Nell Hall Hopman Nell Hall Hopman Eleanor "Nell" Mary Hall Hopman ("née" Hall; 9 March 1909 – 10 January 1968) was one of the female tennis players that dominated Australian tennis from 1930 through the early 1960s. She was the first wife of Harry Hopman, the coach and captain of 22 Australian Davis Cup teams. Hopman was born on 9 March 1909 at Coogee, Sydney and was the only daughter and second of three children of Charles Ernest Hall, clerk, and Mabel Gertrude, née Tipper. She was educated at Claremont College, Randwick and as a student she excelled at tennis and music. She
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