BARI, Italy — This 12 months’s Hopman Cup can be performed within the southern Italian metropolis of Bari, the Worldwide Tennis Federation introduced Thursday.
The mixed-team match that includes squads from Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Canada and reigning champion Croatia is scheduled for July 16-20 — the week after Wimbledon.
Hopman Cup groups consist of 1 male and one feminine participant. Ties characteristic one males’s singles match, one ladies’s singles match and a blended doubles match. The match doesn’t award rating factors.
Host Italy can be represented by Jasmine Paolini and Flavio Cobolli. Gamers for different groups haven’t been named but.
Paolini was a finalist on the French Open and Wimbledon final 12 months and gained the ladies’s doubles titles on the Paris Olympics with accomplice Sara Errani.
Named after Australian nice Harry Hopman, the Hopman Cup began in 1989 and was performed yearly till 2020. It resumed in France in 2023 and was gained by Croatia’s Donna Vekic and Borna Coric.
For 30 years, the occasion was held in Perth, Australia, and was performed within the opening week of the tennis season.
Final 12 months’s occasion scheduled for Good, France, was canceled due to its proximity to the Olympics.
The transfer to Bari provides to a busy tennis schedule in Italy, which additionally hosts the ATP Finals and Davis Cup finals in November – plus the Italian Open in Might.