2025 BNP Paribas World Team Cup: Oda, De Groot, Vink among star names
The 2025 BNP Paribas World Team Cup returns to Antalya, Turkiye, from 6–11 May, with 44 teams from 20 nations contesting the ITF’s flagship wheelchair tennis team event.
Teams will compete across men’s, women’s, quad and junior categories following four regional qualification events and the allocation of ITF wild cards. Brazil, Colombia, Great Britain and Japan will each field teams in all four events. The junior draw continues to spotlight players supported by the ITF’s Junior Wheelchair Tennis Programme in partnership with the Johan Cruyff Foundation.
This year’s event will see the return of World No.3 and 2024 ITF World Champion Diede de Groot, who will resume international competition after injury. Alongside long-time teammate Aniek van Koot, she will lead the Netherlands’ quest to reclaim the title after finishing as runners-up to China in 2024. They will face stiff competition for the title, including from a Japan team led by World No.1 Yui Kamiji.
Japan arrives as the men’s No.1 seeds, led by World No.1 and 2024 ITF World Champion Tokito Oda. Despite Paralympic and Grand Slam success, a World Team Cup senior title still eludes Oda, who helped Japan to their first junior title in 2021. He is joined by doubles partner Takuya Miki as they seek to deliver Japan’s first men’s title since 2018.
In the quad competition, Niels Vink and Sam Schroder will aim to secure a fourth World Team Cup title in five years for the Netherlands, following victories from 2021 to 2023. The Dutch return as top seeds after dominating both singles and doubles formats in 2023. Turkiye’s Ahmet Kaplan and Ugur Altinel will look to go one better than last year, when they earned an historic silver medal after falling to Chile in the final on home soil.
The event will also see several other nations vying for medals, including defending men’s champions Great Britain, France, Brazil and the USA. Great Britain will be led by Ben Bartram, who helped the team reach the semi-finals on their way to lifting the trophy last year; while USA’s team features another young star in Conner Stroud. The event will also feature a wealth of experienced players such as Maikel Scheffers, Lucy Shuker and David Wagner.
Several nations will mark major milestones in Antalya. Tanzania will make their debut in the women’s World Group after finishing runners-up to Morocco in the African Qualification, while Colombia enters the Quad World Group for the first time after winning a combined Americas and Asia regional qualifier. Iraq also returns to the men’s event for the first time since 2010 - the year Antalya first hosted the World Group.
The event marks the fifth time the World Team Cup has been hosted in Antalya, with Club Ali Bey Manavgat staging the tournament in 2010, 2013, 2015, and now in 2025, while the 2024 edition was held at the Megasaray Tennis Academy. The Netherlands, multiple-time champions in the quad event, qualified this year through the European Qualification after missing key players in 2024 due to preparations for the Paris Paralympic Games.