British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

indiana wrote:

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Nominating Victoria :

1. Rhys Lawlor (2009) - winning the singles title at the J100 in Greece. He's our #2 best player for the age (after Ceban) and this is his first title in 2025, and his best win ever

2 Mark Ceban (2009) - winning the singles AND the doubles title at the J200 in Spain. This equals his best wins ever, and will give him a big booster in ITF points

3 Mika Stojsavljevic - the 16 yo reached a Tunisia W35 singles final plus won the doubles title. Then won the Birmingham W35 singles title, with some fight backs before 6-4 6-0 in the final, beating 4 seeds on the way, WRs 366, 356 (Mimi), 289 (Marni) and 376. Moves her up to a big singles CH, live ranked 463, and FWIW to world #2 under 17 yo.

4. Gordon Reid - won his biggest singles title in 7 years, at the series 1 tournament in Mallorca at the Rafa Nadal Academy, beating Gustavo Fernandez in the final. His previous title this year was at Series 2 level and his last Series 1 title was the Korean Open in 2018

5. April Sackflame - age 13.5 (born 2012), winning the J60 singles title a Loughborough, in her first ITF event. A graceful player, with a lot of natural skills, and one to watch; followed by being runner up in the TE under 14 Yellow Bowl in Gran Canaria, seeded 7.

6. Brooke Black - winning the W35 doubles title in Week 41 in Darwin (her first professional title) at the age of 17. She also reached the final in Week 40

7. Ryan Peniston - winning the latest challenger in the Greek islands, his first in 2 years, beating the top seed in the final and entering the top 200 again as a result. Welcome back, Ryan

8. Jan Choinski - wins his second 125 title in just a few weeks, second of his career, in Valencia, rising very close to his career high ranking and up to GB number 5 in the process

9. Harry Wendelken - wins his first Challenger level title as a lucky loser at the Hersonissos Challenger in Greece. The victory has catapulted Harry up 105 places in the ATP rankings to a new career-high world No.341.

10. Lui Maxted - unseeded, wins the Tunisia M25 title, beating 3 seeds along the way including (5) WR 462 in the final. In the same week was RU in the doubles, having won the doubles title the previous week ( both with Connor Thomson ). Takes his CHs at 29/09 of singies 806 and doubles 600 to live ranked 608 and 462 respectively for 27/10.

11. Victoria Allen - seeded 7th, won the Quebec City, Canada W35 without dropping a set, beating the 5th seed in the final. Moving on in Canada to the Saguenay W75, lost in R2 but only just missed out on a CH win against the 3rd seeded WR 247 ( had a total of 4 MPs in a final set TB ).Taken together, thrashed her CH 613 in moving up to live 467.

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 A really different and interesting list so far. None of them are yet to have featured in the top 2 in a previous 2025 PoM vote and therefore none of them are (yet) in the PoS field ( putting aside Gordon in his pairing with Alfie). Good and fresh list. 

Brooke out ( after another good looking performance in losing to the 2nd seed in her singles QF ).

Mika is though into the Wrexham singles SF. My plan re Mika's entry is on Monday to edit down her existing spiel a bit, add in her Wrexham details, and update her rankings info.

Big matches in the context of October PoM today for JoMo, George, Katie, Mika, Mimi, Lily, Anton, James, Henry, Julian and Lloyd. And probably others. Will any of them catch a board members eye and get on our list in week 4 of 5 for the October PoM vote in just over a weeks time?

indiana wrote:

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Nominating Victoria :

1. Rhys Lawlor (2009) - winning the singles title at the J100 in Greece. He's our #2 best player for the age (after Ceban) and this is his first title in 2025, and his best win ever

2 Mark Ceban (2009) - winning the singles AND the doubles title at the J200 in Spain. This equals his best wins ever, and will give him a big booster in ITF points

3 Mika Stojsavljevic - the 16 yo reached a Tunisia W35 singles final plus won the doubles title. Then won the Birmingham W35 singles title, with some fight backs before 6-4 6-0 in the final, beating 4 seeds on the way, WRs 366, 356 (Mimi), 289 (Marni) and 376. Moves her up to a big singles CH, live ranked 463, and FWIW to world #2 under 17 yo.

4. Gordon Reid - won his biggest singles title in 7 years, at the series 1 tournament in Mallorca at the Rafa Nadal Academy, beating Gustavo Fernandez in the final. His previous title this year was at Series 2 level and his last Series 1 title was the Korean Open in 2018

5. April Sackflame - age 13.5 (born 2012), winning the J60 singles title a Loughborough, in her first ITF event. A graceful player, with a lot of natural skills, and one to watch; followed by being runner up in the TE under 14 Yellow Bowl in Gran Canaria, seeded 7.

