Japan at the Hopman Cup

Japan
First year1989
Years played5
Best finishRound One (1989, 1992, 1993)
Most total winsKimiko Date (2–2)
Ai Sugiyama (2–3)
Takao Suzuki (2–2)
Most singles winsKimiko Date (2–0)
Most doubles winsAi Sugiyama (1–1)
Takao Suzuki (1–1)
Best doubles teamAi Sugiyama & Takao Suzuki (1–1)
Most years playedKimiko Date (2)
Ai Sugiyama (2)
Takao Suzuki (2)
Yasufumi Yamamoto (2)

Japan is a nation that has competed at the Hopman Cup tournament on five occasions, the first being at the inaugural annual staging in 1989. Before the introduction of the round robin competition format in 1996, Japan never passed the first round and since its introduction, the nation has never passed the qualification stage of the tournament.[1]

Japan also participated in the first two stagings of the now defunct Asian Hopman Cup, a qualifying tournament which ran from 2006 until 2009 and granted the winners entry into the Hopman Cup the following year. In both 2006 and 2007, Japan failed to progress past the round robin stage of the event, thus failing to gain entry into the main tournament in Australia.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Nations Records". www.hopmancup.com. Archived from the original on 2011-09-05. Retrieved 26 Oct 2011.
  2. ^ "Taiwanese pair win place in Asian Hopman Cup final". www.taipeitimes.com. 26 Nov 2006. Retrieved 27 Oct 2011.
  3. ^ "ASIAN HOPMAN CUP, 8-11 November 2007" (PDF). www.asiantennis.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2012. Retrieved 27 Oct 2011.