Davis Cup Juniors is the premier international team competition for boys aged 16 and under and the season-long tournament this year culminates in the Finals at Estadio Nacional in Santiago, Chile from 3-9 November.
The Finals, which are played alongside the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Junior Finals, are contested as four round-robin groups of four teams over the first three days of play, followed by a rest day and then the knockout stages.
It is the first time that the Finals are being hosted in South America since 2001 when Santiago was also the host city.
HISTORY
The International Team Competition for players aged 16 & under was launched by the ITF in 1985 as the 'World Youth Cup' with NEC as the title sponsor between 1988 and 2001.
In 2002 the ITF re-branded the boys competition as part of a new partnership with BNP Paribas to 'Junior Davis Cup by BNP Paribas'. The girls' competition was also changed to 'Junior Fed Cup by BNP Paribas' in 2005, before becoming the Junior Billie Jean King Cup - in line with the re-branding of the women's professional team event - in 2020.
From its inaugural year in 1985 when 44 nations took part in regional qualifying with the top 16 boys' and 16 girls' teams moving through to the Final in Kobe, Japan, the competition has gone from strength to strength. The number of participants has grown to around 100 nations each year.
Previous winning teams have featured players who have gone on to excel at the top of the game including Rafael Nadal (Spain, 2002), Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov (Canada, 2015), Carlos Alcaraz (Spain, 2018).