Vilamoura: 150 players compete in the Wheelchair Tennis Team World Cup

This competition is equivalent to the Davis Cup and the Billie Jean King Cup

150 players from 44 teams from 22 countries will compete in the Wheelchair Tennis Team World Championship in Vilamoura. 

This competition is equivalent to the Davis Cup and the Billie Jean King Cup (former Fed Cup) and will be the first time that the final phase of the most important event in wheelchair tennis takes place in our country, with the organization in charge of the Portuguese Federation Tennis and Premier Sports.

The Championship is made up of four categories – men's, women's, quads and juniors – and will bring together world ranking leaders, world champions, Grand Slam and Paralympic champions. The constitutions of the teams will be known in the coming days.

As an organizing team, the Portuguese national team received a w to compete in the final round of the Wheelchair Tennis Team World Championship. With Joaquim Nunes as captain, Portugal will be represented in the men's tournament by Carlos Leitão, Fábio Reis, João Couceiro and João Melo.

 

Teams

Male Board (Open): South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, South Korea, Spain, United States of America, France, Great Britain, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Sri Lanka

Female board (Open): Germany, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, United States of America, France, Great Britain, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, Thailand

Quad frame (mixed): South Africa, Brazil, United States of America, Great Britain, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Turkey

Junior team (mixed): Argentina, Australia, Brazil, United States of America, France, Great Britain, Japan, Netherlands

Format

All matches consist of two singles matches and one doubles match.

Men's table: group stage with four groups of four teams, from which the winners qualify for the semi-finals (Group 1 vs. Group 4, Group 2 vs. Group 3). The second, third and fourth ranked face each other, in the same logic, in the discussion for positions 5-8, 9-12 and 13-16, respectively.

Women's table: similar to the men's tournament, but with four groups of three teams and, therefore, 12 positions at stake.

Quads table: group stage with two groups of four teams, from which the best classified go to the semi-finals (1st place Group 1 vs. 2nd place Group 2, 2nd place Group 1 vs. 1. th place Group 2). The winners meet in the final, while the losers play the match for the allocation of third and fourth places. The third and fourth places in the group stage face off against each other in the fight for positions 5-8, with the winners fighting for places 5-6 and the losers fighting for positions 7-8.

Junior team: similar to the quad category, with the difference being in the clearance of positions 5-8: here, the third classified fight directly for the fifth place and the fourth classified for the seventh position.

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