TAG: Hopman Cup
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Did Hingis Really Teach Federer How To Win?
Comments off · Posted by Scoop Malinowski in Articles, Scoop
Martina Hingis once half-joked that she taught Roger Federer how to win, as their first time collaboration produced a victory at 2001 Hopman Cup for Switzerland. Before that win, the 19 year old Federer still had not won anything on the ATP World Tour, no titles and no impact at Grand Slams. Hingis had won […] Continue to read full article...
Hopman Cup · Martina Hingis · Roger Federer · Switzerland · Wimbledon
The Harry Hopman Cup was a successful international eight-nation invitational combined exhibition event staged in Western Australia from 1989-2019. But it was replaced on the pro tennis calendar in 2019 by ATP Cup, which was subsequently cancelled in August 2022 and replaced by a new January mixed gender team event called United Cup which will […] Continue to read full article...
Belinda Bencic · France · Hopman Cup · Nice · Roger Federer
Serious Federer enthusiast Fiona (@Federering on Twitter) is in Perth for Hopman Cup and obtained a scoop of sorts about the inevitable topic of his eventual retirement from tennis.
Fiona: “Roger, you have to never retire please.” Continue to read full article...
By Scoop Malinowski
This is is, the ultimate showdown of the two greatest tennis players of all time in a mixed doubles match USA vs Switzerland. Tiafoe with Serena, Bencic with Federer.
Serena is all business at the coin toss, her game face is on. Federer looks equally serious. There are no warm smiles to each other to acknowledge the incredible symmetry of what is about to happen. The two best players male and female to lock horns in a mixed match. Continue to read full article...
