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36-553: The Dome at Crown Perth (originally the Burswood Superdome and formerly the Burswood Dome ) was a multi-purpose indoor arena used for sports and entertainment. The dome was 8,800 square metres (95,000 sq ft) in size, with seating for 13,600 people. The whole arena was pressurised so that the fibreglass roof was suspended 35 metres (115 ft) above the ground. It was a venue for indoor sports, notably

72-663: A country-by-country basis. It was first held in Perth , Western Australia each year from 1989 to 2019, played on indoor hardcourt , before being replaced on the calendar in 2020 by the now defunct ATP Cup . The tournament was played in an eight-team format, with the exception for the years 1990-1995, with twelve teams competing. It returned in July 2023 in Nice , France, played on outdoor clay, with six teams invited to participate. Unlike other major international team tennis tournaments such as

108-611: A drug-testing program. In May 1973 Nikola Pilić , Yugoslavia's number one tennis player, was suspended by his national lawn tennis association, who claimed he had refused to play in a Davis Cup tie for his country earlier that month. The initial suspension of nine months, supported by the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) , was later reduced by the ILTF to one month which meant that Pilic would not be allowed to play at Wimbledon. In response,

144-695: A large monitor using Hawk-Eye technology. Up to and including 2012, the venue was the Burswood Dome at the Burswood Entertainment Complex . The 20th Hopman Cup, in 2008, was intended to be the last held at the Burswood Dome, however this was extended until 2012 when the new Perth Arena was due for completion. From 2013 to 2019, it was played at the Perth Arena . From 2014 to 2019, the Hopman Cup tournament director

180-975: A level below the ATP Tour, and the ATP Champions Tour for seniors. Grand Slam tournaments, a small portion of the Olympic tennis tournament , the Davis Cup , the Hopman Cup and the introductory level Futures tournaments do not fall under the auspices of the ATP, but are overseen by the ITF instead and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the Olympics. In these events, however, ATP ranking points are still awarded, with

216-400: A state-controlled Perth Stadium on nearby land ensured that the dome would be removed. Government approval for demolition was granted on 31 May 2012, and demolition works started in July 2013 with the land to be used for 1000 car parking bays. The roof was deflated on 28 June 2013. Hopman Cup The Hopman Cup is an international tennis tournament that plays mixed-gender teams on

252-529: A total of up to 500 points. Players accumulate points over the four rounds and the playoffs and these are counted as one of a player's four best results from the 500 level events. An additional 125 points are given to a player who wins all 8 live rubbers and wins the Davis Cup. The ATP Tour comprises ATP Masters 1000 , ATP 500 , and ATP 250 . The ATP also oversees the ATP Challenger Tour ,

288-619: Is still in use. From 1974 to 1989, the men's circuit was administered by a sub-committee called the Men's International Professional Tennis Council (MIPTC) . It was made up of representatives of the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the ATP, and tournament directors from around the world. The ATP successfully requested that the MIPTC introduce a drug testing rule, making tennis the first professional sport to institute

324-678: The A-League 's Perth Glory while renovations were taking place at their usual home, Perth Oval , though the Glory eventually decided to stay at the Oval rather than play inside the Dome on an artificial surface. The Dome was also the venue used for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) shows in Perth while on their Australian tours. By October 2010, firm plans for Crown's major new hotel development and for

360-589: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1995–2010). From 2011, a five-year deal to broadcast the competition was signed by Network Ten , a deal that ended abruptly in November 2013. The Seven Network's 7mate channel subsequently picked up the telecasting rights. The Nine Network broadcast the tournament in 2019. After 2019 edition Note 1: Teams with index 2 include results only of lower placed team of every appearance in

396-555: The Davis Cup and the Fed Cup , which are for men or women only, the Hopman Cup is a mixed competition in which male and female players are on combined teams and represent their countries. Players are invited to attend and national coaches are not involved in selecting teams. The tournament is a sanctioned official event in the calendar of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) but, while individual player results are tallied, they are not regarded as official ATP matches or included in

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432-552: The Hopman Cup tennis tournament from 1989 until 2012, which was moved to the Perth Arena for the 2013 and future events, and for pop music concerts. Many notable artists performed there, the record attendance being 20,000 for Cliff Richard & The Shadows . Other performers since 1987 have included AC/DC , Kiss , U2 , Mick Jagger , Michael Jackson , Gloria Estefan , Mariah Carey , Pink , Lady Gaga , Kylie Minogue , Elton John , Iron Maiden , Britney Spears , Beyoncé , The Black Eyed Peas , Guns N' Roses , Florence and

