Nell Hall Hopman Lesley Turner Bowrey, and Mary Carter Reitano. Although the tour was a financial success, Hopman was accused of overworking and underfeeding her players and forcing them to stay in inadequate hotels. As a result, Court refused to participate in the 1962 overseas tour led by Hopman. Hopman was employed by the United States Lawn Tennis Association and the Southern California Tennis Association from 1952 through 1954 to be the travelling companion and chaperon of Connolly. In 1962, she persuaded the International Tennis Federation to begin sponsoring the Federation Cup, now known as the Fed Cup, an international team event for
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