Believe it or not the 2014 season is upon us.
It all starts with the Hopman Cup exhibition tournament on Saturday Dec 28 in Perth Australia. It will be shown live on SNET ONE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hopman_Cup
8 countries divided into 2 groups, each team has a male and female player.
Each series is best of 3, women's match, men's match and mixed doubles match.
The top team of each group meet in the final.
Group A
Poland - Agnieszka Radwańska & Grzegorz Panfil
Canada - Eugenie Bouchard & Milos Raonic
Italy - Flavia Pennetta & Andreas Seppi
Australia - Samantha Stosur & Bernard Tomic
Canada-Australia Dec 28 2:30am
Canada-Poland Dec 29 2:30am
Canada-Italy Jan 1 7:00pm
Group B
USA - Sloane Stephens & John Isner
France - Alize Corner & Jo-Wilfred Tsonga
Czech Rep - Petra Kvitova & Radek Stepanek
Spain - A-M Garrigues & Tommy Robredo
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Going into the season here are the ranking for top 5 Canadian men and women.
Men:
11 Milos Raonic
32 Vasek Pospisil
122 Frank Dancevic
141 Peter Polansky
149 Jesse Levine
Women:
32 Eugenie Bouchard
116 Sharon Fichman
205 Stephanie Dubois
247 Gabriella Dabrowski
285 Aleksandra Wozniak