Harry Hopman how this proved once again that amateurs were better than the pros." The Hopman Cup is named in his honour. His widow, Lucy Hopman, travels to Perth, Western Australia in January each year for the tournament. Hopman was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island in 1978. Tennis great Jack Kramer, who was also a successful promoter of the professional tour, writes in his 1979 autobiography that Hopman "always knew exactly what was going on with all his amateurs. He had no children, no hobbies, and tennis was everything to him. Hopman always said he
India at the Hopman Cup India at the Hopman Cup India is a nation that has competed at the Hopman Cup tournament on two occasions. The nation's first appearance came in 2007, courtesy of a wild card earned by winning the inaugural Asian Hopman Cup (a now defunct qualification tournament for Asian nations which ran from 2006 until 2009). This remains their best performance to date. India also participated in the Asian Hopman Cup on two other occasions. In the 2008 and 2009 events, they failed to progress past the round robin stages of the event. This is a list of players who have played