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Hopman Cup
International tennis tournament
The Hopman Cup is an international tennistournament that plays mixed-gender teams on a country-by-country basis.[1] It was first held in Perth, Western Australia each year from to , played on indoor hardcourt, before being replaced on the calendar in by the now defunct ATP Cup.[2] The tournament was played in an eight-team format, with the exception for the years , with twelve teams competing. It returned in July in Nice, France, played on outdoor clay, with six teams invited to participate.[3]
Format
[edit]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 calen
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Harry Hopman
Harry Hopman, the architect of Australia’s post World War II tennis supremacy, was born Henrick Christian Hopman on 12 August to John Henry Hopman (), then teaching at Burwood Public School, and Jennie Siberteen, née Glad (). After their marriage in St James Catholic Church Glebe in the Hopmans lived at Hampstead, 12 Oxley Street, before sharing space at Bridge Road with the bride’s widowed mother and her teenage daughter Muriel. By the Hopmans were at 15 Wigram Road in Minerva Terrace.
Born in Glebe in the years were: John Henry Glad, known as ‘Jack’, Julia Hester, Henrick called ‘Hal’ as a child, Muriel Elizabeth and Marjorie. In the Education Department moved John senior to Yass where Marie Cecilia and Frances Betty were born. Richard, ‘Dick’, the youngest, was born in at Glen Innes following a move from Bega. The parents’ last house was in Meredith Street Homebush, where John Henry senior died on 14 June and his widow on 8 June Five of their eight childr
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Harry Hopman
Australian tennis player (–)
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| Born | ()12 August Glebe, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 27 December () (aged&#;79) Seminole, Florida, USA |
| Height | &#;m (5&#;ft 7&#;in) |
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| Int. Tennis HoF | (member page) |
| Career&#;record | (%)[1] |
| Career&#;titles | 34[1] |
| Australian&#;Open | F (, , ) |
| French&#;Open | QF () |
| Wimbledon | 4R (, ) |
| US Open | QF (, ) |
| Career&#;record | 0–0 |
| Australian&#;Open | W (, ) |
| French&#;Open | F (, ) |
| US Open | F () |
| Australian&#;Open | W (, , , ) |
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| US Open | W () |
Henry Christian HopmanCBE (12 August – 27 December ) was an Australian tennis player and coach.
Early life
[edit]Harry Hopman was born on 12 August in Glebe, Sydney as the third child of John Henry Hopman, a schoolteacher, and Jennie Siberteen, née Glad. His family then moved to Parramatta.