Top juniors to compete in junior world team event qualifying
The United States remains the team to beat as the 2025 Davis Cup Juniors and Billie Jean King Cup Juniors by Gainbridge (16-and-under) and the ITF World Junior Tennis (14-and-under) competitions kick off this week. Twelve top juniors will represent the U.S. in the qualifying rounds of these events, the world’s premier junior team competitions. The events will be played April 16-18 at IGA Stadium in Montreal, Canada.
The North/Central American and Caribbean Final Qualifying rounds consist of three days of round-robin play, with each matchup consisting of two singles matches and one doubles match. The top two countries from each four-country pool will advance to the event finals later this year.
The U.S. enters this year’s competitions as reigning champions in three of the four divisions. The U.S. girls have won three consecutive Billie Jean King Cup Juniors titles, while both boys' teams were crowned world champions in 2024. The American girls finished runner-up at the 2024 WJT Finals.
The U.S. has won nine Junior Billie Jean King Cup titles (2008, 2012, 2014, 2017-19, 2022-24); four Junior Davis Cup titles (1999, 2008, 2014, 2024); seven World Junior Tennis girls’ titles (1992, 2007-10, 2013, 2017) and seven World Junior Tennis boys’ titles (2002-03, 2008, 2012, 2018, 2019, 2024).
Former U.S. junior international team members include Jim Courier, Andy Roddick, James Blake, Lindsay Davenport, Sloane Stephens and Coco Gauff. Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Iga Swiatek and Carlos Alcaraz also have represented their respective countries in junior international team competition.
The 2024 U.S. Junior Billie Jean King Cup and Davis Cup Finals teams hold their trophies.
The full U.S. team nominations:
Davis Cup Juniors
Michael Antonius (15; Buffalo, N.Y.)
Andrew Johnson (15; Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.)
Vihaan Reddy (15; San Jose, Calif.)
Captain: Sylvain Guichard
Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Juniors
Annika Penickova (15; Campbell, Calif.)
Kristina Penickova (15; Campbell, Calif.)
Margaret Sohns (15; Cooperstown, N.Y.)
Captain: Georgi Rumenov
ITF World Junior Tennis – Boys
Tristan Ascenzo (14; Dallas)
Indra Vergne (13; West Hills, Calif.)
Alexander Anderson (13; Davis, Calif.)
Captain: Jon Glover
ITF World Junior Tennis – Girls
Emery Combs (14; Conway, S.C.)
Olivia De Los Reyes (14; Scarsdale, N.Y.)
Caroline Shao (13; Doral, Fla.)
Captain: Celeste Frey
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