Marc McCarroll and Andy Lapthorne have both been selected for the Great Britain squad to play in next week’s World Team Cup in Tokyo.
Ickenham’s McCarroll is joined by Alfie Hewett, Dermot Bailey and Paul Stewart to defend their men’s world group title.
Lapthorne, from Eastcote, will be part of the same trio – alongside Jamie Burdekin and Antony Cotterill – that won the World Team Cup quad title in 2014.
“My very first experience of representing Great Britain in the quad event at the World Team Cup ended in us winning the title on home soil in Nottingham in 2009, when we beat the USA in the final,” said Lapthorne.
“Winning the final against the USA again in a match tie-break in the doubles in 2014 was another very special moment and with Rio now getting ever closer, we’ll be doing our utmost to pull off another memorable performance ahead of the Paralympics.”
The World Team Cup, the ITF’s flagship wheelchair tennis event, takes place between 23 and 28 May at Ariake Tennis Colosseum, the venue for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic tennis competitions.
This post was last modified on 19/05/2016