Australia At The Hopman Cup
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Australia is a nation that has competed at each edition of the
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 ...
tournament since the inaugural event in
1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs ...
. Australia won the title 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 shoot ...
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 replace Wayne Arthurs after the first tie as Arthurs had suffered a tear in his calf muscle.
5 Wolfe competed under her maiden name, Gajdošová, in her first appearance at the event in 2012.


Results

1 Two of the losses in the final tie against Japan were walkovers, as a result of Mark Philippoussis not being able to compete in either the singles or the mixed doubles.
2 Australia was forced to forfeit the entire tie against Spain as Lleyton Hewitt was diagnosed with chickenpox.
3 In the final tie against Slovakia, Alicia Molik had to retire during her singles match and forfeit the doubles match due to a foot injury. Despite this, they finished top of their group but because of Molik's injury, did not compete in the final.
4 Australia was represented by two teams for that year's competition.


References

{{National sports teams of Australia Hopman Hopman Cup teams