468-575: The Paris Masters will qualify for the ATP Finals . At the beginning of the 2009 season, all accumulated ranking points were doubled to bring them in line with the new tournament ranking system. [ vedit   · edit source ] [ vedit   · edit source ] As of January 1, 2020, Andrea Gaudenzi is the Chairman of ATP and Massimo Calvelli is

504-532: The Tennis Masters Series tournaments became the new Masters 1000 level and ATP International Series Gold and ATP International Series events became ATP 500 level and 250 level events respectively. The Masters 1000 tournaments are Indian Wells , Miami , Monte Carlo , Madrid , Rome , Toronto/Montreal , Cincinnati , Shanghai and Paris . The end-of-year event, the ATP Finals , moved from Shanghai to London. Hamburg has been displaced by

540-537: The ATP published the calendar for the inaugural 1990 season. By 1991, the men had their first television package to broadcast 19 tournaments. Coming online with their first website in 1995, this was followed by a multi-year agreement with Mercedes-Benz. Lawsuits in 2008, around virtually the same issues, resulted in a restructured tour. In 2009, ATP introduced a new tour structure called ATP World Tour consisting of ATP World Tour Masters 1000, ATP World Tour 500, and ATP World Tour 250 tier tournaments. Broadly speaking,

576-421: The ATP threatened a boycott, stating that if Pilić was not allowed to compete, none should. After last-ditch attempts at a compromise failed, the ATP voted in favor of a boycott and as a result, 81 of the top players, including reigning champion Stan Smith and 13 of the 16 men's seeds, did not compete at the 1973 Wimbledon Championships . Three ATP players, Ilie Năstase , Roger Taylor and Ray Keldie , defied

612-480: The ATP's decision would send the "completely wrong message to both Putin and the people of Ukraine". CEO Hamilton Jordan is credited with the "Parking Lot Press Conference" on 26 August 1988 during which the ATP announced their withdrawal from the MIPTC (then called the MTC) and the creation of their own tour from 1990 onwards. This re-organisation also ended a lawsuit with Volvo and Donald Dell . On 19 January 1989

648-709: The ATP, and as a concession it was decided that Monte Carlo would remain a Masters 1000 level event, with more prize money and 1000 ranking points, but it would no longer be a compulsory tournament for top-ranked players. Monte Carlo later dropped its suit. Hamburg was "reserved" to become a 500 level event in the summer. Hamburg did not accept this concession, but later lost its suit. The 500 level tournaments are Rotterdam , Dubai , Rio , Acapulco , Barcelona , Aegon Championships (Queens Club, London), Halle (Gerry Weber Open), Hamburg , Washington , Beijing , Tokyo , Basel and Vienna . The ATP & ITF have declared that Davis Cup World Group and World Group Playoffs award

684-769: The Board of Directors, which has the power to accept or reject the council's suggestions. As of 2024, the Council consists of a President ( Matthew Ebden ), a Vice President ( Andrey Rublev ), three players who are ranked within the top 50 in singles ( Grigor Dimitrov , Alexander Zverev and Mackenzie McDonald ), two players who are ranked between 51 and 100 in singles ( Pedro Martínez and Dušan Lajović ), two top 100 players in doubles ( Wesley Koolhof and Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela ), one at-large member ( Pedro Cachin ), one alumni member ( Nicolás Pereira ), and one coach (Federico Ricci). The ATP Tournament Advisory Council consists of

720-561: The Machine , George Michael , Christina Aguilera , Delta Goodrem , Gwen Stefani , Justin Bieber , Coldplay , Taylor Swift , Linkin Park , Rihanna , Roger Waters and Top Gear Live. As a sports venue, the Dome was the home of the Hopman Cup and occasionally hosted Perth Wildcats ' National Basketball League games. At one time the dome was also considered as a possible home venue for

756-508: The boycott and were fined by the ATP's disciplinary committee. But the tour was still run by the tournament directors and the ITF. The limited player representation and influence within the Men's International Professional Tennis Council (MIPTC) as well as dissatisfaction with the way the sport was managed and marketed culminated in a player mutiny in 1988 led by active tennis pros, including then world number one ranked Mats Wilander which changed

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792-505: The calculation of ATP or WTA rankings. Eight nations are selected annually to compete in the Hopman Cup. The "last" team may be decided by play-offs between several nations before competition begins. For the 2007 Hopman Cup however, this did not occur, due to the Asian Qualifying Tournament creating the eighth team. Each team consists of one male player and one female player. Each match-up between two teams at

828-815: The chief executive officer. Mark Young is the Vice Chairman, David Massey is the Executive Vice President for the European region and Alison Lee for the International group. The ATP Board of Directors includes the chairman, along with three tournament representatives and three player representatives. The player representatives are elected by the ATP Player Council. The current board members are: The twelve-member ATP Player Advisory Council delivers advisory decisions to

