\u201cTennis is very much in the media spotlight and I thought I should take this opportunity to correct some of the inaccuracies in recent stories about the future of the Hopman Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is disappointing that some wish to wrongly portray Tennis Australia\u2019s interest as an attempt to damage the event or even move it away from Perth.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst of all, the ITF owns the Hopman Cup. The ITF has decided to review the management rights and indeed, the ITF will make the decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cTennis Australia has expressed interest in the management rights as we have a view that the Hopman Cup is an integral part of the lead up to the Australian Open and an important component in increasing participation in tennis.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will not move the Hopman Cup from Perth.\u00a0 It is well supported by the West Australian public and the West Australian Government and will be further enhanced by next year\u2019s move to a new venue.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ITF has said publicly the time is right to review the management rights. Tennis Australia believes the time is right to fully integrate the event into the sport of tennis and ensure the maximum value for the sport and Western Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no conflict of interest in Tennis Australia managing the event.<\/p>\n
\u201cTennis Australia already manages major events at the same time in Sydney and Hobart in the week leading up to the Australian Open.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact Tennis Australia\u2019s strategy is to have major events in each of the major cities in Australia because we know that properly run and fully integrated with the sport at all levels they are a great means to help grow participation in tennis.<\/p>\n
\u201cGrowing participation in tennis throughout Australia is what we are about as the benefits for the community are substantial. The actual events also benefit from growing participation because we know from experience that a large section of people who attend these terrific events are tennis players themselves. So it is a pretty straightforward equation. The event generates interest, exposure and indeed participation and then the increased participation helps grow the event and soon and so on.<\/p>\n
\u201cShould Tennis Australia be successful with our submission to obtain the management rights of the Hopman Cup we will work with the ITF, Tennis West and the West Australian Government to ensure the long term viability and growth of the Hopman Cup in Perth while leveraging the event to help also further the growth of tennis in the west \u2013just as we do for our other events in the AO Series.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a terrific opportunity for tennis. Our interest is in growing the game and the profile of our great sport. Suggestions that Tennis Australia would harm the Hopman Cup or move it away from Perth could not be further from the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n For further media information please contact: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Prue Ryan, Tennis Australia, Tel: 0419 309 369 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cTennis is very much in the media spotlight and I thought I should take this opportunity to correct some of the inaccuracies in recent stories about the future of the Hopman Cup. \u201cIt is disappointing that some wish to wrongly portray Tennis Australia\u2019s interest as an attempt to damage the event or even move it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":3610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}