Representing your country is a dream for many athletes. Tennis, with so many levels to the tours and such a wide variety of competitions, provides ample opportunity for players to suit up in red and white. This year, many new and familiar faces got the opportunity to represent Canada in team events around the globe.
As 2025 comes to a close, let’s look back at the exploits of Team Canada across the tennis world.
Billie Jean King Cup
2025 saw a new generation of Canadian women step into the spotlight at the Billie Jean King Cup. Five women, Victoria Mboko, Ariana Arseneault, Kayla Cross, Cadence Brace, and Carson Branstine, earned their first nominations this year. Four of them competed in their first matches for Canada (Mboko, Cross, Brace, and Branstine), with three of them securing at least one win (Mboko, Cross, Branstine).
The season started in Tokyo, Japan, where Canada was in Group A for the qualifying round. Canada got off to a strong start by sweeping Romania in their opening tie but lost a heartbreaker in their second against the host Japanese. Japan ultimately won 2-1, clinching the tie and the group with a three-set win in doubles to advance to the Finals, while Canada was sent to the Play-Offs.
Read also: Catching up with 2025 NBO Montreal Champion Victoria Mboko
Team Canada bounced back well in Monterrey, Mexico, in November. Once again in Group A, they survived a scare against Denmark 2-1 in their opening tie before dominating Mexico to seal the group and secure a spot in the 2026 qualifiers.
Billie Jean King Cup success was a big part of Mboko’s larger 2025 breakout. The teen went a perfect 5-0 across the two rounds of the competition. She won both her singles matches in April’s qualifying round and added two more singles wins and a doubles victory to lead Canada through the play-offs. She lost just one set in those five matches.
Click the links below to read the coverage of Canada’s Billie Jean King Cup Team in 2025:
- Qualifiers: Canada d. Romania 3-0
- Qualifiers: Japan d. Canada 2-1
- Qualifiers Analysis: Team Canada Holds Heads High Despite Billie Jean King Cup Loss
- Play-Offs: Canada d. Denmark 2-1
- Play-Offs: Canada d. Mexico 2-0
- Play-Offs Analysis: Team Effort Sees Canada Through to Billie Jean King Cup Qualifiers
- Full Coverage of the 2025 Billie Jean King Cup Play-Offs in Monterrey
Davis Cup
For the first time since the re-structuring of the Davis Cup format in 2019, Canada failed to reach the Finals in November, losing their opening qualifying tie to Hungary 3-2 on home soil in Montreal despite a heroic comeback effort on the second day of the tie. Team Canada will have another shot in 2026, though, as they dominated their World Group I tie, easily defeating Israel 4-0 with the loss of just a single set.
Similar to the Billie Jean King Cup team, there was a changing of the guard on the Davis Cup squad in 2025. Longtime stalwart Vasek Pospisil participated in his final tie during February’s qualifier, securing his 33rd match win for Canada in his 35th tie, both second all-time behind Daniel Nestor for a Canadian in the competition.
Two Canucks made their Davis Cup debuts this year. Liam Draxl, who was nominated for the first time in 2024 but did not play, got to compete in his first match for Canada, taking the torch from Pospisil as their doubles win together in Montreal was the veteran’s last. Draxl also picked up a singles and doubles win in the World Group I tie.
Cleeve Harper made his debut in September, clinching the tie in doubles with Draxl before scoring his first singles win in the dead rubber.
Canada will host Brazil in February in the 2026 Davis Cup Qualifiers 1st Round.
Click the links below to read the coverage of Canada’s Davis Cup Team in 2025:
- Qualifiers: Hungary Leads 2-0 After Day 1
- Qualifiers: Hungary d. Canada 3-2
- Qualifiers Analysis: Canada Gave It Everything at Davis Cup, Now a Tough Road Begins
- Full coverage of the 2025 Qualifiers 1st Round in Montreal
- World Group I: Canada Leads 2-0 After Day 1
- World Group I: Canada d. Israel 4-0
Juniors (Davis Cup Juniors, Billie Jean King Cup Juniors, U14 World Junior Tennis)
For the first time since 2019, Canada’s juniors got to represent their country on home soil in 2025. IGA Stadium in Montreal hosted the North and Central America and Caribbean qualifying round of the Davis Cup Juniors (U16), Billie Jean King Cup Juniors (U14), and ITF World Junior Tennis (U14, boys and girls), with the Canadians participating in all four draws.
The homecoming was a great success, with Team Canada qualifying for the Finals in all four divisions. Of particular note was the Billie Jean King Cup Juniors team, who finished first in their group thanks to a massive upset win over the heavily-favoured United States, who would go on to win the title in November’s Finals. The other three Canadian teams all finished second in their groups behind the Americans.
In August at the U14 World Junior Tennis finals in Projestov, Czechia, the Canadian girls made history, delivering the nation’s best-ever result at the event. They swept their round-robin group without losing a match and then beat China and the Republic of Korea to reach the final, the farthest a Canadian team had ever gone at the event. They finished with a silver medal after a tight 2-1 loss to the United States.
The U14 boys finished third in their group in the finals, just missing out on the medal rounds. However, they dominated the 9th-to-16th playoff, winning all three of their ties to finish ninth.
At the Davis Cup Juniors and Billie Jean King Cup Juniors Finals in Santiago, Chile, in November, neither Canadian team made it out of the group stage. The girls finished in 12th place while the boys finished 13th.
Click the links below to read the coverage of Canada’s junior teams in 2025:
- Americas Zone Qualifiers: Day 1 Results
- Americas Zone Qualifiers: Day 2 Results
- Americas Zone Qualifiers: All Four Canadian Teams Qualify
- U14 World Junior Tennis Finals: Canada’s Girls Claim Silver
- Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup Juniors Finals: Canadian Teams Out in Group Stage
Masters World Championships
While Team Canada did not claim a gold medal like they did in 2024 at the ITF Masters Tour World Championships, plenty of hardware was secured by Canadians.
Photo : OTA
Many of the best results came in the final batch of the world championships in October, when all the 75+ competitions took place in Bol, Croatia. In the team event, Canada’s 75+ men’s team, composed of Chris Burr, Tim Griffin, and John Payne, won the bronze medal. Burr and Griffin added a silver in the 75+ men’s doubles in the individual championships.
In the 85+ men’s doubles, the Canadian duo of Raynald D’Aoust and Horst Dammholz snagged a bronze medal.
Earlier in the year, Canada had secured another two bronze medals in the 60-70+ events. Erin Boynton claimed bronze in the women’s 65+ doubles with an American partner, while Keith Porter secured bronze in the 70+ men’s doubles with a Brit.
Feature Photo : Sarah-Jade Champagne
