World Team Cup 2025: Preview, format, draw, teams & how to watch live
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As the world’s top wheelchair tennis nations come together for the BNP Paribas World Team Cup in Antalya, Turkey, find out everything you need to know about this year’s event, who’s playing and how you can watch at home.
What is the World Team Cup?
The World Team Cup is the biggest team competition in wheelchair tennis and is the ITF’s equivalent to the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup.
Following regional qualifiers across the world, 44 teams from 20 countries head to the finals event to compete for the title of world team champions.
There are four competitions taking place – men’s, women’s, quad and junior – with nations finishing with an overall position amongst all the competing teams.
When is the World Team Cup 2025?
The 2025 World Team Cup gets underway from Tuesday 7 May through to finals day on Sunday 11 May.
How to watch the World Team Cup 2025
Coverage of this year’s World Team Cup will be available to watch live on the Tennis Channel.
You can also stream the action on the ITF’s dedicated Wheelchair Tennis video site. There will be streaming from the five main courts during the World Team Cup and visitors will be able to watch replays and highlights.
What is the draw & schedule for the World Team Cup 2025?
Each event begins in a round-robin pool format, with the top teams in each group progressing to a knockout semi-final and then eventually, the final.
- Men’s draw – four pools of four nations (top teams progress)
- Women’s draw – four pools of three nations (top teams progress)
- Quad draw – two pools of four nations (top two teams progress)
- Junior draw – two pools of four nations (top two teams progress)
More information on the schedule and draw for this year’s event will be available from Monday 6 May.
Where is the World Team Cup being held?
For the fourth time since 2010 the World Team Cup will take place on the clay courts at the Club Ali Bey Manavgat resort in Antalya, Turkey. This is the second time a nation has hosted the World Team Cup in successive years since 1991.
Which British players have been selected for the World Team Cup 2025?
This year, the Lexus GB World Team Cup Team will compete in each of the men’s, women’s, quad and junior events and will join Brazil, Colombia and Japan as the only four nations contesting all four World Team Cup competitions.
Ben Bartram and Dahnon Ward, both members of last year’s men’s team that won a second successive World Team Cup men’s title, will lead the men’s team this year alongside Andrew Penney who is selected to the senior men’s team for the first time. All three players have been part of medal-winning junior teams in recent years.
Meanwhile, the women’s team once again marries experience with youth as British No.1 Lucy Shuker and Cornelia Oosthuizen are joined by Ruby Bishop.
Britain’s quad team will be led by Paris 2024 quad doubles silver medallists Andy Lapthorne and Greg Slade, with Gary Cox selected to make his second successive World Team Cup appearance.
Ruben Harris, named LTA Junior Wheelchair Player of the Year at the recent LTA Tennis Awards presented by Lexus, was a member of the Great Britain team that won the World Team Cup junior title in 2023 and this year he is joined in a four-strong team by Will Barton, Lucas de Gouveia and Matthew Knoesen, all members of the LTA’s National Age Group Programmes.
Read about the Great Britain squad
Where did the Great Britain teams finish at the 2024 World Team Cup?
In 2024 Great Britain’s men’s team won a fourth World Team Cup men’s title since 2015, with last year’s victory also being their second title in a row.
Meanwhile, the women’s team finished in firth place and the quad and junior teams finished sixth in their respective draws.
Which other countries are competing at the World Team Cup?
Check out the full list of teams competing alongside the Brits in the men’s women’s and junior events:
Men’s: Spain, Netherlands, France, Chile, Brazil, USA, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Morocco Japan, Germany, Turkey, Poland, Iraq
Women’s: Netherlands, France, Colombia, Germany, Thailand, Brazil, Morocco, Japan, Switzerland, Turkey, Tanzania
Quad: Turkey, Australia, Brazil, USA, Colombia, Netherlands, Japan
Juniors: USA, Australia, Japan, Brazil, Belgium, Germany, Colombia
