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The Hopman Cup is an international that plays mixed teams (one male and one female) on a country-by-country basis. It was first held in , Western Australia each year from 1989 to 2019, played on indoor , before being replaced on the calendar in 2020 by the now defunct , which was in turn replaced by the . 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 , Italy on hard courts.


History
The Hopman Cup was created in 1989. The championship is named in honour of (1906–1985), an Australian tennis player and coach who guided the country to 15 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 technology. Up to and including 2012, the venue was the 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 was due for completion. From 2013 to 2019, it was played at the .

From 2014 to 2019, the Hopman Cup tournament director was after the resignation of Steve Ayles. Previously, the former Australian tennis player , 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 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 , Puglia, Italy, from July 16 to 20.


Format
Unlike other major international team tennis tournaments such as the and the , 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 until 1994, then by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1995–2010). From 2011, a five-year deal to broadcast the competition was signed by , 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 broadcast the tournament in 2019. In 2025, the official broadcaster was TV.


Records and statistics

Finals by year
19892–0 Helena SukováMiloslav MečířHana Mandlíková
19902–1 Arantxa Sánchez VicarioEmilio Sánchez
19913–0 Goran Prpić
19922–1 Helena SukováKarel Nováček
19932–0 Arantxa SánchezEmilio Sánchez
19942–1 Jana Novotná
1995 (2)2–0 Natalia MedvedevaAndrei Medvedev
19962–1 Goran Ivanišević
19972–1
19982–1 Karina HabšudováKarol KučeraCédric Pioline
19992–1 Jelena DokićMark Philippoussis Åsa CarlssonJonas Björkman
20003–0 Tamarine TanasugarnParadorn Srichaphan
2001 (2)2–1 Jan-Michael Gambill
2002 (2)2–1 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (2) (2)Jan-Michael Gambill (2)
2003 (2)3–0 James Blake
2004 (3)2–1 Lindsay DavenportJames Blake (2)Daniela HantuchováKarol Kučera
2005 (2)3–0 Daniela HantuchováDominik Hrbatý
2006 (4)2–1 Michaëlla Krajicek
20072–0 Anabel Medina Garrigues
2008 (5)2–1 (2)Jelena Janković
2009 (3)2–0 Dominika CibulkováDominik Hrbatý (2)
2010 (3)2–1 María JM Sánchez (2)Laura Robson
2011 (6)2–1 Bethanie Mattek-Sands
2012 (2)2–0 Petra KvitováTomáš Berdych
2013 (4)2–1 Anabel Medina GarriguesFernando Verdasco (2)
2014 2–1 Alizé CornetJo-Wilfried TsongaAgnieszka Radwańska
2015 2–1 Agnieszka Radwańska
2016 (2)2–0 Alexandr Dolgopolov
2017 (2)2–1 Kristina Mladenovic
2018 (3)2–1 (2)
2019 (4)2–1 (2) (3) (2) (2)
No competition
2023 (2)2–0 Donna VekićBorna ĆorićCéline Naef
No competition
20252–1 Félix Auger-Aliassime


Performance by team
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


Participation details
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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.

+Italicnon-existing teams (3)

in last 2 columns highlighted are best and worst +/- ratio

05100–0
331490–0
0120–0
1150–0
07101–0
0110–0
03+160–1
0130–10
0250–02
0340–0
312160–0
3430–0
0120–0
324311–0
618270–0
09130–0
0110–1
0121–0
0230–01
0110–0
010181–0
04+160–20
0240–01
08112–0
0110–0
0000–1
0000–00
0220–0
0240–1
08150–0
0440–0
08121–0
010110–0
0000–00
0330–0
317190–0
19120–0
312110–0
0441–00
1440–0
230400–0
0131–00
1320–0
00+110–2
Notes


Asian Hopman Cup
Host: IndiaWinner: IndiaParticipants: 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: ThailandWinner: Chinese TaipeiParticipants: 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: KazakhstanWinner: Chinese TaipeiParticipants: China, Chinese Taipei, India, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Thailand
Final
1. Chinese Taipei (RR W-L: 2–0; match W-L: 6–0)
2. India (RR W-L: 1–1; match W-L: 2–4)
3. South Korea (RR W-L: 0–2; match W-L: 1–5)
1. Kazakhstan (RR W-L: 2–0; match W-L: 5–1)
2. Thailand (RR W-L: 1–1; match W-L: 3–3)
3. China (RR W-L: 0–2; match W-L: 1–5)
Chinese Taipei d Kazakhstan 2-0
Chinese Taipei d India 3–0
Chinese Taipei d South Korea 3–0
India d South Korea 2–1
Kazakhstan d Thailand 2–1
Kazakhstan d China 3–0
Thailand d China 2–1
Host: KazakhstanWinner: KazakhstanParticipants: China, Chinese Taipei, India, Kazakhstan, Thailand
Final
Kazakhstan d Chinese Taipei 2-1


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