NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED FOR 2014 BNP PARIBAS WORLD TEAM CUP WHEELCHAIR TENNIS EVENT

Written by: Staff on 23rd May 2014

NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED FOR 2014 BNP PARIBAS WORLD TEAM CUP WHEELCHAIR TENNIS EVENT

epa04040420 Shingo Kunieda of Japan in action against Gustavo Fernandez of Argentina during their Men's Wheelchair final match at the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia, 25 January 2014. Kunieda won his seventh Australian Open title. EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON |

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

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

Topics: Bnp Paribas, Itf, Tennis, Tennis News, Wheelchair Tennis, world team cup

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