CBT — Confederação Brasileira de Tênis

What it is

The Confederação Brasileira de Tênis was founded on 19 November 1955 in Rio de Janeiro by eleven state federations, and has been based in Florianópolis since it moved from Rio. It now has 27 affiliated state federations — one for every state plus the Federal District — and is responsible for the national teams in the Davis Cup, the Billie Jean King Cup and the world beach tennis and wheelchair tennis championships.^[1]

Alexandre Farias, a lawyer from Santa Catarina, was elected by acclamation on a single slate in November 2024 and took office on 6 March 2025 for a term running to 2029. Because the confederation receives public money, its accounts, governance documents and results sit on the Brazilian Olympic Committee's transparency portal.^[2] [3]

Registration, ranking and selection

Registration is compulsory and is the credential that matters. Under the professional regulation a player must be registered with the confederation, hold a valid taxpayer number, be current with the annual national fee, be in good standing with their state federation — and, for national events, be bound exclusively to Brazil before the international federation and the South American confederation. The player receives a registration number and login. Registered players who have not paid the annual fee may still enter events but score no national ranking points.^[4]

The confederation maintains several national rankings — a professional ranking built from ATP, WTA, ITF and domestic points, and a separate amateur ranking published weekly.^[4]

Selection. For junior national teams the criteria are published and largely numeric: two or three places by position on the corresponding age-group ranking, using the ranking in force 30 days before the international entry deadline, plus one or two places by technical assessment. For the senior teams there is no numeric rule. The published criteria say only that members "will be chosen by technical nomination, taking into account the ATP, ITF, WTA and CBT rankings." In practice the captain and the technical commission propose and the confederation announces — so the document that records a selection is the confederation's own published call-up naming the captain who made it.^[5]

The criteria also reserve the right to decline to call up or endorse a player for indiscipline, for a previous refusal of an official call-up, or for insufficient technical level.^[5]