6. Brooke Black - winning the W35 doubles title in Week 41 in Darwin (her first professional title) at the age of 17. She also reached the final in Week 40

7. Ryan Peniston - winning the latest challenger in the Greek islands, his first in 2 years, beating the top seed in the final and entering the top 200 again as a result. Welcome back, Ryan

8. Jan Choinski - wins his second 125 title in just a few weeks, second of his career, in Valencia, rising very close to his career high ranking and up to GB number 5 in the process

9. Harry Wendelken - wins his first Challenger level title as a lucky loser at the Hersonissos Challenger in Greece. The victory has catapulted Harry up 105 places in the ATP rankings to a new career-high world No.341.

10. Lui Maxted - unseeded, wins the Tunisia M25 title, beating 3 seeds along the way including (5) WR 462 in the final. In the same week was RU in the doubles, having won the doubles title the previous week ( both with Connor Thomson ). Takes his CHs at 29/09 of singies 806 and doubles 600 to live ranked 608 and 462 respectively for 27/10.

11. Victoria Allen - seeded 7th, won the Quebec City, Canada W35 without dropping a set, beating the 5th seed in the final. Moving on in Canada to the Saguenay W75, lost in R2 but only just missed out on a CH win against the 3rd seeded WR 247 ( had a total of 4 MPs in a final set TB ).Taken together, thrashed her CH 613 in moving up to live 467.

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 Im very tempted to nominate Julian and Lloyd - its very easy to dismiss their winning a 500 event but we should respect them for the season they are having. Nonetheless, with a 1000 next week, Ill for one hold back and see how that goes and how the other Brits also do in Paris. 

Nominating MIMI :


1. Rhys Lawlor (2009) - winning the singles title at the J100 in Greece. He's our #2 best player for the age (after Ceban) and this is his first title in 2025, and his best win ever

2 Mark Ceban (2009) - winning the singles AND the doubles title at the J200 in Spain. This equals his best wins ever, and will give him a big booster in ITF points

3 Mika Stojsavljevic - the 16 yo reached a Tunisia W35 singles final plus won the doubles title. Then won the Birmingham W35 singles title, with some fight backs before 6-4 6-0 in the final, beating 4 seeds on the way, WRs 366, 356 (Mimi), 289 (Marni) and 376. Moves her up to a big singles CH, live ranked 463, and FWIW to world #2 under 17 yo.

4. Gordon Reid - won his biggest singles title in 7 years, at the series 1 tournament in Mallorca at the Rafa Nadal Academy, beating Gustavo Fernandez in the final. His previous title this year was at Series 2 level and his last Series 1 title was the Korean Open in 2018

5. April Sackflame - age 13.5 (born 2012), winning the J60 singles title a Loughborough, in her first ITF event. A graceful player, with a lot of natural skills, and one to watch; followed by being runner up in the TE under 14 Yellow Bowl in Gran Canaria, seeded 7.

6. Brooke Black - winning the W35 doubles title in Week 41 in Darwin (her first professional title) at the age of 17. She also reached the final in Week 40

7. Ryan Peniston - winning the latest challenger in the Greek islands, his first in 2 years, beating the top seed in the final and entering the top 200 again as a result. Welcome back, Ryan

8. Jan Choinski - wins his second 125 title in just a few weeks, second of his career, in Valencia, rising very close to his career high ranking and up to GB number 5 in the process

9. Harry Wendelken - wins his first Challenger level title as a lucky loser at the Hersonissos Challenger in Greece. The victory has catapulted Harry up 105 places in the ATP rankings to a new career-high world No.341.

10. Lui Maxted - unseeded, wins the Tunisia M25 title, beating 3 seeds along the way including (5) WR 462 in the final. In the same week was RU in the doubles, having won the doubles title the previous week ( both with Connor Thomson ). Takes his CHs at 29/09 of singies 806 and doubles 600 to live ranked 608 and 462 respectively for 27/10.

11. Victoria Allen - seeded 7th, won the Quebec City, Canada W35 without dropping a set, beating the 5th seed in the final. Moving on in Canada to the Saguenay W75, lost in R2 but only just missed out on a CH win against the 3rd seeded WR 247 ( had a total of 4 MPs in a final set TB ).Taken together, thrashed her CH 613 in moving up to live 467.

12. Mimi Xu - Unseeded, won the W100 Wrexham tournament, beating the number 3 and 6 seeds on the way. In the same tournament lifts the doubles championship with Ella McDonald. Prior to this was runner up in the w35 Birmingham tournament and lifted the doubles title once again with Ella. Now breaking into the top 300 (NCH) in singles and doubles, she is settling in very well to her senior pro career. The combination of singles and doubles success in one tournament is commendable and confirms her physical strength as well as her adaptable and varied game. In WTA rankings stands around 11 in the under 19s and 4 in the doubles. Well done Mimi.