Personal Life
Hopman was first married to Nell Hall, with whom he won four mixed doubles finals. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1969 and became a highly successful professional coach at Port Washington Tennis Academy, for future champions such as Vitas Gerulaitis and later John McEnroe. Hopman later opened the Hopman Tennis Academy, at Largo, Florida, with his second wife, Lucy.
According to at least one tennis historian, Hopman was a heavy gambler who "once had to sell the land he had purchased for his dream home."
He died of a heart attack.
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