Preview: 2025 ITF Masters World Team Champs for players aged 75-85+
Eighteen months after the last edition of the ITF Masters World Team Championships for players aged 75 and above through to 85 and above, the latest flagship event on the ITF World Tennis Masters Tour kicks-off at Tenis Klub Zlatni Rat in Bol, Croatia on Sunday.
The annual tournament for players aged 75 and over through to the 85 and over promises to be a festival of high-quality tennis, national pride and camaraderie. With players waiting a year and a half to represent their nations again, the expectation surrounding the 2025 ITF Masters World Team Championships is building significantly.
The event, which gets underway on Sunday 5 October in Bol and concludes on Friday 10 October, boasts a strong field packed with the world's highest ranked players.
The 44th edition of the event features a variety of returning players, new players and world champions. The 2025 team event will see more than 250 players representing 24 nations, with 70 teams in total battling for honours.
In the women’s competition, Great Britain return with world No. 1 and reigning world champion Marjory Love spearheading the team's defence of the Queen’s Cup (75+)
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France, meanwhile, will seek to keep hold of the Doris Hart Cup (80+), in which they defeated Great Britain in 2024. The French will also look to avenge their finals defeat to Great Britain in last year's Queen's Cup.
The Angela Mortimer Cup (85+) has been entirely dominated by the USA since its introduction in 2019. With every team member representing the Star-spangled Banner in this year's competition a previous world champion, the chasing pack will be feeling the pressure to break the American monopoly.
On the men’s side, Canada triumphed in Turkiye in the Bitsy Grant Cup (75+) and return this year as the No. 2 seeds. No. 1 seeds Spain, who were absent in 2024 but won the previous two editions of the event, will be looking to reclaim their ownership of the competition.
Finally, the USA will be aiming for a famous "four-peat" in the Gardnar Mulloy Cup (80+) and Lorne Main Cup (85+). Having won the previous three titles in each of these tournaments, the rest of the field will be hoping to break the American domination in 2025.
The ITF Masters World Individual Championships in the same age categories follows the team event and runs from 11-18 October.
Each day there will be a live stream from both the ITF Masters World Team and Individual Championships.
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