864-566: The entire structure of the tour. In reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) moved the 2022 St. Petersburg Open from Saint Petersburg to Kazakhstan . In May 2022, the ATP stripped the Wimbledon tournament of its world ranking points over the tournament's decision to decline entries from Russian and Belarusian players . The UK Culture Secretary , Nadine Dorries , commented that

900-434: The event consists of: 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. The seedings ensure that each group has approximately similar strength. The top team in each group then meet in a final to decide the champions. If a player is injured then a player of a lower ranking of that nation may be

936-481: The exception of the Olympics and Hopman Cup. The four-week ITF Satellite tournaments were discontinued in 2007. Players and doubles teams with the most ranking points (collected during the calendar year) play in the season-ending ATP Finals , which, from 2000 to 2008, was run jointly with the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The details of the professional tennis tour are: ATP publishes weekly rankings of professional players: ATP rankings (commonly known as

972-614: The exception of those for the ATP Finals , whose points are dropped following the last ATP event of the year. The player with the most points by the season's end is the world No. 1 of the year. The ATP rankings Race to Turin is a calendar-year indicator of what the PIF ATP Rankings will be on the Monday after the end of the regular season. Players finishing in the top eight of the Emirates ATP Rankings following

1008-491: The first player to win the tournament three times. He and Belinda Bencic became the first pairing to successfully defend the title, having won it the previous year. The Hopman Cup was not held in 2020 (it was replaced in the tennis calendar until 2022 by the now defunct ATP Cup). ITF president David Haggerty later announced the tournament would return in 2021. After the tournament was unable to be held in 2021, he announced it would return in 2022 instead. In December 2021, it

1044-516: The new clay court event at Madrid, which is a new combined men's and women's tournament. In 2011, Rome and Cincinnati also became combined tournaments. Severe sanctions are placed on top players skipping the Masters 1000 series events, unless medical proof is presented. Plans to eliminate Monte Carlo and Hamburg as Masters Series events led to controversy and protests from players as well as organisers. Hamburg and Monte Carlo filed lawsuits against

1080-417: The substitute. The winning team receives a silver cup perpetual trophy and through 2013 the winning team members were presented with distinctive individual trophies in the shape of a tennis ball. The Hopman Cup was created in 1989. The championship is named in honour of Harry Hopman (1906–1985), an Australian tennis player and coach who guided the country to 15 Davis Cup titles between 1938 and 1969. From

1116-517: The time the Hopman Cup was founded in 1989, it was attended each year by Hopman's widow, his second wife Lucy, who travelled to the tournament from her home in the United States until she died in 2018. The 2005/06 Hopman Cup was the first elite-level tennis tournament in which the system was introduced allowing players to challenge point-ending line calls similar to that in clay court tournaments. The challenged calls are immediately reviewed on

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1152-452: The tournament in instances where two teams from the same country entered the tournament, while team with no index includes results of higher placed team only. Note 2: Considering there is an extremely high frequency of retirements due to various reasons w.o. wins/defeats are counted in all statistics. Note 3: "Y Ent" statistic is not complete. Information about Asian Hopman Cup, a qualifying tournament that ran from 2006 until 2009 and granted

1188-421: The winners entry into the Hopman Cup the following year, is missing. Association of Tennis Professionals Launched in 1972 by Jack Kramer , Donald Dell , and Cliff Drysdale , it was first managed by Jack Kramer , as executive director, and Cliff Drysdale , as president. Jim McManus was a founding member. Kramer created the professional players' rankings system , which started the following year and

1224-457: The ‘world rankings’), a 52-week rolling ranking, and the ATP Race to Turin , a year to date ranking. All ATP players also have a Universal Tennis Rating , based on head-to-head results. The ATP rankings is used for determining qualification for entry and seeding in all tournaments for both singles and doubles. Within the ATP rankings period which is the past year, points are accumulated with

1260-429: Was Paul Kilderry after the resignation of Steve Ayles. Previously, the former Australian tennis player Paul McNamee , who played a key role in the founding of the championships, was the tournament director. In 2019 for the 31st edition of the tournament, a record crowd of 14,064 witnessed the 2019 Hopman Cup match between United States and Switzerland . Roger Federer and Belinda Bencic won, with Federer becoming

1296-495: Was announced that the tournament would return, and will be played in Nice in 2023. The 2023 and 2024 editions would contract to six teams before expanding back to the original eight-team format in 2025. In March 2024, it was decided that the Hopman Cup would not be held that year due to the 2024 Summer Olympics and would return in 2025. The Hopman Cup was originally broadcast by the Seven Network until 1994, then by

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