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Vote: October Player of the Month
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With another busy month coming to a close and lots of British success to celebrate - vote for your Player of the Month for October.
How does it work?
Every month, three players will be nominated for each of the following categories:
- Men’s singles
- Women’s singles
- Doubles
- Wheelchair
How to vote
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The nominees
Men's singles
- Came through qualifying to eventually make the final at the Mouilleron le Captif Challenger – finishing runner-up
- Quarter-final finish at the Brest Challenger
- Defeated former top 10-star David Goffin
- New career-high ranking at world No.269
- Made it through to back-to-back ATP Challenger semi-finals in Hamburg and Ortisei
- Quarter-final appearances at Challenger events in Alicante and Malaga
- Claimed career-best win and first top 50 victory against Roberto Bautista Agut
- Rose 70 places in a month to world No.234
- Won his first ITF $25k title at the M25 Zaragoza without dropping a set
- Backed it up by winning a second at the M25 Santa Margherita di Pula
- 10-1 winning record in October
- Career-high ranking at world No.370
Women's singles
Amarni Banks
- Battled through to her first W100 final in Shrewsbury – beating the second, fourth and eight seed along the way
- Career-best win over France’s Oceane Dodin
- Second round at W60 Glasgow and W25 Reims
- New career-high ranking at world No.309
Hannah Klugman
- Youngest player to ever qualify for a W100 event at the event in Shrewsbury
- The 14-year-old made the W100 Shrewsbury quarter-finals – pushing second seed Dodin to three sets
- Reached the quarter-finals at the W60 Glasgow
Mingge Xu
- 16-year-old Xu came through qualifying to reach the semi-finals at the W60 Glasgow
- Defeated fellow Brits Isabelle Lacy, Klugman and world No.178 Gabriela Knutson
Doubles
- Champion at the ATP Vienna for a third time in his career
- Won three match tie-breaks en route to the title
- Second round at the Rolex Shanghai Masters
- Won the biggest title of her career at the Transylvania Open with Jil Teichmann
- Knocked out top seeds Alycia Parks and Elena Gabriela Ruse
- Reached new doubles career-high at world No.154
- Reached a final in every week of October
- Won three ATP Challenger titles in Mouilleron le Captif, Malaga and Brest
- Made the final of the ATP 250 Stockholm with Yuki Bhambri – finishing runner-up
- Broke into the ATP doubles top 50
Wheelchair
- Won the ITF 1 Catalonia Open women’s doubles with Maria Florencia Moreno
- The title marked her fourth ITF 1 trophy of the season
- Finished runner-up in the Calatlonia Open singles to Gustavo Fernandez
- Reached but lost the doubles final at the Catalonia Open with Gordon Reid
Andrew Penney
- Crowned champions at the International Wheelchair Tenis Porto men’s doubles with Joshua Johns
- Runner-up at the Abingdon Futures men’s doubles with Dermot Bailey
- Singles semi-finalist in Abingdon as well
