World Team Cup heads to Orlando on 16–19 September

Great Britain’s wheelchair tennis team will compete at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup in Orlando, Florida, from 16 to 19 September 2026.

At a glance: the event venue has not been named in the supplied information. No ticket price, booking process, event time, transport guidance or accessibility information has been published in the source material. The competition features men’s, women’s and quad draws, with Great Britain one of five countries entered in all three.

LTA Tennis News has selected nine players for the Lexus Great Britain squad, which will contest World Tennis’s flagship wheelchair tennis team tournament. The World Team Cup is described as wheelchair tennis’s equivalent of the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup.

Great Britain will enter all three Orlando draws

The men’s team is captained by Martyn Whait and includes Alfie Hewett, Gordon Reid and Ben Bartram. Hewett and Reid are world No. 2 and world No. 5 respectively, according to the source, and won their 25th Grand Slam doubles title together at Wimbledon last month.

Bartram, 21, joins them after reaching the Austrian Open final and moving to a career-high men’s singles ranking of No. 14. The three players were also part of the Great Britain teams that won World Team Cup titles in 2023 and 2024.

Luke Mulvihill captains the women’s squad of Lucy Shuker, Cornelia Oosthuizen and Abbie Breakwell. Shuker, the British No. 1 and a seven-time World Team Cup medallist, is set to make her 16th appearance in the competition. The source says Orlando will be her final World Team Cup event after she announced that 2026 would be her final year of competing.

Marc McCarroll leads the quad team of Andy Lapthorne, Greg Slade and Oliver Cox. Lapthorne and Slade arrive as Paris 2024 Paralympic quad doubles silver medallists, while Cox made his senior Great Britain World Team Cup debut in 2024 after being part of the junior team that won the title a year earlier.

A tournament with a strong British record

Great Britain has won four men’s World Team Cup titles since 2015, with Hewett and Reid involved in each of those victories. Hewett made his senior debut in the 2015 title-winning team; Lapthorne’s senior World Team Cup debut came in a victorious quad team in 2009.

The 2026 event gives the squad a rare annual opportunity to compete as national teams rather than in individual tournaments. Great Britain joins Chile, Colombia, the Netherlands and the United States in fielding teams in the men’s, women’s and quad competitions.

Erik Koers, the team leader and head of the LTA’s Wheelchair Performance Pathway, said the selected players are Great Britain’s top three world-ranked competitors across the men’s, women’s and quad categories. He pointed to last year’s two medals and top-four finish as the team prepares for Orlando.

Practical details confirmed so far

For readers considering attending, the confirmed information currently supports planning around the four-day Orlando date window only. The supplied source does not give a venue, price, booking route, start time, travel information or spectator access details.

Source: LTA Tennis News