Hopman Cup 17 1 January 2005 - 8 January 2005 - winner Slovak Republic

• Women's Final: Slovak Republic's Daniela Hantuchová defeated Argentina's Gisela Dulko
  • Sets: 1-6 6-4 6-4 (Commenced 0200UTC / Completed 0408UTC 8 January 2005)

• Men's Final: Slovak Republic's Dominik Hrbatý defeated Argentina's Guillermo Coria
  • Sets: 6-4 6-1

• Mixed Doubles Final: Slovak Republic's Daniela Hantuchová & Dominik Hrbatý defeated Argentina's Gisela Dulko & Guillermo Coria
  • Sets: 6-0 6-0 (forfeit by Argentina after injury to Coria)

The Hopman Cup is a annual tennis tournament held in Perth Western Australia between in late December and/or early January each year.

Championship Details

The championship:

• is named after Harry Hopman (1906-1985), an Australian tennis player and coach including the Davis Cup team;
• has been attended each year by Mrs Lucy Hopman, wife of Harry Hopman, who travels from the U.S.A.;
• is for mixed teams from 8 nations, consisting of one female and one male player, who play;
  • male and female singles matches;
  • a mixed doubles match;
• is decided on points between two groups of teams, with a final;
• is counted for world Tennis rankings ;
• uses an indoor, hardcourt venue - the Burswood Dome at Burswood Casino;
• was inaugurated in 1988-1989;
• is a sanctioned event in the calendar of the International Tennis Federation (ITF);
• is ranked in tennis circles alongside the Davis Cup for men and the Fed Cup for women;
• is considered by players to be a lead-up to the Australian Open;
• tournament director is former player Paul McNamee ;
• is broadcast on television by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (host broadcaster) and Fox TV Sports, Dubai Sports (Middle East), BSkyB (Britain), ESPN-Star Sports (Asia), SporTV (Brazil), Tennis Channel (U.S.A.), NTV Plus (Russia);

Prize

The winning team receives a silver cup perpetual trophy . Team members are presented with distinctive trophies in the shape of a tennis ball encrusted with diamonds from the Argyle diamond mine in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Winning Teams

1 28 December 1988 ? 1 January 1989 Czechoslovakia - Miloslav Mecir & Helena Sukova

2 26 December 1989 ? 1 January 1990 Spain - Emilio Sanchez & Arantxa Sáanchez Vicario

2 27 December 1990 ? 4 January 1991 Yugoslavia - Goran Prpic & Monica Seles

4 27 December 1991 ? 3 January 1992 Switzerland - Jakob Hlasek & Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere

5 2 January 1993 ? 8 January 1993 Germany - Michael Stich & Steffi Graf

6 31 December 1993 ? 7 January 1994 Czech Republic - Petr Korda & Jana Novotná

7 31 December 1994 ? 7 January 1995 Germany Boris Becker & Anke Huber

8 31 December 1995 ? 6 January 1996 Croatia - Goran Ivanisevic & Iva Majoli

9 28 December 1996 ? 4 January 1997 U.S.A. - Justin Gimelstob & Chanda Rubin

10 4 January 1998 ? 10 January 1998 Slovak Republic - Karol Kucera & Karina Hadsudova

11 2 January 1999 ? 9 January 1999 Australia - Mark Philippoussis & Jelena Dokic

12 1 January 2000 ? 8 January 2000 South Africa - Wayne Ferreira & Amanda Coetzer

13 30 December 2000 ? 6 January 2001 Switzerland - Roger Federer & Martina Hingis

14 29 December 2001 ? 5 January 2002 Spain - Tommy Robredo & Arantxa Sánchez Vicario

15 28 December 2002 ? 4 January 2003 U.S.A. - James Blake & Serena Williams

16 3 January 2004 ? 10 January 2004 U.S.A. - James Blake & Lindsay Davenport

17 1 January 2005 - 8 January 2005 won by Slovak Republic - Daniela Hantuchová & Dominik Hrbatý

Teams for Hopman Cup 17 - January 2005

• Group A
  • Russia - Anastasia Myskina & Marat Safin
  • Argentina - Gisela Dulko & Guillermo Coria
  • Italy - Francesca Schiavone & Davide Sanguinetti
  • Germany - Anna-Lena Groenefeld & Tommy Haas

• Group B
  • U.S.A. - Meghann Shaughnessy & James Blake
  • Slovak Republic - Daniela Hantuchová & Dominik Hrbatý
  • Australia - Alicia Molik & Mark Philippoussis (Paul Baccanello played last round, after injury to Philippoussis)
  • Netherlands - Michaella Krajicek & Peter Wessels
    • (after a play-off with Zimbabwe - Cara Black & Wayne Black )

See also

• List of female tennis players
• List of male tennis players

External Link

• Hopman Cup
• host broadcaster coverage web site
• history of winners/players/margins
• HC17 result story