The mixed-gender Hopman Cup staff event will make a return in 2023 after shedding its New Year slot on the tennis calendar, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) has mentioned.
However the event, named after Australian nice Harry Hopman and held in Perth for 3 a long time, will transfer to Europe with the subsequent version performed in Nice, France from July 19-23.
The Nice Lawn Tennis Club will host the occasion as much as 2027 as a part of a five-year contract between the ITF and Barcelona-based firm Tennium, which function a number of ATP and WTA tournaments.
“The Hopman Cup, as a unique mixed-team event, has always enjoyed a special place in the hearts of tennis fans, and I am sure that spectators in Nice will relish the chance to see some of the world’s top men and women players on the same court,” ITF President David Haggerty mentioned on Tuesday.
As in earlier editions, groups could have one male and one feminine participant, with ties that includes a males’s singles match, a ladies’s singles and a combined doubles.
The ITF mentioned six nations will compete within the 2023 and 2024 editions, with the competitors increasing to eight groups from 2025 onwards. France will participate every year as hosts.
In the final version of the event, which started in 1989, Roger Federer led Switzerland to the title in opposition to Germany in 2019.
The short-lived ATP Cup males’s staff competitors had taken the Hopman Cup’s pre-Australian Open warm-up slot.
A brand new mixed-sex $US15 million ($A22m) event – the United Cup – that includes groups from 18 nations taking part in matches throughout three Australian cities will kick off the 2023 tennis season.
The inaugural United Cup will begin on December 29 and run by way of to the ultimate in Sydney on January. 8.
