The phrase "as a future contender" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's potential or likelihood of competing successfully in a particular field or event in the future.
Example: "With her impressive track record in previous competitions, she is seen as a future contender for the championship title."
Alternatives: "as a potential competitor" or "as an upcoming challenger".
Elsewhere, though, some other Republicans were raising his name as a future contender for higher office.
Mr. Pilot, who had been seen by many as a future contender for prime minister, came from a humble farming family in the village of Baidpura, in Uttar Pradesh.
Justice delayed is justice denied.Hard to know how things reached this pass, for just this summer we were told that May was the safest pair of hands, had quietly placed her stamp, and was one to watch as a future contender for the party leadership.
And why would Mr. Kerrey, who sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992 and has been mentioned as a future contender, want to spend his time mediating among competing deans and professors and courting New York's rich and famous to fill the university's coffers rather than his own political war chest?
And Martine Aubry, the socialist labor minister, is widely seen as a serious future contender to become France's first Madame la Presidente de la Republique.
Many donors, especially libertarian-leaning financiers, envisioned him as a future presidential contender.
Seen as a future leadership contender if and when Corbyn steps down.
Boris Johnson, the London mayor often touted as a future leadership contender, condemned Israel with the words Cameron has declined to deploy.
Still, it was a striking move for a Republican governor widely talked about as a future presidential contender, at a time when his party nationally is still strongly influenced by social conservatives.
The revelation comes despite a warning from the Labour MP Dan Jarvis, who is tipped as a future leadership contender, that he may not stand at the next election if Mr Corbyn changes the party's stance on Trident.
The Human-Rights-Act-bashing Mail was happy to praise her for doing so on Wednesday over seven pages, and talked about her as a future leadership contender – a sweetie often handed out in Fleet St, but rarely wisely.
