Tournament
The Nice Lawn Tennis Club will host the event up to 2027 as part of a five-year deal between the International Tennis Federation and Barcelona-based company Tennium, which operate multiple ATP and WTA tournaments. After Steve Ayles’ resignation in 2014, the tournament director for the Hopman Cup was Paul Kilderry. If a player is injured, they may be replaced by a player good of a lower national ranking. Galopin Des Champs stormed to a seven-length victory in 2023, and defended his crown last year despite having to contend with the unwelcome presence of a loose horse. “I’ve had some wonderful horses here. If he does the treble, we’ll probably have to give him that accolade, but until then we’ll wait,” said Mullins, 68. Only four horses, including the legendary Arkle and Best Mate, have ever won a hat-trick of Gold Cups.
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Retired jockey Barry Geraghty, who rode 43 Cheltenham Festival winners, is confident he has what it takes to win it again. However, no-one knows how to train a Cheltenham Festival winner better than Mullins, who celebrated a century of them last year and is the leading trainer so far this week. Townend claimed the fourth Mullins winner aboard 6-1 shot Jasmin De Vaux in the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle.
- The eight competing teams are separated into two groups of four (with two teams being seeded) and face-off against each of the other three teams in their group in a round-robin format.
- Eight horses will be trying to deny Galopin Des Champs on Friday, as the nine-year-old bids to become the first triple winner since Best Mate in 2004.
- He and Belinda Bencic became the first duo to successfully defend the championship, having won it the previous year.
- The event will be held in Nice, France, in 2023; it was announced in 2021.
- In addition, this was the largest tennis crowd in Western Australian history.
- Inothewayurthinkin had been added to the race as a supplementary entry six days earlier at a cost of £25,000 and it proved a shrewd investment, with nearly £280,00 going to the winning owner.
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These seedings guarantee that each group’s strength is roughly comparable. The best team from each group then competes in a championship match to determine the winner. Iva Majoli is a former professional tennis player, born on August 12, 1977 in Zagreb, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. 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.
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The 2006 Hopman Cup was the first tennis tournament to introduce the system that allows players to contest calls from line judges, powered by Hawk-Eye technology. Up to and including 2012, the venue was the Burswood Dome at the Burswood Entertainment Complex, Perth. The 20th edition, in 2008, was to be the last held at the Burswood Dome, however it was extended until 2012, by which time the new Perth Arena would be ready. Players are invited to attend and national coaches are not involved in selecting teams.
Later, ITF president David Haggerty revealed that the competition would resume in 2021. After the tournament did not occur in 2021, he said it would resume in 2022. The event will be held in Nice, France, in 2023; it was announced in 2021. Former Australian tennis player Paul McNamee, who was instrumental in establishing the championships, served as event director in the past. Harry Hopman (1906–1985) was an Australian tennis player and coach who led his nation to 15 Davis Cup victories between 1938 and 1969. Lucy, Hopman’s second wife, has traveled from the United States to every Hopman Cup since its inception in 1989.