# Ryan Peniston

Ryan Harold Peniston (born 10 November 1995) is a British tennis player from Essex. 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.

## Personal life

Ryan Harold Peniston was born in November 1995 to English-Irish father Paul and Malaysian mother Penny (née Gok) and grew up in Great Wakering near Rochford. He has two older brothers, Sam and Harry.
As a child, Peniston survived rhabdomyosarcoma, a soft tissue cancer, and had 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. Peniston was a member of the local Great Wakering Colts. At 13, he moved to Nice, France to train at ISP Academy before going to college at 18.
A graduate of the University of Memphis tennis program, he was part of the GB University Team that won the nation's first ever team gold medal at Master'U Championships.

## 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.

### 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.
He was given a wildcard into the singles and doubles main draws of the 2021 Nottingham Open. 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. 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 Major & top-5 wins & quarterfinal, top 125

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. He reached the quarterfinals in his first ever ATP tour level tournament for the first time defeating another top-50 player Francisco Cerúndolo. 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. Next he defeated Pedro Martínez before losing to compatriot Jack Draper in the quarterfinals.
Peniston then defeated Henri Laaksonen in straight-sets in the first round of Wimbledon.He lost in the second round to experienced American Steve Johnson.
Peniston was seeded for the qualifying for the 2022 US Open where he lost to the Italian Matteo Arnaldi.

### 2023: Wimbledon Centre Court match with Andy Murray

Peniston entered qualifying for the Australian Open where he lost out to Canadian Alexis Galarneau. In the qualifying for the French Open, Peniston overcame Altuğ Çelikbilek before going down in a final set against experienced Moldovan Radu Albot.
Ranked No. 201, he received a wildcard for the Queen's Club Championships and defeated Ugo Humbert in the first round, before losing his next match to second seed Holger Rune. Given a wildcard entry into Wimbledon, Peniston lost to Andy Murray in the first round in a match played on Centre Court.
In August, he won the Winnipeg National Bank Challenger, defeating Leandro Riedi in the final.

## Singles performance timeline

Key :
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |
Current through the 2023 Eastbourne International.
| Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | SR | W–L |
| Grand Slam tournaments ||||||||
| Australian Open | A | A | A | A | Q1 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| French Open | A | A | A | Q1 | Q2 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Wimbledon | Q1 | NH | Q1 | 2R | 1R | 0 / 2 | 1–2 |
| US Open | A | A | A | Q1 | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0 / 2 | 1–2 |
| Career statistics ||||||||
| Tournaments | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 6 |
| Overall win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 5–4 | 1–2 | 6–6 | 6–6 |
| Year-end ranking | 389 | 378 | 268 | 167 | | | |

## ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
### Singles: 15 (7–8)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger (1–3)
* ITF Futures (6–5)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (7–4)
* Clay (0–3)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–1)
| 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 |
| Win | 5–8 | Aug 2023 | Winnipeg, Canada | Challenger | Hard | Leandro Riedi | 6–4, 4–6, 6–4 |
| Win | 6–8 | Oct 2024 | M25 Heraklion | Futures | Hard | Louis Dussin | 6-4, 6–1, 3–6 |
| Win | 7–8 | Nov 2024 | M25 Monastir | Futures | Hard | Federico Iannaccone | 6-0, 6–1 |

### Doubles: 5 (1–4)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger (0–0)
* ITF Futures (1–4)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (1–3)
* Clay (0–1)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
| 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 record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.
| Season | 2022 | Total |
| Wins | 1 | 1 |
| # | 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 |