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 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.

2023–2025: Wimbledon Centre Court match with Andy Murray, two Challenger titles Peniston entered qualifying for the 2023 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 Radu Albot.

Ranked No. 201, he received a wildcard for the 2023 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 the 2023 Wimbledon Championships, Peniston lost to Andy Murray in the first round in a match played on Centre Court.

In August 2023, he won his first ATP Challenger in the Winnipeg, defeating Leandro Riedi in the final.

Peniston won his second Challenger title in Crete in October 2025, overcoming Kimmer Coppejans in the final.

Performance timeline

Singles

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 20 (9–11) LegendATP Challenger (1–3)ITF Futures (8–8)Finals by surfaceHard (9–7)Clay (0–3)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–1)

Doubles: 5 (1–4) LegendATP Challenger (0–0)ITF Futures (1–4)Finals by surfaceHard (1–3)Clay (0–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)

Record against top 10 players Wins over top 10 players He has a record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.