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2009 Invacare ITF World Team Cup Information- July 26-August 2, 2009
Nottingham, England
2009 Selection Procedures
2009 Fact Sheet
2009 USTA Team Announcement
2009 Countries
ITF WTC Site
2009 Invacare World Team Cup kicks off
Day 1 Recap
Day 2 Recap
Day 3 Recap
Day 4 Recap
Day 5 & 6 Recap
Day 7 Recap
2009 United States Invacare World Team Cup Coaches and Staff
Head and Men's Coach-Dan James
Women's Coach-Paul Walker
Quad Coach-Jason Harnett
Junior Coach-Keri Preng
Manager-Jeremiah Yolkut
Trainer-John Finley
2009 United States Invacare World Team Cup Athletes
Men's Team
Paul Moran
John Becker
Zach Beaulieu
Women's Team
Emmy Kaiser
Dana Mathewson
Hope Lewellen
Quad Team
David Wagner
Nick Taylor
Bryan Barten
Junior Team
Dylan Levine
Mackenzie Soldan
Ryan Nelson
The World Team Cup was created in 1985 due to the growth of foreign participation in the US Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships. It began more as a fun event that was used as a warm-up tournament the weekend before the US Open. It was also felt that it would create international camaraderie and one day the tournament would stand on its own. Just six men's teams competed in the inaugural event with women joining the competition with two teams the following year.
By 1991, the US Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships and the World Team Cup had grown beyond anyone's expectations and having the events back to back was too much. It was hard on the tournament organisers and the top players and it was felt the time had come to move to a new location and a different time of year.
Following discussions at the 1991 IWTF Annual General Meeting, Belgium said that they would love to hold the event and in 1992, the World Team Cup moved outside the USA for the first time. In addition, the IWTF office had been established in London for one year and was able to offer support and assistance to new host nations, taking the huge organisational responsibility away from the NFWT.
The 2004 Invacare World Team Cup, held in Christchurch, New Zealand, marked the event's 20th Anniversary. The event has now been staged in 12 different countries and is a massive stand-alone tournament with over 300 participants and around 150 additional guests and coaches each year.
In 2009 the Invacare World Team Cup marks its 25th Anniversary when Nottingham, Great Britain, hosts the ITF's flagship annual wheelchair tennis team event for the third time.
"There is no question that representing your country while playing sport is an extremely exciting and rewarding feeling, one that only a select few will ever experience. The World Team Cup gave wheelchair tennis a new meaning when it first occurred in 1985 and the sport truly became international."
- Brad Parks, USA
Courtesy ITF
2008 Invacare ITF World Team Cup Information