PERTH, Australia (AP) — Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and Tomas Berdych had straight-set victories over their French opponents Saturday to give the Czech Republic its second Hopman Cup title.
Kvitova won the last three games of the first set and went on to beat Marion Bartoli 7-5, 6-1, while Berdych was perfect in a first-set tiebreaker and beat Richard Gasquet 7-6 (0), 6-4.
The Czechs won the eight-country mixed-teams title for the first time in 1994 when Jana Novotna and Petr Korda beat Germany in the final.
France has never won the Hopman Cup, a runner-up finish to Slovakia in 1998 its best showing. France has played 18 times in the 24-year history of the tournament.
