Ryan Peniston (born 10 November 1995) is a British tennis player from Essex.[1] He has a career-high singles ranking of world no. 123, achieved in July 2022, and a doubles ranking of world no. 384 achieved in June 2022.

Ryan Peniston

Full name	Ryan Peniston
Country (sports)	Great Britain
Residence	Great Wakering, United Kingdom
Born	(1995-11-10) 10 November 1995 (age 26) Southend, United Kingdom
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	2018
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
College	University of Memphis
Coach	Paul Peniston
Prize money	$347,387
Singles
Career record	5–4
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 123 (18 July 2022)
Current ranking	No. 123 (18 July 2022)
Grand Slam singles results
French Open	Q1 (2022)
Wimbledon	2R (2022)
US Open	Q1 (2022)
Doubles
Career record	1–3
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 384 (13 June 2022)
Current ranking	No. 518 (18 July 2022)
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon	1R (2021, 2022)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon	1R (2021)
Last updated on: 18 July 2022.

Personal life

Ryan Harold Peniston was born in November 1995 to Paul and Penny (née Gok). He has two older brothers, Sam and Harry.

As a child Peniston survived rhabdomyosarcoma, a soft tissue cancer, and had to have surgery to remove a tumour and chemotherapy. Cancer slowed his growth, and he was much smaller than his classmates until he was 16 years old.[2] At 13, he moved to Nice, France to train at ISP Academy before going to college at 18.[3]

A graduate of the University of Memphis tennis program,[4] he was part of the GB University Team that won the nation's first ever team gold medal at Master’U Championships.[5][6]

Professional career

2020: Battle of the Brits

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Peniston took part in the 'Battle of the Brits' tournament and performed well, losing only on final set tie-breaks against top-50 players Dan Evans and Cameron Norrie.[7]

2021: ATP doubles debut

Peniston won the Heraklion leg of the 2021 ITF Men's World Tennis Tour (April–June) on 30 May 2021, conceding only three games to Yuta Shimizu in winning the final in straight sets and only dropping one set in the whole tournament.[8][9]

He was given a wildcard into the singles and doubles main draws of the 2021 Nottingham Open.[10] He then received a wildcard for the 2021 Queen's Club Championships doubles main draw, playing alongside Liam Broady, and the qualifying draw in the singles.[11][12] In the doubles first round, Peniston and Broady defeated Alexander Bublik and Nicholas Monroe in straight sets. In the singles qualifying, Peniston defeated Marc-Andrea Hüsler before losing to Aleksandar Vukic in 3 sets.

2022: ATP debut, first top-5 win & quarterfinal, top 150 debut and progressing to the 2nd round of Wimbledon

Peniston made his ATP main draw singles debut at the Queen's Club Championships as a wildcard, where he upset top seed and world no. 5 Casper Ruud in straight sets for his first ever ATP Win.[13] He reached the quarterfinals in his first ever ATP tour level tournament for the first time defeating another top-50 player Francisco Cerundolo.[14][15] As a result he made his debut in the top 150 in the singles rankings.

At the 2022 Eastbourne International he reached the second round as a wildcard defeating 8th seed Holger Rune.[16] Next he defeated Pedro Martinez before losing to compatriot Jack Draper in the quarterfinals.

Penniston then defeated Henri Laaksonen in straight-sets in the first round of Wimbledon.

Singles performance timeline

Current through the 2022 Eastbourne International.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 12 (4–8)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Dec 2018	USA F35, Tallahassee	Futures	Hard	Maxime Cressy	4–6, 6–7(4–7)
Win	1–1	May 2019	M15 Cancún	Futures	Hard	Austin Rapp	6–4, 6–4
Win	2–1	May 2019	M15 Cancún	Futures	Hard	Tomás Martín Etcheverry	6–4, 7–5
Loss	2–2	Jul 2019	M25 Dublin	Futures	Carpet	Igor Sijsling	4–6, 6–7(8–10)
Loss	2–3	Aug 2019	M15 Hua Hin	Futures	Hard	Hsu Yu-hsiou	3–6, 3–6
Loss	2–4	Dec 2019	M25 Fort Worth	Futures	Hard	Jesper de Jong	2–6, 0–6
Win	3–4	May 2021	M15 Heraklion	Futures	Hard	Yuta Shimizu	6–3, 6–0
Win	4–4	May 2021	M15 Heraklion	Futures	Hard	Zhang Ze	6–4, 6–1
Loss	4–5	Aug 2021	Prague, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Franco Agamenone	3–6, 1–6
Loss	4–6	Dec 2021	Antalya, Turkey	Challenger	Clay	Nuno Borges	4–6, 3–6
Loss	4–7	Jan 2022	M25 Loughborough	Futures	Hard	Antoine Escoffier	4–6, 6–3, 3–6
Loss	4–8	May 2022	Ostrava, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Evan Furness	6–4, 6–7(6–8), 1–6

Doubles: 5 (1–4)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2017	Great Britain F6, Barnstaple	Futures	Hard	Robert Carter	Peter Bothwell Neil Pauffley	4–6, 7–6(7–5), [6–10]
Win	1–1	Dec 2017	Qatar F4, Doha	Futures	Hard	Andrew Watson	Richard Gabb Luke Johnson	6–3, 7–6(7–4)
Loss	1–2	Aug 2018	Spain F24, Santander	Futures	Clay	Andrew Watson	Ivan Gakhov Jaume Pla Malfeito	4–6, 4–6
Loss	1–3	Mar 2019	M25 Calabasas	Futures	Hard	Jack Findel-Hawkins	Boris Arias Sekou Bangoura	2–6, 2–6
Loss	1–4	Dec 2019	M15 Tallahassee	Futures	Hard	Jack Findel-Hawkins	Strong Kirchheimer Dennis Novikov	5–7, 3–6

Record against top 10 players

Wins over top 10 players

• He has a 1–0 (100%) record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score	RPR
2022
1.	Casper Ruud	5	Queen's Club, United Kingdom	Grass	1R	7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–2)	180

References

External links

• Ryan Peniston at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Ryan Peniston at the International Tennis Federation
• Lawn Tennis Association profile

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