It will be a "dream come true" for Ryan Peniston when he walks out to play Henri Laaksonen at Wimbledon on Monday afternoon.
The British No 6 played at SW19 last year in both the doubles and mixed doubles events, but has now qualified for the men's main draw for the first time. And simply qualifying represents the culmination of a story which has seen the 26-year-old overcome cancer.
When just a one-year-old, Peniston, from Essex, was forced to undergo tests after his parents found a lump on his thumb. He was duly diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare cancer which forms in soft tissue.
