Team: Men
Birthdate: April 7, 2000
Hometown: Rutherfordton, N.C.
Year started with wheelchair tennis: 2010
Number of World Team Cups: 6 (Juniors: 2014-17; Men: 2018-2019)
Conner Stroud will be making his second consecutive appearance on the men's World Team Cup after competing for the first time in 2018 at the event in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. He is a three-time junior World Team Cup champion, helping Team USA take home consecutive titles from 2015-17.
Stroud, 19, first picked up a racquet at age 5, playing able-bodied tennis at a local tennis club his parents owned. He transitioned to wheelchair tennis at the age of 13 after trying the sport at a local clinic and quickly became one of the top junior wheelchair players in the country. By age 14, he was representing the U.S. on the junior World Team Cup team.
Stroud has been among the top wheelchair players in the U.S. and the world in both the junior and men's divisions. In juniors, he was the year-end No. 1 wheelchair player in the U.S. in both 2016 and 2017 and reached a career-high world ranking of No. 2 in January 2018. In men's play, he has been in the Top 5 of the U.S rankings for the last three years and reached a career-high ITF ranking of No. 52 last November.
He is currently ranked No. 59 in the world.