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U.S. team named for BNP Paribas World Team Cup: Junior Festival

May 19, 2026

The United States Tennis Association (USTA) announced the players who will represent the United States at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup: Junior Festival, May 27-31, in Knokke-Heist, Belgium. For the first-time ever, the junior division will have separate boys' and girls' events.

 

Representing the U.S. for the boys are Spencer Davis (McLean, Va.), Matthew Nadauld (Bountiful, Utah), Jeremy Perez (Joshua, Texas) and Noah Schepman (Germantown, Tenn.). The girls' team will feature: returning junior, Lucy Heald (Lookout Mountain, Ga.) along with newcomers Mattingly Bristow (Weatherford, Texas), Lily Terral (Houston) and Elliana Blaine (Andover, Minn.). The Americans will look to hoist the boys and girls junior trophy after falling to Great Britain in the combined final last year.

World Team Cup is the ITF’s flagship wheelchair tennis event, the wheelchair equivalent to Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup. Fifteen teams (9 boys & 6 girls) from ten countries are set to contest the BNP Paribas Junior World Team Cup World Group. The junior events start with 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.

 

The teams representing the U.S. at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup: Junior Festival are listed below.

 

Boys Team

  • Spencer Davis (McLean, Va.)
  • Matthew Nadauld (Bountiful, Utah)
  • Jeremy Perez (Joshua, Texas)
  • Noah Schepman (Germantown, Tenn.)
  • Jon Rydberg (Pine City, Minn.) - Captain
The 2025 World Team Cup juniors display their medals. Photo by Frank Molter/USTA.

Girls Team

  • Lucy Heald (Lookout Mountain, Ga.)
  • Mattingly Bristow (Weatherford, Texas)
  • Lily Terral (Houston)
  • Elliana Blaine (Andover, Minn.)
  • Kevin Heim (Lincoln, Neb.) - Captain

 

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.

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