Tournament
Hopman Cup
Update
The 2024 Hopman Cup, which takes place in the Cote d’Azur, has been postponed due to its proximity to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and event partner Tennium have announced. The event will return in 2025.
History
The Hopman Cup was co-founded by three Australian tennis players and friends, Paul McNamee, Charlie Fancutt and Pat Cash, who dedicated the event to the legendary Harry Hopman, who captained Australia to 16 Davis Cup victories. Their dream was for the Hopman Cup, a team event for men and women, to one day stand alongside the ITF’s flagship team events, the Davis Cup for men and the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge for women.
Commencing in December 1988, with the support of the Western Australian Government, the Hopman Cup was conducted at the Burswood Dome for 24 years, with the ‘Hopman Cup family’ guidance of Lesley and Paul McNamee, after which it moved to a new home, the purpose-built Perth Arena.
The Hopman Cup is a fitting tribute to the man it was named after and the many people who helped create it.
Organisation
Tennium is a global tennis platform whose vision is to become a major force in world tennis by creating integrated synergistic business lines under a platform that brings together different parts of the same sport.
Headquartered in Barcelona and present in Argentina, Belgium, and the United States, the company is led by Belgian, Kristoff Puelinckx and former French tennis player, Sebastien Grosjean.
It currently owns the ATP250 tournaments in Antwerp (Belgium) and Buenos Aires (Argentina), as well as the Senior Masters Cup in Spain. Recently, it was awarded the management of the Trofeu Conde de Godó, the ATP500 in Barcelona and has signed its first WTA in Argentina for 2021.
Tournament director
Iva Majoli is a former professional tennis player, born on August 12, 1977 in Zagreb, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.