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Ten drops Hopman Cup tennis coverage

TenOne of the staple programming of Channel Ten’s summer line up the Hopman Cup is to be dropped after the network and tennis organisers failed to agree over scheduling.

In a statement the Ten Network said it had: “decided to pass on broadcasting the 2013-14 Hopman Cup.”

“The network was unable to reach agreement with Hopman Cup Pty Ltd on appropriate scheduling of the event. The network wishes the event well in the future.”

With Ten securing the rights to the Big Bash cricket league it is thought that the two events clashed and that a push by the Ten Network to move the Hopman Cup to one of Ten’s secondary digital channels Eleven and One was not welcomed by the event’s organisers.

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