Germany	Boris Becker & Anke Huber
1994	Czech Republic	Petr Korda & Jana Novotná
1993	Germany	Michael Stich & Steffi Graf
1992	Switzerland	Jakob Hlasek & Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere
1991	Yugoslavia	Goran Prpić & Monica Seles
1990	Spain	Emilio Sánchez & Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
1989	Czechoslovakia	Miloslav Mečíř & Helena Suková

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2007 Final

	Russia	2	0	Spain
Burswood Entertainment Complex, Perth 5 January 2007, 17:00 AWST UTC+8 hard (indoors)
1 2 3 1 Nadia Petrova Anabel Medina Garrigues 6 0 6 4     2 Dmitry Tursunov Tommy Robredo 6 4 7 5     3 Nadia Petrova / Dmitry Tursunov Anabel Medina Garrigues / Tommy Robredo       not played

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Multiple Titles

See also

• 2007 Hopman Cup
• Burswood Dome
• Harry Hopman
• Davis Cup
• Fed Cup
• World Team Cup

The 2007 Hopman Cup corresponds to the 19th edition of the tournament between nations in mens and womens tennis. ... Burswood Resort and Casino Burswood International Resort Casino is located on the Swan River some five minutes from the city of Perth, Western Australia. ... Henry Christian (Harry) Hopman (12 August 1906 - 27 December 1985) was a world-acclaimed tennis player and coach, born in Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales and soon moving to Parramatta, a city adjoining Sydney, Australia and now effectively a suburb of the metropolis. ... The great Australians Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall with the Cup in 1953 The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in mens tennis. ... The Fed Cup (until 1995 Federation Cup) is the most important tennis tournament for female national teams, very similar to the mens Davis Cup. ... The World Team Cup is the international team championship of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). ...

External links

• Hopman Cup
• Host broadcaster coverage web site
• History of winners/players/margins
• Host broadcaster - 2006 finals report