British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

Jan wrote:

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JonH wrote:

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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. Great week and sets himself up for the USO very well!

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!

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