Nominations announced for 2014 BNP Paribas World Team Cup wheelchair tennis event
The ITF has announced the nominations for the 2014 BNP Paribas World Team Cup wheelchair tennis event at the Nieuwe Sloot Tennis Centre in Alphen, Netherlands from 26 May until 1 June. Defending their 2013 titles are France men’s team, Netherlands women’s team, USA quad team and Great Britain junior team.
A total of 52 teams from 31 countries are contesting five events: men’s World Group (12 nations), men’s World Group II (12 nations), women’s World Group (12 nations), quad event (8 teams) and junior event (8 teams). Regional qualifying events were held in Kenya, Puerto Rico, Sri Lanka and Turkey to determine four men’s and four women’s teams to join the qualifiers and wild cards.
The World Team Cup is the ITF’s flagship wheelchair tennis event, often referred to as the Davis Cup and Fed Cup of wheelchair tennis. Netherlands hosts the 30th World Team Cup this year after the initial event took place in California in 1985 involving six men’s teams. The women’s competition began the following year, with quad and junior events introduced in 1998 and 2000 respectively. The ITF introduced regional qualifying for the men’s and women’s events in 2012.
For the latest news from the event, visit www.itftennis.com/wheelchair
For the 2014 BNP Paribas World Team Cup website, visit: www.worldteamcup2014.com/
BNP PARIBAS WORLD TEAM CUP
ALPHEN, NETHERLANDS
ALPHEN, NETHERLANDS
MEN’S WORLD GROUP
France (seeded 1)
Stephane Houdet
Nicolas Peifer
Frederic Cattaneo
David Dalmasso
Netherlands (2)
Maikel Scheffers
Tom Egberink
Ronald Vink
Rody de Bie
Japan (3)
Takuya Miki
Takashi Sanada
Satoshi Saida
Yoshinobu Fujimoto
Great Britain (4)
Gordon Reid
Marc McCarroll
Dave Phillipson
Ed Holt
Australia (5)
Adam Kellerman
Benjamin Weekes
Keegan Oh Chee
Poland (6)
Tadeusz Kruszelnicki
Kamil Fabisiak
Piotr Jaroszewski
Albin Batycki
Austria (7)
Martin Legner
Josef Riegler
Nico Langmann
Thomas Mossier
Argentina (8)
Gustavo Fernandez
Ezequiel Casco
Oscar Diaz
Korea, Rep. (9)
Sung-Bong Han
Sang-Ho Oh
Ha-Gel Lee
Thailand (10)
Suthi Khlongrua
Sumrerng Kruamai
Suwitchai Merngprom
USA (11)
Steve Welch
Anthony Anderson
Jon Rydberg
Sweden (12)
Stefan Olsson
Peter Vikström
Greger Källsholm
WOMEN’S WORLD GROUP
Netherlands (1)
Aniek van Koot
Marjolein Buis
Sharon Walraven
Germany (2)
Sabine Ellerbrock
Katharina Krüger
Bianca Osterer
Japan (3)
Yui Kamiji
Kanako Domori
Miho Nijo
Great Britain (4)
Jordanne Whiley
Lucy Shuker
Louise Hunt
Chile (5)
Francisca Mardones
Macarena Cabrillana
Maria Paz Diaz Obregon
Korea, Rep. (6)
Ju-Yeon Park
Myung-Hee Hwang
Hong Young-Suk
Russia (7, Qualifier)
Ludmila Bubnova
Polina Shakirova
Dinara Sabitova
Thailand (8)
Sakhorn Khanthasit
Ratana Techamaneewat
Chusri Inthanin
USA (9)
Emmy Kaiser
Shelby Baron
Kaitlyn Verfuerth
Colombia (10, Qualifier)
Angelica Bernal
Johana Martinez Vega
Chinese Taipei (11, Qualifier)
Yi-Shan Wu
Chia-Yi Lu
Kenya (12, Qualifier)
Rahel Akoth
Phoebe Masika
Jane Ndenga
QUAD EVENT
USA (1)
David Wagner
Greg Hasterok
Nick Taylor
Great Britain (2, Wild Card)
Andy Lapthorne
Jamie Burdekin
Antony Cotterill
Italy (3)
Antonio Raffaele
Marco Innocenti
Alfredo di Cosmo
Canada (4, Wild Card)
Sarah Hunter
Gary Luker
Adrian Dieleman
Japan (5)
Mitsuteru Moroishi
Shota Kawano
Shinichi Hirata
Israel (6)
Shraga Weinberg
Boaz Kramer
Noam Gershony
Itay Erenlib
Sweden (7)
Anders Hard
Petter Edström
Christer Jansson
Austria (8)
Peter Tatschl
Markus Wallner
JUNIOR EVENT
Netherlands (1)
Carlos Anker
Diede de Groot
Mitchel Graauw
Sam Schröder
Spain (2)
Martín De la Puente
Félix García
Russia (3)
Viktoriia Lvova
Artur Saitgareev
Ildus Shaikhislamov
USA (4, Wild Card)
Christopher Herman
Conner Stroud
Casey Ratzlaff
Great Britain (5)
Ian Payne
Luz Esperanza Merry
Nicholas Smelt
Turkey (6, Wild Card)
Ayse Gul Zararsiz
Tayfur Abbasogullari
Oguzhan Gunes
Chile (7, Wild Card)
Brayan Tapia
Alexander Cataldo
Malaysia (8, Wild Card)
Nazri Jefri
Mohamad Firdaus Ibrahim
MEN’S WORLD GROUP II
Brazil (seeded 1, Qualifier)
Daniel Rodrigues
Carlos Santos
Rafael Medeiros
Belgium (2)
Joachim Gerard
Mike Denayer
Gert Vos
Canada (3, Wild Card)
Philippe Bedard
Joel Dembe
Jean Sylvestre
Switzerland (4)
Daniel Pellegrina
Raphael Gremion
Christophe Vouillamoz
Italy (5)
Fabian Mazzei
Luca Arca
Ivan Tratter
Spain (6, Qualifier)
Roberto Chamizo
Alvaro Illobre
Martín Varela
Malaysia (7, Qualifier)
Abu Samah Borhan
Ariffahmi Zaquan Arrifin
Sri Lanka (8)
Gamini Dissanayake
Upali Rajakaruna
Germany (9)
Steffen Sommerfeld
Sven Hiller
Peter Seidl
Anthony Dittmar
Morocco (10, Wild Card)
Boukartacha Lhaj
Ayoub Ettali
Fouad Boughnim
Greece (11)
Stefanos Diamantis
Georgios Lazaridis
Epaminondas Stamatis
Nigeria (12, Qualifier)
Alex Adewale
Wasiu Yusuf
Jude Uwazie
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