The Argentinian wheelchair tennis player won the men's singles title in Melbourne after beating France's Nicolas Peifer in three sets in the final.

The world number four also finished as a runner-up in the doubles alongside Great Britain's Alife Hewett.

Also nominated is Dutch skier Jeroen Kampschreur, who won three sitting titles at the World Para Alpine Skiing Championships in Tarvisio in Italy at the age of just 17.

German skier Andrea Rothfuss also gets a nod for her performance in Tarivisio, where she beat France's multiple world champion Marie Bochet to gold in the women's giant slalom standing.

She followed that up with a second gold medal in the slalom race.

Ukraine's Oleksandra Kononova is in the frame after she won all of six of her cross-country skiing and biathlon events in the women's standing at her home World Cup in Western Center.

Completing the list is British archer Jessica Stretton, the double Rio 2016 champion who broke the world record in the women's W1 Open Compound event in January.

She scored 656 points at the Second Fazza International Para Archery Championship in Dubai. 

Nominations for the monthly award are decided after submissions by National Paralympic Committees and International Federations, before the public votes online.

This month's vote can be found here. 

German table tennis player Thomas Schmidberger won the award in December.