Ward and Breakwell fly flag in World Team Cup
DAHNON Ward and Abbie Breakwell will be flying the flag for Leicestershire after being selected in GB’s squad of 15 wheelchair tennis players for the BNP Paribas World Team Cup next week.
Ward, of Kegworth, and Loughborough University student Breakwell are part of the performance training squad at Loughborough Lawn Tennis Club.
Great Britain, along with Brazil, Japan and South Africa, will contest all four men’s, women’s, quad and junior competitions in the World Team Cup, which takes place in Antalya, Turkey, from May 7 to 12.
The International Tennis Federation’s flagship wheelchair tennis event is the wheelchair equivalent of the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup.
GB has a long history of success in the World Team Cup.
In 2023, for the first time, the men’s and junior teams won titles in the same year, with both being crowned World Team Cup champions for the third time.
This year, world No.1 Alfie Hewett and world No.5 Gordon Reid again lead the men’s team, with Ward, who made his senior men’s debut during the qualification event in 2022, selected to make his debut in the men’s world group of elite 16 nations.
Seven-time World Team Cup medallist and British No.1 Lucy Shuker will contest her 14th World Team Cup in the women’s event, while GB return to the elite group of eight nations for the quad event after winning their European qualification tournament in Latvia in March.
Erik Koers, head of the LTA’s Wheelchair Performance Pathway, said: “We’re delighted to be able to announce our strongest Lexus GB World Team Cup team for this year’s World Team Cup and to be one of just four wheelchair tennis nations competing in all four men’s, women’s, quad and junior events.
“After both our men’s and junior teams’ victories in Portugal last year, we are confident that all four GB teams can be in medal contention in Turkey as we continue to build towards the Paris 2024 Paralympics and beyond.
“We are also looking to inspire more young people to take up our wonderful sport and aspire to join our wheelchair performance pathway.”
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