RYAN PENISTON is the British tennis star who was tasked with taking on Andy Murray in the first round of Wimbledon 2023.
The sportsman, from Essex, is ranked seventh in the UK and 267th in the world, and made his debut at Wimbledon in 2022.
Tennis Ryan Peniston has shared several pictures on Instagram with a woman who is thought to be his girlfriendInstagram/@ryanhpen
Is Ryan Peniston married?
There are reports online saying that Ryan Peniston is married to Haley Goodman, but he has publicly stated he has a girlfriend.
According to some outlets, social media posts show that Ryan became engaged to a woman called Haley in May 2020 and had a wedding in November of that year.
Ahead of Wimbledon 2023, however, Ryan confirmed that he has a girlfriend.
Recounting how he found out he would be playing Andy Murray at the tennis competition, Ryan said was driving from “[his] girlfriend’s” house when he got the information.
He said: “I was literally just driving from my girlfriend’s [and] I had a text from my coach, Mark.
“He just said, ‘Andy!’. It’s pretty cool. I almost crashed. I was pretty pumped.”
Ryan did not name his girlfriend but, on his Instagram, he has shared several pictures with a user called Holly Robarts.
The posts show the pair sharing a holiday together and dressing up in Harry Potter costumes, as well as posing with Ryan’s family.
Does Ryan Peniston have children?
Ryan does not appear to have children.
He does often posts pictures on his Instagram page of his family, including his parents Paul and Penny Peniston.
Ryan is the youngest of the three brothers and his elder siblings are called Sam and Harry.
The tennis star comes from a family full of medics as Sam is a paediatric nurse and Harry is a junior doctor.
Ryan’s mother is a part-time nurse and his dad is a retired train driver.
What cancer did Ryan Peniston have?
When he was a child Ryan survived rhabdomyosarcoma, which is a kind of a soft tissue cancer.
He was just one year old when his parents found a lump on his thumb and Ryan then had to have surgery to remove a tumour, as well as undergoing chemotherapy.
18 months after his diagnosis Ryan was given the all-clear, but the illness stunted his growth throughout his childhood and teen years.
Ryan is six feet tall now, but says he was a “foot smaller than all [his] peers up until the age of 15-16”.
Due to that lack of height growing up, Peniston had to “rely on other skills to win tennis matches”, which would involve “anticipating, reading the game a little better instead of having a massive serve”.
Ryan’s mother Penny has credited Ryan’s cancer battle for giving him the strength and drive to succeed in tennis.
“He’s such a determined fighter,” she told The Mirror in 2022.