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
Switzerland at the Hopman Cup Switzerland at the Hopman Cup Switzerland is a nation that has competed at the Hopman Cup tournament on eleven occasions, the first being at the third annual staging in 1991. They won the tournament in 1992, 2001 and 2018, and were also runners-up in 1996. This is a list of players who have played for Switzerland in the Hopman Cup. In the 1996 final versus Croatia, the Swiss team was forced to retire from the mixed doubles with the score at 5–5 in the final set, thus handing the championship to Croatia. This was due to a hand injury sustained