2016 Tennis Hopman Cup Is Live Exclusively On StarTimes TV

Tennis Lovers are in for a treat as StarTimes has announced that it will broadcast all 39 matches of the Hopman Cup, live from Perth from Sunday 3rd January to Saturday 9th January 2016.StarTimes will also broadcast the World Tennis Cup running on the 12th, 13th, and 14th of January as well as Fast Tennis 4 on 11th January on the Pay TV channel StarTimes which has bought the all platform rights of 2016 in Sub-Saharan African and will broadcast the matches exclusively in the Anglo and Linguaphone countries.

The Hopman Cup – founded in 1989 and named in honour of Harry Hopman is the official mixed gender team competition of the International Tennis Federation consists of the some of the World’s eleven top 40 players and three top ten players as they battle it out to become the 28th Hopman Champions. Serena Williams will be making her fourth appearance at the Hopman Cup in a bid to become the first 3-time champion joining World Number 2 Andy Murray, French superstar Gael Monfils ad Australian Gold’s Lleyton Hewitt and Casey Dellacqua as some of the biggest names in tennis around the globe.

2016’s Hopman Cup will see two Australian teams compete; Australia Gold and Australian Green with the other participating teams coming from the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ukrain and the USA.

The fixtures are:

Fast 4 Tennis is a Fast, Fun and Friendly competition designed to fit into viewers busy lifestyles with innovative rules to ensure that matches are competitive, exciting and can be played within short periods of time, with the fundamentals of the game remaining the same. Australian great Lleyton Hewitt and 20 year old rising star Nick Kyrgios will play a series of double and singles against 14 time Grand Slam Winner Rafael Nadal and Gael Monfil. Tennis fans are in for an evening of entertainment and surprises on 11 January 2016, live from Sydney.     

World Tennis Cup will be hosted in Adelaide and will plays host to hand-picked, past and present world class stars during three evenings of excellent tennis filled with competitive tension and humour when legends Mats Wilander, Goran Ivanisevic, Marion Bartoli, Aranta Saanchez-Vicario and Iva Majoli join current stars Thanasi Kokkinaki and Mark Philippoussis in a series of singles and doubles matches.  The tournament also includes a Women’s legends 6-game set.

The fixtures for the Fast4 Tennis and World Tennis Cup are:

“Bringing such high quality tennis to our subscribers is evidence of our commitment to meet our subscribers’ diverse viewing requirements. StarTimes will remain focused on ensuring our valued clients get to enjoy some of the best sporting events from across the world,” said Michael Dearham, Managing Director of Media Department and VP-StarTimes Group.