Germany’s men, Switzerland’s women and Netherlands' quad team each came out on top in the three draws at the 2025 BNP Paribas World Team Cup European Qualification in Antalya, Turkiye, to ensure that they would be back at the Club Ali Bey Manavgat host venue in May for the 2025 World Group.

Germany became just the second nation to win back-to-back men’s draws at the European Qualification after Greece in 2015 and 2016, the two nations drawn together in the same round-robin group in Antalya this year as Germany progressed to the semi-finals with 3-0 wins over both Greece and Croatia.

Elsewhere, top seeds Poland dropped just one set in progressing from their group after 3-0 wins over Switzerland and Estonia, while Austria topped their group after Martin Legner and Maximilian Taucher, separated by a mere 46 years, combined to win deciding doubles matches in their ties against Hungary and Italy.

Italy joined Austria in the semi-finals courtesy of their dramatic 2-1 win over Hungary, secured only in a deciding match tie-break in their deciding doubles match.

Jakub Dominik Bukala and Kamil Fabisiak went on give Poland an unassailable lead after the two singles matches in their semi-final against Italy, while a dominant week for Christoph Wilke and Anthony Dittmar secured Germany’s 2-0 semi victory over Austria.

Wilke’s 4-6 6-1 6-4 win over Bukala in the final brought the only set that Wilke dropped throughout the five days of competition and Dittmar wrapped up an overall 2-0 victory for second seeds Germany against Poland, earning his first win over Fabisiak since 2023 by a margin of 6-3 6-3.

Switzerland women earn European Qualification three-peat

While the men’s and quad draws in Antalya culminated in knock-out draws, the five-way women’s draw provided an enthralling round-robin competition as top seeds Switzerland and second seeds and host nation Turkiye worked their way towards a final showdown on the last day of competition.

Switzerland’s round-robin group ties in each of their last two European Qualification campaigns have included 3-0 wins over Austria, Lithuania and Sweden. Their first three ties this year saw them come up against the same three nations, with similar outcomes as Angela Grosswiler and Nalani Buob steered the Swiss team to 3-0 wins over Sweden and Lithuania and to an unassailable 2-0 lead after singles against Austria, the team that Switzerland beat in both the round-robin phase of the competition and in the final in 2024.

Turkiye’s campaign proved rather more eventful as the second seeds won each of their first three contests against Lithuania, Austria and Sweden after deciding doubles matches, Austria’s challenge on the second day of competition ultimately only being repelled in a deciding match tie-break that Zeliha Aksak and Elfida Algit edged for a 7-5, 1-6, (10-5) win.

However, come the last day of competition and Turkiye were still unbeaten in their first three contests, only to then meet top seeds Switzerland.

Once against Grosswiler and Buob both recorded straight sets wins in their singles matches and Grosswiler then partnered Giulia Damiano to complete Switzerland’s 3-0 victory after defeating Algit and Cigdem Sayin 7-6 6-2, leaving 26-year-old Damiano with a win on her BNP Paribas World Team Cup debut.

As well as having now completed a three-peat of victories at the European Qualification in 2023, 2024 and 2025, Switzerland have now won the regional qualifier a total of four times after their initial victory in 2017.

Top seeds Netherlands dominate quad qualification draw

Having steered Netherlands to three BNP Paribas World Team Cup World Group quad titles between 2001 and 2003, Sam Schroder and Niels Vink’s most recent experience of qualification for the ITF’s flagship wheelchair tennis team event came in 2021 as the competition returned following the Covid-19 pandemic.

However, by virtue of not having contested the 2024 World Team Cup Netherlands needed to qualify this year and Schroder and Vink, the world’s top two ranked quad singles and doubles players, achieved the objective with relative ease as they dropped just five games throughout 3-0 round-robin group wins over Germany and Switzerland and nine games in the knockout phase of competition.

By contrast, the other round-robin saw all three nations end the group phase of the competition with one win apiece, as second seeds France beat Italy 2-1, but lost to Austria 2-1 in a tie ending in a deciding match tie-break in the deciding doubles contest. Meanwhile, Italy defeated Austria 3-0, which was key to Italy joining France in the semi-finals alongside Netherlands and Germany.

Both semi-finals proved to be relatively straightforward for Netherlands and Germany, Schroder and Vink dropping just four games between them in their singles matches against France’s Jerome de Meyere and Justin Michel, while twins Marcus and Maximilian Laudan beat Italy’s Hegor Di Gioia and Alberto Saja in straight sets to set up a second contest of the week between Netherlands and Germany.

The round-robin meeting between Netherlands on the second day of play in Antalya saw Schroder defeat Maximilian Laudan 6-2 6-0, while Vink had beaten Marucs Laudan 6-0 6-1, but come the final Marcus provided Vink with his toughest task of the week before the world No. 1 wrapped up a 2-0 victory for Netherlands with a final 6-4 6-1 singles win.