The Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF) has introduced that the Hopman Cup, the ITF’s official blended staff competitors, will return for the 2023 tennis season. The competitors will likely be operated by Hopman Cup occasion promoter, Tennium, and hosted in Good, France on 19-23 July 2023.
Final performed in 2019, the Hopman Cup has loved an illustrious historical past as a novel fixture on the annual tennis calendar. The occasion has featured a who’s who of the worldwide sport with legends comparable to Roger Federer, Serena Williams, Novak Djokovic, Steffi Graf, John McEnroe, Martina Hingis, Boris Becker, Li Na and Andy Murray representing their nation in each singles and blended doubles. Based in 1989, the occasion spent its first 30 years in Perth, Australia, and was performed within the opening week of the tennis season.
The distinguished Good Garden Tennis Membership will host the worldwide blended staff occasion from 2023 to 2027, as a part of a five-year settlement between the ITF and Tennium, a Barcelona-based firm who function a number of ATP and WTA occasions.
As in earlier editions of the competitors, every staff will consist of 1 male and one feminine participant, with ties between nations that includes one males’s singles match, one ladies’s singles match and a blended doubles match. Six groups will compete within the 2023 and 2024 editions, with the competitors increasing to eight groups from 2025 onwards. As hosts, France will subject a staff every year.
The Hopman Cup was named after famend Australian Davis Cup captain, Harry Hopman. Along with a massively profitable enjoying profession that noticed him attain three Australian Open singles finals and win seven Grand Slam titles throughout males’s and blended doubles, Hopman led the Australian staff to a report 16 titles between 1939 and 1967. Hopman’s widow, Lucy, was an everyday attendee on the Hopman Cup in Perth till her loss of life on the age of 98 in 2018.
David Haggerty, ITF President, mentioned: “We’re thrilled to companion with Tennium and that the Hopman Cup will return in 2023. We’re already wanting ahead to visiting the gorgeous metropolis of Good subsequent July. The Hopman Cup, as a novel blended staff occasion, has at all times loved a particular place within the hearts of tennis followers, and I’m certain that spectators in Good will relish the possibility to see a few of the world’s high women and men gamers on the identical court docket. I wish to thank our occasion companions, Tennium, for serving to us reintroduce the Hopman Cup to the tennis calendar, and we sit up for working collectively over the approaching months and years.”
Kristoff Puelinckx, Tennium CEO, mentioned: “We wish to thank the Worldwide Tennis Federation for entrusting Tennium to carry the Hopman Cup again to the worldwide tennis circuit. We’re wanting ahead to constructing out this nice occasion, by leveraging our in depth expertise with tournaments, gamers, and followers from world wide. We are going to work intently with the ITF to make sure this occasion continues to be a milestone on the tennis calendar and we consider that Good is the proper stage for it.”
Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Good and a former skilled motorcyclist, mentioned: “This occasion confirms as soon as once more that Good is a privileged vacation spot for the most important worldwide sporting occasions. After the Grand Départ of the Tour de France in 2020, the High 14 semi-finals in 2022, the Hopman Cup will precede the Rugby World Cup by a couple of weeks, after which the arrival of the Tour de France in July 2024. Tennis is a significant sport in Good, a self-discipline that has a robust historical past, with a membership that’s greater than 100 years previous, and nice gamers who’ve marked French tennis.”
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