U.S. wheelchair teams heading to BNP Paribas World Team Cup in Turkey

The U.S. will send three teams to compete in the men's, quad and junior events at the the flagship international wheelchair tennis competition, the BNP Paribas World Team Cup, which begins in Turkey next week.

A total of 44 teams representing 21 countries will compete from May 7-12 at the Megasaray Club Belek in Antalya, Turkey.

Of the 10 players who've been selected to represent the red, white and blue, only one, Sabina Czauz from Colorado, is making their debut in wheelchair tennis' international team competition. The 17-year-old is the seventh-ranked junior girl in the ITF world rankings, and joins Charlie Cooper, Tomas Majetic and Max Wong on the U.S. junior squad. Cooper, 16, cracked the Top 5 in the boys' international rankings last month, while Wong is the reigning USTA junior and senior national champion.

The three returners were all members of the U.S. team that finished runner-up in the competition 12 months ago, which marked the Americans' best finish since its juniors won three straight titles from 2015-17.

In the pro ranks 12 months ago, the quad team finished with a bronze medal, while the men placed seventh. But two years ago, the U.S. men's team of Jason Keatseangslip, Casey Ratzlaff and Conner Stroud earned the U.S.'s best finish (fourth) in nearly two decades, and the trio returns this year in the hopes of again challenging for a podium finish. Ratzlaff enters the competition as the top-ranked American man in the world at No. 14, one spot off his career-high of No. 13, while Keatseangslip and Stroud have proven themselves a formidable doubles team; the pair have won 12 titles together, including six in 2023. 

In the quad division, the legendary David Wagner, who turned 50 last month, is suiting up in the World Team Cup for a 22nd time, as he eyes a sixth Paralympic berth in Paris later this year. He'll be joined by Andrew Bogdanov, who made his World Team Cup debut last year, and Hunter Groce, who is returning to the U.S. quad team for a third time after playing in 2015-16. Groce recently reached his career-high quad doubles ranking of No. 27, and won his first doubles title on tour in 13 years this spring when he partnered Bogdanov to a victory in Indian Wells.