Venus Williams, Taylor Dent to play for U.S. at Hopman Cup

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Venus Williams, Taylor Dent to play for U.S. at Hopman Cup

PERTH, Australia (AP) -- Venus Williams and Taylor Dent will represent the United States at this year's Hopman Cup team tennis tournament.

The Americans will play Germany's Nicolas Kiefer and Martina Muller on Dec. 30.

Organizers said Thursday that South Korea was forced out of the tournament after Cho Yoon-jeong was injured in a women's practice match.

Australia and Russia will join Germany and the United States in Group A. Croatia, Czech Republic, Spain and the winner of the Asian Hopman Cup, being decided this week in Hyderabad, India, will play in Group B.

The tournament ends Jan. 5 and is one of a series of warmup tournaments ahead of the Australian Open, which begins Jan. 15 in Melbourne.

Competing Countries

United States - Venus Williams and Taylor Dent
Australia - Alicia Molik and Mark Philippoussis
Croatia - Sanja Ancic and Mario Ancic
Czech Repbulic - Lucie Safarova and Tomas Berdych
Korea Republic - Yoon Jeong Cho and Hyung-Taik Lee
Russia - Nadia Petrova and Dmitry Tursunov
Spain - Anabel Medina Garrigues and Tommy Robredo
Winner of Asian Hopman Cup

Group A
Russia
United States
Australia
Korea Republic

Group B
Spain
Czech Repbulic
Croatia
Winner of Asian Hopman Cup

J-man

The brother and sister act for Croatia Laughing

And GF and BF act for the Czech Rep.

But serisouly we are doomed

leftys_rock

The Russians have so many selections. Would have thought they would have chosen different people than Petrova and Tursunov.

J-man

I don't think Petrova is a bad choice. She has some good doubles experince. Now Dmitry on the hand could have been changed. But he does have a big game which could help out Petrova

x.doublea

Well, the player have to agree to play. I honestly doubt Safin would play without pay....