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Yugoslavia At The Hopman Cup
Yugoslavia is a nation that competed at three consecutive Hopman Cup tournaments before the breakup of the country in the early 1990s. It first competed in the inaugural Hopman Cup in 1989. Yugoslavia won the tournament on one occasion, in 1991. Players This is a list of players who have played for Yugoslavia in the Hopman Cup. Results References See also Croatia at the Hopman Cup Serbia and Montenegro at the Hopman Cup {{National sports teams of Yugoslavia Hopman Cup teams Hopman Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Hopman Cup
The 1989 Hopman Cup was the first edition to the Hopman Cup tennis event located at the Burswood Entertainment Complex in Perth, Western Australia. The event was held from 28 December 1988 through 1 January 1989. Miloslav Mečíř and Helena Suková of Czechoslovakia beat the Australian team of Hana Mandlíková and Pat Cash. Teams Seeds # – Helena Suková and Miloslav Mečíř ''(champions)'' # – Pat Cash and Hana Mandlíková ''(finalists) # – Steffi Graf and Patrik Kühnen ''(semifinalists) # – Catarina Lindqvist and Mikael Pernfors ''(semifinalists) Unseeded * – Pascale Paradis and Thierry Tulasne ''(first round) * – Sarah Loosemore and Jeremy Bates (tennis), Jeremy Bates ''(first round) * – Masako Yanagi and Shuzo Matsuoka ''(first round) * – Karmen Škulj and Slobodan Živojinović ''(first round) Draw Quarterfinals Czechoslovakia vs. Japan Sweden vs. Yugoslavia West Germany vs. France Australia vs. Great Britain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia At The Hopman Cup
Australia is a nation that has competed at each edition of the Hopman Cup tournament since the inaugural event in 1989. Australia won the title in 1999 and 2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses duri ..., and finished as the runners up in 1989 and 2003. Players This is a list of players who have played for Australia in the Hopman Cup. 1 Baccanello replaced Mark Philippoussis in the 2005 tie against the USA after Philippoussis suffered two tears in an adductor muscle in his groin. 2 Bradtke competed under her maiden name, Provis, in the first two of her four appearances at the event. 3 Healy played Australia's final tie in 2007 against the USA after Mark Philippoussis injured his right knee during the tie against France. 4 Reid competed in 2006 after being brought in to rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbia And Montenegro At The Hopman Cup
Serbia is a nation that has competed at three Hopman Cup tournaments since it gained its independence following the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. It first competed in the 18th Hopman Cup in 2006 (under the name Serbia and Montenegro). Serbia has reached the final on three occasions; the first time in 2008 where they lost to the United States, in 2011 where they had to retire before the final was played due to an abdominal injury sustained by Ana Ivanovic, and in 2013 when they lost to Spain. Players This is a list of players who have played for Serbia in the Hopman Cup. Results 1 In the final, Janković was unable to play her singles match against Serena Williams of the USA due to injury. This gave the point to the US, giving them a one-point advantage going into the men's singles and mixed doubles matches. 2 Serbia finished top of their group in 2011 but due to an abdominal injury sustained by Ivanovic they were unable to participate in the final. They were inste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatia At The Hopman Cup
Croatia is a nation that has competed at three Hopman Cup tournaments since it gained its independence following the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. It first competed in the Hopman Cup in 1996 and went on to win the title that year. Sixteen years after last participation (2007) Croatia won second title at 2023. Players This is a list of players who have played for Croatia in the Hopman Cup. Results 1 In the 1996 final, it came down to the mixed doubles to decide the tournament champions. The Swiss team were forced to retire with the score at 5–5 in the final set when Marc Rosset injured his hand after punching an advertising board in anger. References See also Yugoslavia at the Hopman Cup Yugoslavia is a nation that competed at three consecutive Hopman Cup tournaments before the breakup of the country in the early 1990s. It first competed in the inaugural Hopman Cup in 1989. Yugoslavia won the tournament on one occasion, in 1991. ... {{Hopman Cup Hopman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States At The Hopman Cup ...
