For the second year in a row, IGA Stadium will play host to the North, Central America, and Caribbean qualifying rounds for the ITF World Junior Team Competitions this week. Team Canada will be looking to punch its ticket to the Finals of the Billie Jean King Cup Juniors, Davis Cup Juniors, and ITF World Junior Tennis (U14 girls and boys) once again.
Last year, all four Canadian teams qualified for their respective finals.
Here is everything you need to know about this week’s qualifying event in Montreal.
Event Format
Each division (Billie Jean King Cup Juniors, Davis Cup Juniors, WJT Girls, WJT Boys) will feature one group of four teams competing in a round robin. Each team will play each other once. The top two teams in each group at the end of the round robin will advance to the Finals later in the year.
Ties between nations will consist of two singles matches and one doubles match. The ties are all best two out of three, with matches being standard best-of-three sets.
The Billie Jean King Cup Juniors, Davis Cup Juniors, and U14 Girls World Junior Tennis divisions all feature the same four teams: Canada, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and the United States. The U14 Boys World Junior Tennis group includes Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States.
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The 2026 U14 World Junior Tennis Finals will take place in Prostejov, Czechia, in early August. The dates and location of the Davis Cup Juniors and Billie Jean King Cup Juniors Finals will be communicated by the ITF at a later date.
Last year, Canada finished second behind the United States in both U14 divisions and the Davis Cup Juniors. Canada’s Billie Jean King Cup Juniors team won their group. The U14 WJT girls team went on to win a silver medal at the Finals in August.
Team Canada Members
Billie Jean King Cup Juniors (U16)
Elisabeth Djabourian
Djabourian recently finished as the runner-up in both singles and doubles at the U16 Fischer Indoor Junior Nationals and won a pair of ITF doubles titles in February.
Amy Shen
Shen is one of just two players returning this April who competed at IGA Stadium in this round of the team event last year. 12 months ago, she went 3-1 in her matches during the qualifying round (2-1 in singles, 1-0 in doubles) to help Canada punch their ticket to the Finals.
In March, Shen was crowned champion in singles at the U16 Fischer Indoor Junior National Championships.
Isabella Ruyu Yan
The only other returning player from last year’s qualifying, Yan was a part of the team that picked up a silver medal at the U14 World Junior Tennis Finals in August, Canada’s best-ever finish at the event. She went 2-1 in the qualifying round in Montreal (1-0 in singles, 1-1 in doubles) and 8-1 in the Finals, with her lone defeat coming in the doubles match of the final against the Americans.
Yan, only 14 years old, won the U18 singles title at the Fischer Indoor Junior Nationals earlier this month.
Captain: Sharon Fichman
Davis Cup Juniors (U16)
Callum Mackinnon
The only member of the National Tennis Centre presented by Rogers competing this week, Mackinnon just finished as the runner-up in doubles at the U16 Fischer Indoor Junior Nationals alongside his teammate this week, Marc-Édouard L'Allier.
Marc-Édouard L’Allier
L’Allier is a four-time doubles titlist on the ITF Junior Tour, with three of those victories coming alongside Mackinnon.
Antoine Tardif
Tardif has had a strong start to 2026, winning an ITF doubles title in Guatemala in February and just won the U16 singles title at the Fischer Indoor Junior Nationals.
Captain: Sandric Barrere
WJT Girls (U14)
Brielle Amey (Age: 14)
Amey delivered a standout performance on the biggest stage back in February, reaching the quarter-finals at Les Petits As, one of the most prestigious junior tournaments in the world.
Victoria Koniouchine
The U14 girls team features both singles finalists at the recent U14 Fischer Indoor Junior Nationals. Koniouchine was the runner-up this year, having won the title in 2025.
Callie Raharinosy
Raharinosy beat Koniouchine for the U14 singles title earlier this month. She did not drop a set on her way to the title.
Captain: Eric Giguere
WJT Boys (U14)
Yvan-Raphael Mefire
Mefire just delivered an impressive run at the U14 Fischer Indoor Junior Nationals, knocking off the top two seeds on his way to the singles title.
Oscar Sounitsky
Sounitsy finished as the runner-up in Vancouver at the U14 Fischer Indoor Junior Nationals, falling in the singles final to Mefire.
Liam Suh
Suh brought home the doubles crown at the U14 Fischer Indoor Junior Nationals, taking down the top two seeded teams on his way to victory.
Captain: Sergio Ibarra
Play will begin at IGA Stadium on Wednesday. The Qualifiers will take place over three days.
Feature Photo : Andre Noel
