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 Tournament20192020202120222023202420252026SRW–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenAAAAQ1Q2AQ10 / 00–0French OpenAAAQ1Q2Q1A0 / 00–0WimbledonQ1NHQ12R1RQ1Q20 / 21–2US OpenAAAQ1AAA0 / 00–0Win–loss0–00–00–01–10–10–00–00–00 / 21–2ATP Masters 1000Indian Wells MastersANHAAAAA0 / 00–0Miami OpenANHAAAAA0 / 00–0Monte Carlo MastersANHAAAAA0 / 00–0Madrid OpenANHAAAAA0 / 00-0Italian OpenAAAAQ1AA0 / 00–0Canadian OpenANHAAAAA0 / 00–0Cincinnati MastersAAAAAAA0 / 00–0Shanghai MastersANHAAA0 / 00–0Paris MastersAAAAAAA0 / 00–0Win–loss0–00–00–00–00–00–00–00–00 / 00–0Career statisticsTournaments000426Overall win–loss0–00–00–05–41–26–6Year-end ranking389378268167
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)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1USA F35, TallahasseeFuturesHard Maxime Cressy4–6, 6–7(4–7)Win1–1M15 CancúnFuturesHard Austin Rapp6–4, 6–4Win2–1M15 CancúnFuturesHard Tomás Martín Etcheverry6–4, 7–5Loss2–2M25 DublinFuturesCarpet Igor Sijsling4–6, 6–7(8–10)Loss2–3M15 Hua HinFuturesHard Hsu Yu-hsiou3–6, 3–6Loss2–4M25 Fort WorthFuturesHard Jesper de Jong2–6, 0–6Win3–4M15 HeraklionFuturesHard Yuta Shimizu6–3, 6–0Win4–4M15 HeraklionFuturesHard Zhang Ze6–4, 6–1Loss4–5Prague, Czech RepublicChallengerClay Franco Agamenone3–6, 1–6Loss4–6Antalya, TurkeyChallengerClay Nuno Borges4–6, 3–6Loss4–7M25 LoughboroughFuturesHard Antoine Escoffier4–6, 6–3, 3–6Loss4–8Ostrava, Czech RepublicChallengerClay Evan Furness6–4, 6–7(6–8), 1–6Win5–8Winnipeg, CanadaChallengerHard Leandro Riedi6–4, 4–6, 6–4 Win6–8M25 HeraklionFuturesHard Louis Dussin6-4, 6–1, 3–6 Win7–8M25 MonastirFuturesHard Federico Iannaccone6–0, 6–1 Loss7–9M25 SunderlandWTTHard Johannus Monday4–6, 2–6 Loss7–10M25 Vila Real de Santo AntonioWTTHard Gastao Elias2–6, 1–6 Win8–10M25 LouléWTTHard Chris Rodesch3–6, 6–1, 6–3 Win9–10M25 TbilisiWTTHard Martin Damm6–2, 3–6, 6–1 Loss9–11M25 PozzuoliWTTHard Remy Bertola6–7(5–7), 5–7
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)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Great Britain F6, BarnstapleFuturesHard Robert Carter Peter Bothwell Neil Pauffley4–6, 7–6(7–5), [6–10]Win1–1Qatar F4, DohaFuturesHard Andrew Watson Richard Gabb Luke Johnson6–3, 7–6(7–4)Loss1–2Spain F24, SantanderFuturesClay Andrew Watson Ivan Gakhov Jaume Pla Malfeito4–6, 4–6Loss1–3M25 CalabasasFuturesHard Jack Findel-Hawkins Boris Arias Sekou Bangoura2–6, 2–6Loss1–4M15 TallahasseeFuturesHard Jack Findel-Hawkins Strong Kirchheimer Dennis Novikov5–7, 3–6
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.
Season 2022TotalWins11
#PlayerRankEventSurfaceRdScore20221. Casper Ruud5Queen's Club, United KingdomGrass1R7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–2)180
References
External links
Lawn Tennis Association profile