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ORLANDO, Fla., April 9, 2025 – The United States Tennis Association (USTA) announced the players and coaches who will represent the United States at the 2025 BNP Paribas World Team Cup. The Americans will look to improve on their medals colors from last year when they captured that silver in the junior and bronze in the quad division. The nation’s top wheelchair tennis players will compete against participants from around the globe, May 6-11, at the Ali Bey Club Manavgat, Antalya, Turkey.

The World Team Cup is the ITF’s flagship wheelchair tennis event, the wheelchair equivalent to Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup. The inaugural event was held 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 event has experienced continued growth since.

Forty-four teams from 15 countries are set to contest the 2025 BNP Paribas World Team Cup World Group. American teams will compete in three separate divisions: quad (8 nations), men’s (16 nations) and junior (8 nations). The men’s, quad and junior events all start in a round-robin group format before the top nations in each round-robin group go forward to the knockout stages to decide the medals and final positions.

Representing the U.S. at the 2025 BNP Paribas World Team Cup will be:

Juniors Team
Sabina Czauz (Thornton, Colo.) – 2nd Team Selection
Lucy Heald (Lookout Mountain, Ga.) – 1st Team Selection
Max Wong (Flushing, N.Y.) – 4th Team Selection
Kevin Heim, Captain (Lincoln, Neb.)

Quad Team
Andrew Bogdanov (Prescott, Ariz.) – 3rd Team Selection
Eric Court (Laie, Hawaii) – 2nd Team Selection
David Wagner (Walla Walla, Wash./San Diego, Calif.) – 23rd Team Selection
John Devorss, Captain (Portland, Ore.)

Men’s Team
Charlie Cooper (La Quinta, Calif.) – 5th Team Selection (1st Men’s Team)
Tomas Majetic (Boulder, Colo.) – 4th Team Selection (1st Men’s Team)
Conner Stroud (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 7th Team Selection
Jon Rydberg, Captain (Woodbury, Minn.)

Team Leaders
Jodie Manganelli, Team Manager (Severna Park, Md.)
Lauren Chamberlin, Team Administrator (Titusville, Fla.)

The USTA was officially designated by the USOPC as the national governing body for the Paralympic sport of wheelchair tennis in June 2002, becoming the first Olympic national governing body to earn this recognition. As the national governing body for wheelchair tennis, the USTA manages wheelchair tennis in the United States, including the sanctioning of tournaments, overseeing wheelchair rankings, creating and managing a High Performance program for developing elite disabled athletes, and selecting teams to compete internationally for the United States.