Top U.S. Juniors to Compete in World Team Event Qualies in Mexico

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ORLANDO, Fla., Might 3, 2022 – The US Tennis Affiliation (USTA) introduced the 12 prime juniors nominated to signify the U.S. within the qualifying rounds of the Junior Davis Cup and Junior Billie Jean King Cup by BNP Paribas (16-and-under) and the ITF World Junior Tennis (14-and-under), the world’s premier junior workforce competitions. The occasions might be performed on Might 5-7 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

The North/Central American and Caribbean Remaining Qualifying rounds include three days of round-robin play, with every matchup consisting of two singles matches and one doubles match. The highest two international locations from every four-country pool will advance to the occasion finals later this yr. The 2022 Junior Davis Cup and Junior Billie Jean King Cup by BNP Paribas Finals will happen in Antalya, Turkey, Nov. 1-6, whereas the ITF World Junior Tennis Finals will happen in Prostejov, Czech Republic.

That is the primary time the U.S. might be competing in these occasions since 2019 in any case junior occasions had been canceled in 2020 and the U.S. opted to not ship groups in 2021 on account of issues surrounding COVID-19. The U.S. Junior Billie Jean King Cup workforce was the three-time defending champions heading into final yr’s competitors, whereas the U.S. boys gained consecutive World Junior Tennis titles in 2018 and 2019. The U.S. Junior Davis Cup reached the ultimate of the 2019 occasion, which was held on the USTA Nationwide Campus.

The complete U.S. workforce nominations:

Junior Davis Cup
Nikita Filin (15; Wilmette, Unwell.)
Rudy Quan (16; Thousand Oaks, Calif.)
Alex Razeghi (15; Humble, Texas)
Captain: Jon Glover

Junior Billie Jean King Cup
Maya Joint (16; Grosse Pointe, Mich.)
Iva Jovic (14; Torrance, Calif.)
Mia Slama (16; Boca Raton, Fla.)
Captain: Jamea Jackson

ITF World Junior Tennis – Boys
Keaton Hance (13; Torrance, Calif.)
Jack Kennedy (13, Huntington, N.Y.)
Carel Ngounoue (13; Washington, D.C.)
Captain: Jose Caballero

ITF World Junior Tennis – Women
Tyra Grant (14; Bordighera, Italy)
Shannon Lam (13; East Brunswick, N.J.)
Julieta Pareja (13; Carlsbad, Calif.)
Captain: Lori Riffice

The U.S. has gained six Junior Billie Jean King Cup titles (2008, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019); three Junior Davis Cup titles (1999, 2008, 2014); seven World Junior Tennis women’ titles (1992, 2007-10, 2013, 2017) and 6 World Junior Tennis boys’ titles (2002-03, 2008, 2012, 2018, 2019). Former U.S. junior worldwide workforce members embody Jim Courier, Andy Roddick, James Blake, Lindsay Davenport, and Sloane Stephens. Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic even have represented their respective international locations in junior worldwide workforce competitors.