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.
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.
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:
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.
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 (2) | Jan-Michael Gambill (2) | |
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 (2) | |
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 (2) | Alexander Zverev (2) | |
No competition | |||||||
2023 | (2) | 2–0 | Donna Vekić | Borna Ćorić | Céline Naef | Leandro Riedi | |
No competition | |||||||
2025 | 2–1 | Bianca Andreescu | Félix Auger-Aliassime | Lucia Bronzetti | Flavio Cobolli |
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) |
5 |
31 |
W |
5 |
8 |
5 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
12 |
4''' |
2 |
26 |
18 |
9 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
11 |
6 |
2 |
8 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
8 |
3 |
1''' |
8 |
10 |
2''' |
19 |
9 |
13 |
2 |
4 |
30 |
1 |
3''' |
2 |
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) |
in last 2 columns highlighted are best and worst +/- ratio | ||
0 | 5 | 10 | 0–0 | — |
3 | 31 | 49 | 0–0 | — |
0 | 1 | 2 | 0–0 | — |
1 | 1 | 5 | 0–0 | — |
0 | 7 | 10 | 1–0 | — |
0 | 1 | 1 | 0–0 | — |
0 | 3+1 | 6 | 0–1 | — |
0 | 1 | 3 | 0–1 | 0 |
0 | 2 | 5 | 0–0 | 2 |
0 | 3 | 4 | 0–0 | — |
3 | 12 | 16 | 0–0 | — |
3 | 4 | 3 | 0–0 | — |
0 | 1 | 2 | 0–0 | — |
3 | 24 | 31 | 1–0 | — |
6 | 18 | 27 | 0–0 | — |
0 | 9 | 13 | 0–0 | — |
0 | 1 | 1 | 0–1 | — |
0 | 1 | 2 | 1–0 | — |
0 | 2 | 3 | 0–0 | 1 |
0 | 1 | 1 | 0–0 | — |
0 | 10 | 18 | 1–0 | — |
0 | 4+1 | 6 | 0–2 | 0 |
0 | 2 | 4 | 0–0 | 1 |
0 | 8 | 11 | 2–0 | — |
0 | 1 | 1 | 0–0 | — |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0–1 | — |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0–0 | 0 |
0 | 2 | 2 | 0–0 | — |
0 | 2 | 4 | 0–1 | — |
0 | 8 | 15 | 0–0 | — |
0 | 4 | 4 | 0–0 | — |
0 | 8 | 12 | 1–0 | — |
0 | 10 | 11 | 0–0 | — |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0–0 | 0 |
0 | 3 | 3 | 0–0 | — |
3 | 17 | 19 | 0–0 | — |
1 | 9 | 12 | 0–0 | — |
3 | 12 | 11 | 0–0 | — |
0 | 4 | 4 | 1–0 | 0 |
1 | 4 | 4 | 0–0 | — |
2 | 30 | 40 | 0–0 | — |
0 | 1 | 3 | 1–0 | 0 |
1 | 3 | 2 | 0–0 | — |
0 | 0+1 | 1 | 0–2 | — |
Host: India | Winner: India | Participants: China, Chinese Taipei, India, Japan, Philippines, Thailand |
Final | ||
1. India (RR W-L: 2–0; match W-L: 6–0) 2. China (RR W-L: 1–1; match W-L: 2–4) 3. Japan (RR W-L: 0–2; match W-L: 1–5) | 1. Chinese Taipei (RR W-L: 2–0; match W-L: 6–0) 2. Thailand (RR W-L: 1–1; match W-L: 2–4) 3. Philippines (RR W-L: 0–2; match W-L: 1–5) | India d Chinese Taipei 3–0 |
India d China 3–0 India d Japan 3–0 China d Japan 2–1 | Chinese Taipei d Thailand 3–0 Chinese Taipei d Philippines 3–0 Thailand d Philippines 2–1 |
Host: Thailand | Winner: Chinese Taipei | Participants: China, Chinese Taipei, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Uzbekistan |
Final | ||
1. Thailand (RR W-L: 2–0; match W-L: 5–0) 2. South Korea (RR W-L: 1–1; match W-L: 3–2) 3. China (RR W-L: 0–2; match W-L: 0–6) | 1. Chinese Taipei (RR W-L: 2–0; match W-L: 5–1) 2. Japan (RR W-L: 1–1; match W-L: 3–3) 3. Uzbekistan (RR W-L: 0–2; match W-L: 1–5) | Chinese Taipei d Thailand 2–1 |
Thailand d South Korea 2–0 Thailand d China 3–0 South Korea d China 3–0 | Chinese Taipei d Japan 2–1 Chinese Taipei d Uzbekistan 3–0 Japan d Uzbekistan 2–1 |
Host: Kazakhstan | Winner: Kazakhstan | Participants: China, Chinese Taipei, India, Kazakhstan, Thailand |
Final | ||
Kazakhstan d Chinese Taipei 2-1 |
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