Team: Women
Birthdate: Aug. 12, 1994
Hometown: Honolulu, Hawaii
Year started with wheelchair tennis: 2010
Number of World Team Cups: 7 (Juniors: 2011; Women: 2012-14, 2016, 2018-19)
Shelby Baron will be making her seventh World Team Cup appearance in Tel Aviv. She also represented Team USA at the prestigious event in 2011 (juniors), 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2018.
Baron, from Honolulu, Hawaii, first played wheelchair tennis in 2010 and, just a year later, reached a career-high ITF girls' wheelchair ranking of No. 4 in the world.
She was a member of the 2016 U.S. Paralympic team that competed in Rio and advanced further than any other American woman at the event, reaching the singles Round of 16 and the doubles quarterfinals. Other career highlights for the 24-year-old include leading the University of Alabama wheelchair tennis team to three Wheelchair Tennis Collegiate National Championship titles and achieving a career-high ITF women's world ranking of No. 24 in singles and No. 20 in doubles, both in 2017.
Baron was named the PTR Wheelchair Professional of the Year in January 2019, joining famed wheelchair pros David Hall, Randy Snow, Rich Berman, Geoff Norton, Dan James, Paul Walker and others, who have received the honor.
She earned her bachelor's degree in communicative disorders from the University of Alabama, where she is currently studying speech pathology in grad school and is a member of the wheelchair tennis team.