The Hopman Cup XXVI (also known as the Hyundai Hopman Cup for sponsorship reasons) corresponded to the 26th edition of the Hopman Cup tournament between nations in men's and women's tennis. The tournament commenced on 28 December 2013 at the Perth Arena in Perth, Western Australia.
Eight teams competed 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 returned to defend their title, however, in 2014, Medina Garrigues was paired with Daniel Muñoz de la Nava—a replacement for the injured Tommy Robredo—and the nation failed to defend their title, finishing at the bottom of Group B.
On 17 July, France were the first team to confirm their entry into this year's edition; and were to be originally represented by Marion Bartoli and former Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga;Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli to play Hopman Cup | Tennis - News , NDTVSports.com however, with Bartoli retiring in August, it was announced in October that Tsonga will instead pair with Alizé Cornet. After two previous runner-up showings, the nation won its first Hopman Cup title by defeating top seeds Poland in the final by two rubbers to one.France wins Hopman Cup title for the first time, beating Poland 2-1 in the final, ABC Grandstand Sport (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 5 January 2014
Tournament The 2014 Hyundai Hopman Cup was an invitational tennis tournament and was also known as the Official Mixed Teams Championships of the ITF. The 2014 cup had prize money of $1 million and followed the traditional round robin format, the leading teams after three round robin matches qualify for the final. All matches were 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 were 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 were 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 Seeds The seeds for the 2014 Hopman Cup were decided by tournament director Steve Ayles, Paul Kilderry, Kim Hames and Terry Waldron.
Seed Team Female player Male player1Agnieszka Radwańska Grzegorz Panfil2Sloane StephensJohn Isner3Alizé CornetJo-Wilfried Tsonga4Eugenie BouchardMilos Raonic5Petra KvitováRadek Štěpánek6Flavia PennettaAndreas Seppi7Samantha StosurBernard Tomic8Anabel Medina GarriguesDaniel Muñoz de la Nava
Replacement players pre-tournament Team Replacement Original player ReasonAlizé CornetMarion BartoliRetirement from tennisGrzegorz PanfilJerzy JanowiczMetatarsus injuryDaniel Muñoz de la NavaTommy RobredoRight arm injury
in-tournament temporary replacements Team Replacement Original player Reason Oliver AndersonAndreas SeppiIllness Bojana BobusicFlavia PennettaWrist injury Milos RaonicJohn IsnerLeg injury Bojana Bobusic Oliver AndersonSloane Stephens John IsnerWrist injury Leg injury
Group stage
Group A All times are local (UTC+8).
Standings Pos.CountryWLMatchesSetsGames1 3 0 7–2 15–7 106–792 2 1 6–3 13–8 104–773 1 2 2–7 5–14 51–1034 0 3 3–6 9–13 97–99
Poland vs. Italy
The mixed doubles match was played with Australian junior Oliver Anderson playing for Seppi.
Canada vs. Australia
Poland vs. Canada
Italy vs. Australia
Italy vs. Canada
The mixed doubles match was played with Australian Bojana Bobusic playing for Flavia Pennetta.
Poland vs. Australia
Group B All times are local (UTC+8).
Standings Pos.CountryWLMatchesSetsGames1307–215–6114–782217–214–597–483124–59–1172–954030–92–1852–119
Czech Republic vs. Spain
United States vs. Spain
France vs. Czech Republic
United States vs. France
France vs. Spain
Czech Republic vs. United States
The Men's Singles match was played with Canadian Milos Raonic playing for John Isner. The Mixed Doubles match was played with Australian's Bobusic & Anderson playing for Stephens & Isner.
Final
References
External links Official Site