The ITF has announced the nominations for the 2013 BNP Paribas World Team Cup wheelchair tennis event at the Club Ali Bey Manavgat in Antalya, Turkey on 20-26 May. Netherlands is defending its women’s and junior titles, while France is the defending men’s champion and Israel the defending quad champion.
A total of 52 teams from 28 countries are contesting five events: men’s World Group (12 nations), men’s World Group 2 (12 nations), women’s World Group (12 nations), quad event (8 teams) and junior event (8 teams). Regional qualifying events were held in Kenya, Turkey and USA, with men’s teams from Canada, Greece and Nigeria, and women’s teams from South Africa and Spain joining the direct entries and wild cards.
The World Team Cup is the ITF’s flagship wheelchair tennis event, often referred to as the Davis and Fed Cups of wheelchair tennis. 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.
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BNP PARIBAS WORLD TEAM CUP
ANTALYA, TURKEY
MEN’S WORLD GROUP
Netherlands (seeded 1)
Maikel Scheffers
Ronald Vink
Rody de Bie
France (2)
Stephane Houdet
Michael Jeremiasz
Nicolas Peifer
Federicc Cattaneo
Japan (3)
Shingo Kunieda
Takashi Sanada
Takuya Miki
Great Britain (4)
Gordon Reid
Marc McCarroll
Dave Phillipson
Austria (5)
Martin Legner
Thomas Mossier
Thomas Flax
Josef Riegler
Poland (6)
Tadeusz Kruszelnicki
Piotr Jaroszewski
Albin Batycki
Kamil Fabisiak
Sweden (7)
Stefan Olsson
Peter Vikstrom
Dan Wallin
Niclas Rodhborn
USA (8)
Steve Welch
Steve Baldwin
Anthony Lara
South Africa (9)
Evans Maripa
Leon Els
Gift Lekganyane
Donald Ramphadi
Korea, Rep. (10)
Sam-Ju Kim
Ji-Hwan Lee
Sang-Ho Oh
Argentina (11)
Gustavo Fernandez
Jose Castricini
Oscar Diaz
Thailand (12)
Suthi Khlongrua
Sumrerng Kruamai
Suwitchai Merngprom
MEN’S WORLD GROUP 2
Australia (seeded 1)
Benjamin Weekes
Adam Kellerman
Keegan Oh Chee
Canada (2, Qualifier)
Joel Dembe
Philippe Bedard
Eric Gilbert
Germany (3)
Steffen Sommerfeld
Sven Hiller
Pedro Krummel
Anthony Dittmar
Belgium (4)
Joachim Gerard
Mike Denayer
Gert Vos
Sri Lanka (5)
Upali Rajakaruna
Gamini Dissanayake
Italy (6)
Fabian Mazzei
Ivan Lion
Luca Spano
Spain (7)
Roberto Chamizo
Martín Varela
Alvaro Illobre
Croatia (8, Wild Card)
Anto Joskic
Drazen Miksic
Ninoslav Krsnik
Greece (9, Qualifier)
Georgios Lazaridis
Stefanos Diamantis
Epaminondas Stamatis
Israel (10, Wild Card)
Asaaf Stokol
Amir Levi
Adam Berdichevsky
Turkey (11, Wild Card)
Turan Akalin
Ismail Canturk
Malik Aydınlı
Muharrem Cakmak
Nigeria (12, Qualifier)
Alex Adewale
Jude Uwazie
WOMEN’S WORLD GROUP
Netherlands (1)
Aniek van Koot
Jiske Griffioen
Sharon Walraven
Germany (2)
Sabine Ellerbrock
Katharina Kruger
Bianca Osterer
Great Britain (3)
Lucy Shuker
Jordanne Whiley
Louise Hunt
Japan (4)
Yui Kamiji
Miho Nijo
South Africa (5, Qualifier)
Kgothatso Montjane
Mabel Mankgele
Rose van der Meer
Chile (6)
Francisca Mardones
Macarena Cabrillana
Isabel Aguirre
Korea, Rep. (7)
Ju-Yeon Park
Myung-Hee Hwang
Jung-Hye Yeo
Thailand (8)
Sakhorn Khanthasit
Chusri Inthanin
Ratana Techamaneewat
Turkey (9, Wild Card)
Busra Un
Ebru Bulgurcu
Julide Yildiz
Nese Aydemir
USA (10)
Emmy Kaiser
Kaitlyn Verfuerth
Shelby Baron
Australia (11, Wild Card)
Janel Manns
Luba Josevski
Sarah Calati
Spain (12, Qualifier)
Elena Jacinto
Lola Ochoa
QUAD EVENT
USA (1)
David Wagner
Nick Taylor
Greg Hasterok
Bryan Barten
Israel (2)
Noam Gershony
Shraga Weinberg
Patrick Ben Uriel
Great Britain (3)
Jamie Burdekin
Antony Cotterill
Adam Field
Sweden (4, Wild Card)
Anders Hard
Marcus Jonsson
Christer Jansson
Canada (5, Wild Card)
Sarah Hunter
Adrian Dieleman
Gary Luker
South Africa (6)
Lucas Sithole
Bongani Dlamini
Steven Kekai
Italy (7)
Antonio Raffaele
Giuseppe Polidori
Marco Innocenti
Japan (8)
Mitsuteru Moroishi
Shinichi Hirata
Shota Kawano
JUNIOR EVENT
Great Britain (1)
Alfie Hewett
Lauren Jones
Luz Esperanza Merry
Netherlands (2)
Diede de Groot
Carlos Anker
Thomas Zomerdijk
South Africa (3)
Mariska Venter
Thato Tsomole
Spain (4, Wild Card)
Félix García
Martín De la Puente
Russia (5, Wild Card)
Polina Shakirova
Artur Saitgareev
Viktoriia Lvova
USA (6)
Krystal Kelley
Christopher Herman
Casey Ratzlaff
Iraq (7, Wild Card)
Hussein Hamed Hel
Zahraa Kadhim Jawad
Shahad Abbas Ayyez
Tanzania (8, Wild Card)
Novatus Emmanuel Temba
Mohamed Hamis Juma
Tanzania (8, Wild Card)
Novatus Emmanuel Temba
Mohamed Hamis Juma