British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

Nominations list

1. GB Boys Wheelchair Team - winning the Junior World Team Cup, won all their matches without losing a set in 13 rubbers played, losing just 46 games in those 13 matches. Well done Matt Knoesen and Will Barton - imperious.

2. Giles Hussey - winning his first challenger title, a CH50 in Centurion, South Africa, and as a resut has risen to a new CH 258.

3. Matthew Knoesen - for winning the French Open junior wheelchair singles and doubles titles, beating top seeded Lantermann in the final and adding to the World Team Cup win from the previous week

4. Alfie Hewett & Gordon Reid - winning the French wheelchair mens doubles title, taking their first slam in 12 months and clearly showing they are the best pair in the game once more.

5. Henry Patten - French Open doubles RU with Harri H. Only the 2nd time since 1936 that there has been British representation in the RG final, the first being last year with Joe & Neal. Henry ( & Harri ) go to joint doubles WR 1 for the first time, from a previous best of joint WR 3. Followed this by being RU at Queen's.

6. Allegra Korpanec Davies - follows up a QF at W15 Szentende with achieving a final at W15 Banja Luca for 10pts which has helped take her CH848 up to 749.

7. Freya Christie & Eden Silva - won the Caserta W75 and Ilkley WTA 125 titles in successive weeks ( their 3rd and 4th titles in the last 2 months following a W35 and a W50 ). Since the start of the month Freya is up from WR 213 to WR 148, and Eden up from WR 212 to WR 157.

8. Olivia Nicholls - won the Queens WTA500 with Tereza Mihalikova on the second anniversary of the partnership. Their biggest title to date (pipping last year's W500 Berlin title just because this one was on home soil !). Liv is close to her CH of 21 although her ranking will fluctuate over the next few weeks.

9. Katie Boulter - beating world number 2 and top seed, Elena Rybakina, having earlier beaten 8th seed Leylah Fernandez, Katie reached the semis at the WTA 500 in London. Beating Rybakina was her career best single win by ranking

10. Emma Raducanu - sailed through to the Queen's final without dropping a set, including wins over in form seeds Cirstea and Jovic. Ran out of gas a little in the final but probably her best tennis since winning the US Open. Was enough to get her seeded for Wimbledon, but unfortunately she had to withdraw due to a stress fracture in her right leg.

11. Henry Searle - in his first grass event of the season, Henry won his first challenger title in Dublin, beating 4 top 200 players in the process and bagging a circa 80 plus place ranking rise as he goes into Wimbledon qualies unbeaten on grass. Thats impressive.

12. Harriet Dart & Maia Lumsden - won the WTA Nottingham 250 title together, a first at that level for each, over several 125s. Beat the top seeds CR 66 in the QF and the second seeds CR 72 in the final. Took them up to WR 62 for Maia and WR 86 for Harriet.

13. Jan Choinski- for reaching the ATP mens singles top 100! Congrats to Jan, its been a long haul but he can now forever say he reached the top 100!

14.Toby Samuel, for getting to the SF at Eastbourne.

15. Billy Harris - A slow burn through the grass season culminating in a fine set of matches at Wimbleodn qualifying to give a metaphorical single finger salute to TPTB after being overlooked by the committee. Billy, as much as I appreciated being able to watch you at the qualifying competition, next season stay off the clay until the actual French Open and just focus on gaining points on your better surfaces. Thank you.

16. Max Basing - After getting a bit of luck and entering the qualifying draw as a WC playoff LL, Max proceeded to beat the No.10 seed in the 1st round and then keep winning to enter the MD. If it had been BO3, he'd be out so all hail FQR BO5. (I know there's a few on here that don't like the BO5 in qulaifying but I personally think that it's a great idea, that was Max's 1st BO5, may he have many more).

17. Oliver Tarvet - for qualifying for the Wimbledon mens singles draw for the second year running, defeating Bolt (151), Galarneau (184) and Sakellaridis (146). He also qualified without losing a set!

18. Anna McBride - for winning both the singles and doubles titles at the inaugural Lexus Nottingham tennis tournament for players with learning disabilities. Anna, just 22 combines her tennis career while studying sports and exercise at Stirling University. She has a trophy cupboard which includes 4 consecutive titles at the Australian Open ID championships amongst others. So another two to add to the collection this month. Only 22 years old. Pride of Scotland.

18. Emily Webley Smith - approaching her 42nd birthday, during the month had doubles wins in W75, WTA125, W100 and lastly WTA 500 ( over the CR 59 # 4 seeds ) with 4 different partners. Overall rose 32 places to WR 147, her best ranking since 2020, indeed not far from being her best since 2016

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 29th of June 2026 10:03:41 AM