Australia must sweep Italy to remain alive in Hopman Cup Tomic and Stosur will look to make up for their day one loss to Canada with a win over Italy. AUSTRALIA needs a clean sweep of its Hopman Cup tie with Italy in Perth on Tuesday to keep its title hopes alive in the mixed team tournament. The hosts had a poor start to their campaign on Saturday, but need to regroup to remain in touch with the impressive Polish team of Agnieszka Radwanska and Grzegorz Panfil. Sam Stosur will be on court on Tuesday morning against Italy's world No.31 Flavia Pennetta. But Stosur, ranked 18, lost to the world's 31st ranked Canadian Eugenie Bouchard in three sets on Saturday. And she has yet to taste victory against Pennetta, in four attempts, the last time they met being the 2011 Fed Cup clash in Hobart. Bernard Tomic will then be on court against Andreas Seppi (ranked 25), who pulled out of his first-round match against Panfil on Saturday morning because of illness. Australia's top ranked male and number 51 in the world, was humbled in the second set of his loss to Canadian Milos Raonic in their opening round clash. Tomic pushed the world number 11 to a tie breaker in the first set, which he lost 6-8, but was quickly blown away 1-6 in the second. The 21-year-old Australian has a 2-0 record over the Italian. Australia can't make the final if it loses to Italy. If Stosur and Tomic can get the job done, they will then need to beat Poland on Thursday to have any chance of making the final, with other results likely to determine the Group A winner from the round-robin ties. Australia has won the Hopman Cup only once in 25 years, in 1999 when Mark Philippoussis and Jelena Dokic defeated the Swedish team of Jonas Bjorkman and Asa Carlsson.