BNP Paribas World Team Cup nominations named

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has announced the nominations for the 2016 BNP Paribas World Team Cup wheelchair tennis event that begins Monday (23 May) at the Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo, Japan. Defending their 2015 titles are Great Britain men’s team, Netherlands women’s team, and USA quad team and junior teams.

A total of 52 teams from 29 countries are contesting five events: men’s World Group (12 teams), men’s World Group 2 (12 teams), women’s World Group (12 teams), quad event (eight teams) and junior event (eight teams). Regional qualifying events were held in Ecuador, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Turkey to determine six men’s and four women’s teams to join the direct entries.

The BNP Paribas World Team Cup, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2015, is the ITF’s flagship wheelchair tennis event, often referred to as the Davis and Fed Cups of wheelchair tennis.

The seedings for the men's, women's and quad events are based on the combined rankings of the top two singles players from each nation, using the ITF ranking of 16 May.

France is top seed for the men's World Group this year, while the Netherlands is top seed for the women's World Group, and Great Britain is top seed for the quad event. The USA is the top seed for the junior event and Brazil is top seed for men's World Group 2.

In the event that the combined rankings are the same for two different nations in any one event, the higher seeding is given to the nation with the highest ranked individual player.

The draw will take place on Sunday (22 May), with matches starting on Monday and running until Saturday (28 May). The event is being hosted by the Japanese Tennis Association (JTA).

More information on the 2016 BNP Paribas World Team Cup team nominations can be found on the ITF’s website.

MEN’S WORLD GROUP

France (seed 1)

Stephane Houdet

Nicolas Peifer

Frederic Cattaneo

Michael Jeremiasz

Japan (2)

Shingo Kunieda

Takashi Sanada

Takuya Miki

Satoshi Saida

Australia (3)

Adam Kellerman

Benjamin Weekes

Keegan Oh Chee

Argentina (4)

Gustavo Fernandez

Agustin Ledesma

Ezequiel Casco

Facundo Palacio

Great Britain (5)

Alfie Hewett

Marc McCarroll

Dermot Bailey

Paul Stewart

Spain (6)

Daniel Caverzaschi

Martin de la Puente

Francesc Tur

Netherlands (7)

Maikel Scheffers

Ricky Molier

Carlos Anker

Belgium (8)

Joachim Gerard

Mike Denayer

Gert Vos

USA (9)

Jon Rydberg

Steve Baldwin

Hunter Groce

South Korea (10)

Ha-Gel Lee

Ho-Won Im

Sang-Ho Oh

Pill-Kyo Jung

Sweden (11)

Stefan Olsson

Dan Wallin

Henrik Härstedt

Austria (12)

Nico Langmann

Thomas Flax

MEN’S WORLD GROUP 2

Brazil (seed 1)

Daniel Rodrigues

Carlos Santos

Rafael Medeiros

Mauricio Pomme

Poland (2)

Kamil Fabisiak

Tadeusz Kruszelnicki

Albin Batycki

Israel (3, wild card)

Adam Berdichevsky

Amir Levi

Asi Stokol

Schmulik Daniel

China (4, qualifier)

Zujun Wei

Shunjiang Dong

Junhui Ding

Morocco (5, qualifier)

Lhaj Boukartacha

Ayoub Ettali

Said Himam

Greece (6, qualifier)

Stefanos Diamantis

Georgios Lazaridis

Malaysia (7)

Abu Samah Borhan

Ariffahmi Zaquan Arrifin

Thailand (8)

Suthi Khlongrua

Wittaya Peem-Mee

Sumrerng Kruamai

Colombia (9, qualifier)

Eliecer Oquendo

Diego Fernando Cortes Bernal

Switzerland (10)

Daniel Pellegrina

Raphaël Gremion

Yann Jauss

Sri Lanka (11)

Upali Rajakaruna

Gamini Dissanayake

Lasntha Ranaweera

Hungary (12, wild card)

Roland Nemeth

Attila Farkas

Gyorgy Bovier

WOMEN’S WORLD GROUP

Netherlands (seed 1)

Jiske Griffioen

Aniek van Koot

Marjolein Buis

Diede de Groot

Japan (2)

Yui Kamiji

Kanako Domori

Miho Nijo

Manami Tanaka

USA (3)

Emmy Kaiser

Dana Mathewson

Kaitlyn Verfuerth

Shelby Baron

Russia (4, qualifier)

Ludmila Bubnova

Viktoriia Lvova

Polina Shakirova

France (5)

Charlotte Famin

Emmanuelle Morch

Pauline Helouin

China (6, qualifier)

Zhenzhen Zhu

Huimin Huang

Ziying Wang

Great Britain (7)

Louse Hunt

Lauren Jones

Luz Esperanza Merry

Chile (8)

Francisca Mardones

Macarena Cabrillana

Maria Diaz

Brazil (9, qualifier)

Natalia Mayara

Rejane Candida

Meirycoll Duval

Thailand (10)

Sakhorn Khanthasit

Wanitha Inthanin

Chanungarn Techamaneewat

Colombia (11)

Angelica Bernal

Johana Martinez Vega

Morocco (12, qualifier)

Malika Khelifi

Najwa Awane

Habboubi Naima

QUAD EVENT

Great Britain (seed 1, wild card)

Andy Lapthorne

Jamie Burdekin

Antony Cotterill

USA (2)

David Wagner

Nick Taylor

Bryan Barten

Greg Hasterok

Israel (3)

Itay Erenlib

Shraga Weinberg

Boaz Kramer

Noam Gershony

Japan (4)

Mitsuteru Moroishi

Shota Kawano

Takahiro Koga

Shinichi Hirata

Italy (5)

Alberto Corradi

Antonio Raffaele

Alfredo di Cosmo

South Africa (6)

Lucas Sithole

Bongani Dlamini

Danny Mohlamonyane

Australia (7, wild card)

Dylan Alcott

Heath Davidson

Canada (8)

Gary Luker

Mika Ishikawa

Rob Shaw

Sarah Hunter