View Poll Results: Hopman Cup?
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Exhibition
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Tournament (Worth counting as a title win)
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Nov 17th, 2012, 03:36 PM
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Your stance on Hopman Cup?
Exhibition or Tournament?
It is an ITF ran event like Olympics, Grand Slams, and Fed Cup (all of which are events I count as tournaments), but Hopman Cup just comes across as an exhibition. WTA acknowledges Fed Cup and the Olympics, but not Hopman Cup. This site even counts it as an exhibition. But some fans like to think of it as a tournament worth counting as a title. Opinions please.
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Nov 17th, 2012, 04:27 PM
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Venus Fan
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Re: Your stance on Hopman Cup?
A really serious exhibition
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Nov 17th, 2012, 04:32 PM
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Re: Your stance on Hopman Cup?
Exhibition
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Nov 17th, 2012, 04:39 PM
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Everybody's a star!!!
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Re: Your stance on Hopman Cup?
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Originally Posted by dynamoRockstarr
A really serious exhibition
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That's a good way to describe it, yeah.
I do take results from this event more seriously than I would any other exhibition event. I do believe the players go here to win, at least the majority of them. Personally I think the results here should be listed by the WTA but having said all that, in terms of importance I'd still rate these results pretty low in comparison to Fed Cup or any WTA results. It's still a fun event though and I do follow it. And it is a cool title to win as well.
But for things like h2hs I suppose I would put it on the level of a 75K or higher ITF event. So something that I would like listed but still wouldn't give as much value to as a WTA or Fed Cup win.
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Nov 17th, 2012, 07:05 PM
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Re: Your stance on Hopman Cup?
a smileful joke.
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Nov 17th, 2012, 07:59 PM
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Re: Your stance on Hopman Cup?
An amuse bouche to a tasty first course.
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Nov 17th, 2012, 08:52 PM
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Re: Your stance on Hopman Cup?
it should be abolished.
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Nov 17th, 2012, 08:58 PM
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Re: Your stance on Hopman Cup?
Any tournament that awards points and/or decent money for losing = exhibition.
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Nov 17th, 2012, 09:01 PM
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Re: Your stance on Hopman Cup?
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Originally Posted by coolfish1103
Any tournament that awards points and/or decent money for losing = exhibition.
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Well than Istanbul masters was definitely an exhibition tournament ...
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Nov 17th, 2012, 09:03 PM
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Re: Your stance on Hopman Cup?
It's an ITF team event so it shouldn't count as a title but the singles matches should count on the players' records.
It's a great tournament though and the WTA should leave it alone. And as throphies go, those diamond tennis balls are second only to Wimbledon's Venus Rosewater Dish for style.
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Nov 17th, 2012, 09:04 PM
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Re: Your stance on Hopman Cup?
Tournament!! 
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Nov 17th, 2012, 09:05 PM
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Re: Your stance on Hopman Cup?
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Originally Posted by bobito
It's an ITF team event so it shouldn't count as a title but the singles matches should count on the players' records.
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Succinctly put. Absolutely spot on.
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Nov 17th, 2012, 09:06 PM
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Re: Your stance on Hopman Cup?
Dont the results count towards the head to heads, I heard somewhere. If it is then I should a more serious exhibition.
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Nov 17th, 2012, 09:17 PM
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Re: Your stance on Hopman Cup?
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Originally Posted by aloeball
Dont the results count towards the head to heads, I heard somewhere. If it is then I should a more serious exhibition.
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It depends what H2H you look at. Look at the WTA H2Hs and you won't see Hopman Cup H2Hs there. But check the ITF H2Hs and they are very much there. There are other H2H collections all over the internet as well, some include the Hopman Cup some don't. Personally I think it's best to have it there and then the individual who is looking up the H2H can make up their own mind on the relevance of the particular match in question.
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Nov 17th, 2012, 09:25 PM
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Re: Your stance on Hopman Cup?
WTA and ATP should both back it heavily. It's an interesting and different format and a top way to start the year. It should be bigger.
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