2014 Hopman Cup

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Edition	XXVI

The Hopman Cup XXVI (also known as the Hyundai Hopman Cup for sponsorship reasons) corresponds to the 26th edition of the Hopman Cup tournament between nations in men's and women's tennis. The tournament will commence on the 29 December 2013 at the Perth Arena in Perth, Australia.

Eight teams will compete for the title, with two round robin groups of four, from which the top team of each group progress to the final.

Spain were the 2013 champions. In that tournament's final the Spain team of Anabel Medina Garrigues and Fernando Verdasco defeated Serbia's Ana Ivanovic and Novak Djokovic 2–1. This was Spain's fourth Hopman Cup title. They will return to defend their title, however, Medina Garrigues will be paired with Tommy Robredo in 2014.

On July 17, France were the first team to confirm their entry into this year's edition; and were be represented by Marion Bartoli and former Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. However, with Bartoli retiring in August, it was announced in October that Tsonga will instead pair with Alize Cornet.

Tournament

The 2014 Hyundai Hopman Cup is an invitational tennis tournament and is also known as the Official Mixed Teams Championships of the ITF. The 2014 cup has prize money of $1 million and will follow the traditional round robin format, the leading teams after three round robin matches qualify for the final. All matches are best of three sets with the exception of the doubles match where a match tie break, first to ten points, is played if the match is tied at one set all. All ties are played in this format; women's singles, men's singles and finally mixed doubles. In the event of a tie in the final group standings the following will be used to separate the nations;

• The highest total of matches won
• Best percentage of sets won and lost
• Best percentage of games won and lost
• Head to Head performances
• Toss of a coin

Entrants

1	France	Alizé Cornet	Jo-Wilfred Tsonga
2	Poland	Agnieszka Radwańska	Jerzy Janowicz
3	Australia	Samantha Stosur	Bernard Tomic
4	USA	Sloane Stephens	John Isner
5	Canada	Eugenie Bouchard	Milos Raonic
6	Italy	Flavia Pennetta	Andreas Seppi
7	Czech Republic	Petra Kvitová	Radek Štěpánek
8	Spain	Anabel Medina Garrigues	Tommy Robredo

Seeds

The seeds for the 2014 Hopman Cup will be decided by tournament director Steve Ayles, Paul Kilderry, Kim Hames and Terry Waldron.

Seed	Team	Female Player	Male Player
1	Poland	Agnieszka Radwańska	Jerzy Janowicz
2	United States	Sloane Stephens	John Isner
3	France	Alizé Cornet	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
4	Canada	Eugenie Bouchard	Milos Raonic
5	Czech Republic	Petra Kvitová	Radek Štěpánek
6	Italy	Flavia Pennetta	Andreas Seppi
7	Australia	Samantha Stosur	Bernard Tomic
8	Spain	Anabel Medina Garrigues	Tommy Robredo

Please note that these are provisional seeds only and are subject to change.

Group stage

Group A

All times are local (UTC+8).

Standings

Pos.	Country	W	L	Matches	Sets	Games
1	Poland
2	Canada
3	Italy
4	Australia

Poland vs. Italy

Poland	Perth Arena, Perth 28 December 2013, 10:00 Hard (indoors)		Italy
1 2 3 1 Agnieszka Radwańska Flavia Pennetta         2 Jerzy Janowicz Andreas Seppi         3 Agnieszka Radwańska / Jerzy Janowicz Flavia Pennetta / Andreas Seppi

Canada vs. Australia

Canada	Perth Arena, Perth 28 December 2013, 5:30 Hard (indoors)		Australia
1 2 3 1 Eugenie Bouchard Samantha Stosur         2 Milos Raonic Bernard Tomic         3 Eugenie Bouchard / Milos Raonic Samantha Stosur / Bernard Tomic

Poland vs. Canada

Poland	Perth Arena, Perth 29 December 2013, 5:30 Hard (indoors)		Canada
1 2 3 1 Agnieszka Radwańska Eugenie Bouchard         2 Jerzy Janowicz Milos Raonic         3 Agnieszka Radwańska / Jerzy Janowicz Eugenie Bouchard / Milos Raonic

Italy vs. Australia

Italy	Perth Arena, Perth 31 December 2013, 10:00 Hard (indoors)		Australia
1 2 3 1 Flavia Pennetta Samantha Stosur         2 Andreas Seppi Bernard Tomic         3 Flavia Pennetta / Andreas Seppi Samantha Stosur / Bernard Tomic

Italy vs. Canada

Italy	Perth Arena, Perth 2 January 2014, 10:00 Hard (indoors)		Canada
1 2 3 1 Flavia Pennetta Eugenie Bouchard         2 Andreas Seppi Milos Raonic         3 Flavia Pennetta / Andreas Seppi Eugenie Bouchard / Milos Raonic

Poland vs. Australia

Poland	Perth Arena, Perth 2 January 2014, 5:30 Hard (indoors)		Australia
1 2 3 1 Agnieszka Radwańska Samantha Stosur         2 Jerzy Janowicz Bernard Tomic         3 Agnieszka Radwańska / Jerzy Janowicz Samantha Stosur / Bernard Tomic

Group B

All times are local (UTC+8).

Standings

Pos.	Country	W	L	Matches	Sets	Games
1	United States
2	France
3	Czech Republic
4	Spain

Czech Republic vs. Spain

Czech Republic	Perth Arena, Perth 29 December 2013, 10:00 Hard (indoors)		Spain
1 2 3 1 Petra Kvitová Anabel Medina Garrigues         2 Radek Štěpánek Tommy Robredo         3 Petra Kvitová / Radek Štěpánek Anabel Medina Garrigues / Tommy Robredo

United States vs. Spain

United States	Perth Arena, Perth 30 December 2013, 10:00 Hard (indoors)		Spain
1 2 3 1 Sloane Stephens Anabel Medina Garrigues         2 John Isner Tommy Robredo         3 Sloane Stephens / John Isner Anabel Medina Garrigues / Tommy Robredo

France vs. Czech Republic

France	Perth Arena, Perth 30 December 2013, 5:30 Hard (indoors)		Czech Republic
1 2 3 1 Alizé Cornet Petra Kvitová         2 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Radek Štěpánek         3 Alizé Cornet / Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Petra Kvitová / Radek Štěpánek

United States vs. France

United States	Perth Arena, Perth 1 January 2014, 5:30 Hard (indoors)		France
1 2 3 1 Sloane Stephens Alizé Cornet         2 John Isner Jo-Wilfried Tsonga         3 Sloane Stephens / John Isner Alizé Cornet / Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

France vs. Spain

France	Perth Arena, Perth 3 January 2014, 10:00 Hard (indoors)		Spain
1 2 3 1 Alizé Cornet Anabel Medina Garrigues         2 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Tommy Robredo         3 Alizé Cornet / Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Anabel Medina Garrigues / Tommy Robredo

Czech Republic vs. United States

Czech Republic	Perth Arena, Perth 3 January 2014, 5:30 Hard (indoors)		United States
1 2 3 1 Petra Kvitová Sloane Stephens         2 Radek Štěpánek John Isner         3 Petra Kvitová / Radek Štěpánek Sloane Stephens / John Isner

External links

• Official Site