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Asian Hopman Cup in Astana
27/10/2009

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PERTH. The eighth and final team for the Hyundai Hopman Cup will be determined at the fourth instalment of the Asian Hopman Cup to be held at the National Tennis Centre Astana, Kazakhstan from 11 - 14 November, 2009. The winning team automatically qualifies for the ITF’s International Mixed Teams Championship held annually in Perth, Western Australia in January.

Teams from Kazakhstan, China, Korea, India and Thailand will be vying to beat two time defending Champions - Chinese Taipei (Yen-Hsun Lu and Su-Wei Hsieh) and take their place in the Hyundai Hopman Cup field.

The full list of participating Nations and players:

KAZAKHSTAN: YAROSLAVA SHVEDOVA and ANDREY GOLUBEV

THAILAND: TAMARINE TANASUGARN and DANAI UDOMCHOKE

CHINESE TAIPEI: SU-WEI HSIEH and YEN-HSUN LU

INDIA: POOJASHREE VENKATESHA and VISHNU VARDHAN

KOREA: KUN-HEE KIM and YONG-KYU LIM

CHINA: HU YUEYUE and LI MING

The player’s list of this year is stronger than last year. Kazakhstan with Golubev ranked 61 on the ATP Tour and Shvedova 50 on the WTA Tour look like the team most likely to upset the Chinese Taipei three peat. Thailand will also pose a strong threat with veterans Udomchoke (139) and Tanasugarn (111).

India’s Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna won the Inaugural Asian Hopman Cup.

The Asian Hopman Cup is a six Nation round-robin tournament consisting of 2 groups of 3 Nations with the winning team of each group playing the Final. All singles matches will be the best of three tie-break sets, with the exception of the mixed doubles, which will use the Match Tie-Break (the first team to reach 10 points) if the match is tied at 1 set all.

The Tie format is

Women’s Singles
Men’s Singles
Mixed Doubles

Prize Money:
Winner - US$20,000
Runner Up - US$12,000
2nd in Group - US$10,000
3rd in Group - US$9,000

All matches will be broadcasted by main national TV channels and there will also be online Internet translation offered by “Sportsman Media Group GmbH”.

[goctorsurger]

OK, even I have never heard of Poojashree Venkatesha...Vardhan plays on the futures and has beaten Yuki a couple of times, I think.

And Hu is YueYue?

[dXI9XFOA]

Venkatesha has been tearing up the $10,000 tournaments in India in the last half of the year and is somewhere in the 300's, I think.

[goctorsurger]

Venkatesha has been tearing up the $10,000 tournaments in India in the last half of the year and is somewhere in the 300's, I think.

Thanks! I now do remember reading an article on her a few months ago.

[Rqvtwlfk]

Go Tammy and Danai !!!

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Wednesday Results:

Group A - Kazakhstan d China 3-0
Shvedova d Hu 60 61
Golubev d Li 62 60
Golubev/Shvedova d Li/Hu 61 62

Group B - Thailand d Korea 2-1
Tanasugarn d Kim 62 62
Lim d Udomchoke 64 63
Udomchoke/Tanasugarn d Lim/Kim 64 63


Thursday Results

Group A - China d India 2-1
Hu d Venkatesha 64 61
Vardhan d Li 63 60
Li/Hu d Vardhan/Venkatesha 61 62

Group B - Chinese Taipei d Korea 2-1
Hsieh d Kim 63 62
Lim d Lu 40 ret
Lu/Hsieh d Lim/Kim 67(6) 76(4) 12-10

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Friday Results

Group A - Kazakhstan d India 2-1
Shvedova d Venkatesha 60 62
Golubev d Vardhan 75 76(4)
Vardhan/Venkatesha d Golubev/Shvedova 63 63

Group B - Chinese Taipei d Thailand 2-1
Tanasugarn d Hsieh 64 64
Lu d Udomchoke 46 25 ret
Lu/Hsieh d Udomchoke/Tanasugarn 75 63

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Group Standings - after day 3

Group A
...............Matches
Kazakhstan 2-0
China 1-1
India 0-2

Group B
Chinese Taipei 2-0
Thailand 1-1
Korea 0-2

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Final Day (Saturday) 14 November 2009 Results

KAZAKHSTAN def CHINESE TAIPEI 2-1

Yaroslava SHVEDOVA def. Su-Wei HSIEH 61 61
Andrey GOLUBEV def. Yen-Hsun LU 63 46 61
Yen-Hsun LU/Su-Wei HSIEH def. Andrey GOLUBEV/Yaroslava SHVEDOVA 75 26 10-8

[CicyHannyCeli]

See the bought Russians stopped the recent domination of Chinese Taipei

[SannyGlow]

I had a feeling Kazakhstan would run through this field.