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.