The tournament is the premier wheelchair tennis team event and is due to take place for the third time on the clay courts of the Club Ali Bey Manavgat on the Turkish Riviera from May 25 to 31 next year.

Club Ali Bey Manavgat previously staged the World Team Cup in 2010 and 2013, while the resort has a long history of hosting major ITF events, including the current ITF Super-Seniors World Team and Individual Championships.

Next year marks the 30th anniversary of the event, which is expected to attract over 100 teams from 50 countries.

Teams will compete in men's world group one and two, women's world group, quad and junior events.

Regional qualifying events were introduced in 2012 and four qualifiers will held early next year to determine the final line-up for Antalya.

The African qualifier is due to take place at the Nairobi Club in Kenya from February 26 to March 1 next year, while the Asian qualifier is scheduled to be staged at the Sri Lanka Tennis Association in Colombo from March 28 to 31.

The Kaya Belek Resort Hotel in Antalya will be the setting for the European qualifier on a date yet to be confirmed.

A date and venue is yet to be finalised for the American qualifier.

Marjolein Buis was part of the Dutch team that won the women's World Group title on home soil last year ©Getty Images



"The ITF is delighted that the BNP Paribas World Team Cup will return to Antalya, which staged extremely successful events in 2010 and 2013," said ITF President Francesco Ricci Bitti.

"This is the most prestigious tournament on the ITF's wheelchair tennis calendar, and we are pleased to see its continued growth since the introduction of qualifying events."

BNP Paribas has been the event's title sponsor since 2012 in a five-year agreement that runs through 2016.

Last year's tournament was held at the Nieuwe Sloot Tennis Centre in Alphen, The Netherlands.

France won its sixth men's World Group title while the host nation claimed its 27th women's World Group crown.

Great Britain won the quad event for the fourth time and Russia won its first ever World Team Cup title in the junior event.

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