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JonH · Tennis legend

British Tennis Forum September 2026 Player of the Month Nominations and Highlights thread

indiana · Tennis legend

Re Rhys, I have added his US Open doubles SF with Mark Ceban.

Brendan F · Strong Club Player

I'm busy for the next few weeks so I don't have time to do it myself, but I'd like to nominate Max Basing for his Challenger win so if someone could do the honours please.

indiana · Tennis legend

Nominations:

1. Daniella Britton - winning the J300 US Open warm up event in Canada. Seeded 6th, with some battling wins. Represents her biggest world ranking title to date and should see her rise to comfortably inside the top 30 and top British girl in the rankings.

2. Rhys Lawlor - seeded 15th, reached the final of the J300 in Canada where he lost narrowly in the final. Also won the doubles title here in tandem with Mark Ceban. And then again with Mark he reached the US Open doubles SF.

3. Hannah Klugman - the 17 yo's first ITF senior title is a good one - Portugal W50 singles title, beating Linda Fruhvirtova ( WR 174, CH 49 ) in the final with positive play after earlier beating two top 300 players and a top 400 player. Takes her up to a new CH ( provisionally live ranked 342 ), GB #10, and is #7 ranked under 18 in the world.

4 . Neal Skupski- winning the US Open mens doubles final as the last surviving Brit . Achieved his 5th slam and Along with Christian Harrison his second this year . Fine win over top seeded Henry and partner in the semis and straight sets in the final meant no sets dropped in the tournament.. Talk about dedication to doubles he has now played over 550 matches in his career and still going strong . Now Neal needs a French Open to have won them all.

5. Matthew Knoesen - won singles and doubles in the boys wheelchair event at the US Open, cementing his world number one status.

6. Alfie Hewett - for winning the singles and doubles in the US Open wheelchair event! The singles title is his fifth USO title, 11th singles grand slam title overall and he beat world number one , Oda, in the final. The doubles, with Gordon Reid, was their first USO title in doubles since 2021

7. Sofia Johnson - the 22 yo fresh from college entered 2026 with no WTA ranking. Just 9 months later, in the first 2 weeks of September she has reached two Portugal W50 SFs, to rise from WR 459 to WR 375 ( and GB #11 ). in the course of this she beat 4 top 300 players ( WRs 162, 191, 215, and 230 ), so trebling such career wins from 2 to 6. Very encouraging for the future.

8. Imogen Haddad - winning the WTT15 title in Monastir from qualifying. Eight wins in the week after coming through three rounds of qualifying unseeded and then 5 main draw wins, including the 8, 1, 5 and 3 seeds ranked 934,251,651 and 521. Prior to this week her highest ranked opponent victory was in the high 800s. The title gives her her first WTA ranking of around 1075.

9. Max Basing - as 7th seed won the Istanbul 75 Challenger, his first Challenger title, without dropping a set, beating (2) Butvalas WR 195 in the QF for his 3rd top 200 win. Saw him rise to a CH 219 (GB #11). With just 53 ranking points due off during the rest of this year, he doesn't look to have to add too much more to make Australian Open qualifying.

Brendan F · Strong Club Player

indiana wrote:
Nominations:
1. Daniella Britton - winning the J300 US Open warm up event in Canada. Seeded 6th, with some battling wins. Represents her biggest world ranking title to date and should see her rise to comfortably inside the top 30 and top British girl in the rankings.

2. Rhys Lawlor - seeded 15th, reached the final of the J300 in Canada where he lost narrowly in the final. Also won the doubles title here in tandem with Mark Ceban. And then again with Mark he reached the US Open doubles SF.
3. Hannah Klugman - the 17 yo's first ITF senior title is a good one - Portugal W50 singles title, beating Linda Fruhvirtova ( WR 174, CH 49 ) in the final with positive play after earlier beating two top 300 players and a top 400 player. Takes her up to a new CH ( provisionally live ranked 342 ), GB #10, and is #7 ranked under 18 in the world.
4 . Neal Skupski- winning the US Open mens doubles final as the last surviving Brit . Achieved his 5th slam and Along with Christian Harrison his second this year . Fine win over top seeded Henry and partner in the semis and straight sets in the final meant no sets dropped in the tournament.. Talk about dedication to doubles he has now played over 550 matches in his career and still going strong . Now Neal needs a French Open to have won them all.
5. Matthew Knoesen - won singles and doubles in the boys wheelchair event at the US Open, cementing his world number one status.
6. Alfie Hewett - for winning the singles and doubles in the US Open wheelchair event! The singles title is his fifth USO title, 11th singles grand slam title overall and he beat world number one , Oda, in the final. The doubles, with Gordon Reid, was their first USO title in doubles since 2021
7. Sofia Johnson - the 22 yo fresh from college entered 2026 with no WTA ranking. Just 9 months later, in the first 2 weeks of September she has reached two Portugal W50 SFs, to rise from WR 459 to WR 375 ( and GB #11 ). in the course of this she beat 4 top 300 players ( WRs 162, 191, 215, and 230 ), so trebling such career wins from 2 to 6. Very encouraging for the future.
8. Imogen Haddad - winning the WTT15 title in Monastir from qualifying. Eight wins in the week after coming through three rounds of qualifying unseeded and then 5 main draw wins, including the 8, 1, 5 and 3 seeds ranked 934,251,651 and 521. Prior to this week her highest ranked opponent victory was in the high 800s. The title gives her her first WTA ranking of around 1075.
9. Max Basing - as 7th seed won the Istanbul 75 Challenger, his first Challenger title, without dropping a set, beating (2) Butvalas WR 195 in the QF for his 3rd top 200 win. Saw him rise to a CH 219 (GB #11). With just 53 ranking points due off during the rest of this year, he doesn't look to have to add too much more to make Australian Open qualifying.

Great stuff, thanks Indy