Harry Hopman Harry Hopman Henry Christian "Harry" Hopman CBE (12 August 1906 – 27 December 1985) was a world-acclaimed Australian tennis player and coach. Hopman was born in Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales, before his family moved to Parramatta, a city adjoining Sydney and now effectively a suburb of the metropolis. Hopman was a student at Rosehill Public Primary (elementary) school, where his father was headmaster, and later at Parramatta High School, where he played tennis and cricket. Harry Hopman was born on 12 August 1906 in Glebe, Sydney as the third child of John Henry Hopman, schoolteacher, and Jennie Siberteen, née
Soviet Union at the Hopman Cup Soviet Union at the Hopman Cup The Soviet Union is a nation that competed at two consecutive Hopman Cup tournaments and first competed in the 2nd Hopman Cup in 1990. The Soviet Union never won a tie and as such never passed the quarterfinal stage of the tournament. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, four of the fifteen independent states formed from the former Soviet Union have competed in the Hopman Cup. These are: Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Additionally, the Commonwealth of Independent States also entered a team into the 1992 event. This