British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

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. Went on to be part of the World Cup winning team later in the month, winning the deciding doubles with Gordon against Japan 

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 reached two Portugal W50 SFs, and in the later 2 wewks won QR1 in each of two WTA 125s, to rise from WR 459 to live ranked 372 ( and GB #12). In the course of reaching the 2 SFs 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.

10. GB Men's Wheelchair Team - winning the World Cup and becoming World Champions in Florida, the team of Gordon Reid, Alfie Hewett and Ben Bartram beat Korea, Netherlands and Japan to regain the title. 

11. Ben Bartram - what a month for British wheelchair tennis as Ben takes his biggest title of his career, winning the WC250 Sardinian Open. Seeded 4, he overcame the top seeded American, Ratzlaff, in the final. Also part of the GB World Cup winning team, winning a rubber in the QF defeat of Korea. 

12. Clarice Ouvarova - the 15 yo won all 8 singles and doubles J30 events she competed in in Honduras and Nicaragua in September. The 4 doubles titles were with Sofia Mills (USA) who Clarice also beat in 3 of these singles finals. Alhough some smallish / very snall fields she still won 44 out of 45 sets during the month, the last 34 consecutively. In September she has won as many titles as any other GB senior or junior player has won in the whole year to date ( Alicia Dudeney and Finn Murgett have each won 8 ).