The United States has appeared at the Hopman Cup from the 2nd staging of the event in 1990. The United States has appeared in eleven Hopman Cup finals and have a record six victories. It is one of two countries to successfully defend the title (alongside Switzerland) and holds the record for consecutive final appearances at four. Players This is a list of players who have played for the United States in the Hopman Cup. 1 Shaughnessy represented the USA in the 2005 and 2009 competitions and also stood in for an ill Serena Williams in the 2008 tie against India. Results References {{National sports teams of the United States Hopman Cup teams Hopman Cup The Hopman Cup is an international eight-team indoor hardcourt tennis tournament that played mixed-gender teams on a country-by-country basis.It was held in Perth, Western Australia each year from 1989 to 2019, before being replaced on the calen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France At The Hopman Cup
France is a nation that has competed at twenty two Hopman Cup tournaments and first competed in the inaugural Hopman Cup in 1989. Their best results to date came in 2014, when they defeated Poland in the final by two rubbers to one, and in 2017 when they defeated the United States in the final, also by two rubbers to one. Players This is a list of players who have played for France in the Hopman Cup. Results 1 Having already won both singles matches and thus the tie, Germany decided not to compete in the final mixed doubles dead rubber against France, therefore conceding the point to France. 2 In 1993, the French team was forced to retire at 4–2 down in the mixed doubles, thus conceding the point to Germany and losing the tie. 3 In the final tie against Croatia in 1997, Guy Forget was unable to compete in either the men's singles or mixed doubles matches. Both points were therefore conceded to the Croatian team. 4 In their final round robin tie against Italy, France automatical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union At The Hopman Cup
The Soviet Union is a nation that competed at two consecutive Hopman Cup tournaments and first competed in the 2nd Hopman Cup in 1990. The Soviet Union never won a tie and as such never passed the quarterfinal stage of the tournament. Since Dissolution of the Soviet Union, the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, four of the fifteen independent states formed from the former Soviet Union have competed in the Hopman Cup. These are: Kazakhstan at the Hopman Cup, Kazakhstan, Russia at the Hopman Cup, Russia, Ukraine at the Hopman Cup, Ukraine and Uzbekistan at the Hopman Cup, Uzbekistan. Additionally, the CIS at the Hopman Cup, Commonwealth of Independent States also entered a team into the 1992 event. Players This is a list of players who have played for the Soviet Union in the Hopman Cup. Results References See also CIS at the Hopman Cup Kazakhstan at the Hopman Cup Russia at the Hopman Cup Ukraine at the Hopman Cup Uzbekistan at the Hopman Cup {{National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy At The Hopman Cup
Italy is a nation that has competed at the Hopman Cup tennis tournament on ten occasions. The nation's first appearance came at the 2nd staging of the event in 1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph .... Players This is a list of players who have played for Italy in the Hopman Cup. Results 1 The two points gained by Italy in the 2002 tie against France came as a result of the female French competitor, Virginie Razzano's retirement in the singles and subsequent inability to compete in the doubles. 2 Italy did not play the mixed doubles dead rubber against Australia in 2003, defaulting the point. 3 In 2009, the male competitor from Chinese Taipei was unable to compete in either of his matches, thus defaulting two points to the Italians and contributing to the event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden At The Hopman Cup
Sweden is a nation that has competed at the Hopman Cup tournament on eight occasions, their first appearance coming at the 1st annual staging of the event in 1989. They have been runner-up in one tournament in 1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin .... Players This is a list of players who have played for Sweden at the Hopman Cup. References {{Hopman Cup Hopman Cup teams Hopman Cup Hopman Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Hopman Cup
The 1991 Hopman Cup was the third edition of the Hopman Cup, an international mixed teams tournament played at the Burswood Entertainment Complex in Perth, Western Australia. The event was held from 27 December 1990 through 4 January 1991. Twelve teams competed in the tournament with the top four seeded teams (United States, Spain, Switzerland and the Soviet Union) each receiving a bye into the quarter-finals. The remaining eight teams played in the first round. In the final which was played on 4 January, Yugoslav pair, Goran Prpić and Monica Seles won both of their singles matches to defeat the American pair, Zina Garrison and David Wheaton without needing to go with the mixed doubles (which was also won by Yugoslavia). Teams Seeds # – Zina Garrison and David Wheaton ''(Finalists)'' # – Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Emilio Sánchez ''(Quarterfinalists)'' # – Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere and Jakob Hlasek ''(Semifinalists)'' # – Natalia Zvereva and Andrei Chesnokov ''( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with most of the metropolitan area on the Swan Coastal Plain between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The city has expanded outward from the original British settlements on the Swan River, upon which the city's central business district and port of Fremantle are situated. Perth is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people, where Aboriginal Australians have lived for at least 45,000 years. Captain James Stirling founded Perth in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony. It was named after the city of Perth in Scotland, due to the influence of Stirling's patron Sir George Murray, who had connections with the area. It gained city statu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burswood Dome
The Dome at Crown Perth (originally the Burswood Superdome and formerly the Burswood Dome) was a multipurpose indoor arena used for sports and entertainment. The dome was in size, with seating for 13,600 people. The whole arena was pressurised so that the fibreglass roof was suspended above the ground. It was a venue for indoor sports, notably the Hopman Cup tennis tournament, which was moved to the Perth Arena for the 2013 and future events, and for pop music concerts. Many notable artists performed there, the record attendance being 20,000 for Cliff Richard & The Shadows. Other performers since 1987 have included AC/DC, Kiss, U2, Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Gloria Estefan, Mariah Carey, Pink, Lady Gaga, Kylie Minogue, Elton John, Iron Maiden, Britney Spears, Beyoncé, The Black Eyed Peas, Guns N' Roses, Florence and the Machine, George Michael, Christina Aguilera, Delta Goodrem, Gwen Stefani, Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Linkin Park, Rihanna, Roger Waters and T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
