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Full Tim Henman Biography
Henman was educated at Dragon School, Oxford and Reed's School, Cobham. He comes from a sporting family: his father was accomplished at various sports, including tennis. His grandfather and great-grandfather also competed at Wimbledon. Henman supports Oxford United Football Club and is a keen golfer.
Between the ages of 10 and 17 he was a member of the David Lloyd Slater Squad, where he trained alongside a number of other young British tennis hopefuls. Henman won many titles at various different tournaments, some at smaller places such as Ilkleys tennis club.
2001 was Tim's best Wimbledon year. He beat the emerging Roger Federer in 4 sets during the quarterfinal and gained a lot of confidence coming into the semis since the latter just took out defending champion Pete Sampras. Tim faced three-time finalist Goran Ivanišević, who was likewise seeking his first Wimbledon victory. Ivanišević took the first set 7-5 after breaking Tim's serve with a return winner. Henman took the second after a tight tiebreak that seemed Ivanišević's way from the start. The latter gave in at the third, losing 6-0. The odds were for Henman then on, but rain came early in the fourth set that suspended the match and enabled his opponent to recover. When play resumed, the set went on until Ivanišević took the tiebreak. Rain came again in the middle of the fifth set. Henman netted a handful of easy volleys during one of his service games, giving Ivanišević the break. Ivanišević won the decider 6-3 and went on to win the title.
Until 2004, Henman had never progressed beyond the fourth round of any grand slam with the exception Wimbledon. However, at the Roland Garros he took the tournament by storm, taking many accomplished clay-court players by surprise with his direct serve-volley style, whereas the majority of competitors on that surface elect a baseline approach, such as reigning champion Rafael Nadal. His run finally came to an end in the semifinals, where he was beaten by tournament favourite and runner-up Guillermo Coria after winning the first set, the first that the Argentine had lost during the championships. At that time Coria had only lost once on clay in some 70 matches. Henman then continued his form and reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon. Later that year, he added another grand slam semifinal appearance a few months later, at the U.S. Open, losing to eventual champion Roger Federer. Finally, at the end of year he qualified for the year-end Tennis Masters Cup.
In the 2004 Summer Olympics tennis event, Henman was seeded fourth and expected to do well, but lost in the first round.
Henman has yet to reach a Grand Slam final and his results in recent years have seen him slip down the rankings to 62, leading to him being unseeded at Wimbledon for the first time in a number of years. At the 2006 Wimbledon championships, he lost in the second round to eventual champion Federer, 6-4, 6-0, 6-2, after a five-set victory over Robin Söderling of Sweden in the first round. Henman experienced improved results with his world ranking rising to 39. However, he continued to suffer from injury problems.
Henman was created an OBE in the 2003 New Year's Honours List. He was painted by Royal artist Christian Furr in 2005.
The following week he faltered in the third round in Madrid to David Nalbandian 6-2 2-6 7-5 after serving for the match. During this match there was reported animosity between the players over a disputed line call. Henman and Nalbandian were seen to be having words during the later changeovers.
On Henman's last practice session before departing for the Australian Open at the start of 2007 he injured his hamstring after having recovered from his knee injury and was forced to withdraw from the tournament because of a hamstring injury. He returned in time to enter Masters Series events in Indian Wells and Miami after withdrawing from Rotterdam & Zagreb but lost in the first round in both of them.
Henman's poor luck with injury, draws and form continued into the 2007 clay court season with first round losses to Juan Carlos Ferrero 7-5 6-2 in Monaco, Nicolas Almagro 7-5 6-1 in Rome and a poor showing against 18 year old grand slam debutant Ernests Gulbis 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 in the French Open. Henman's clay court season ended without a single set won. His Grass court season got underway on 12 June 2007 at Queens Club, but was put to an abrupt end by Croatian wildcard entry Marin Čilić. Henman lost by 2 sets to 1 (7-6, 2-6, 6-4). However, he ended the day on a high with a doubles victory with partner Lleyton Hewitt over Australian Jordan Kerr and Austrian Alexander Peya (5-7, 6-4, 10-8). An early loss at a grass court event in Nottingham bode badly for Wimbledon but in the first round Henman showed flashes of his former self to dispatch the 25th seed, Carlos Moyà, in another trademark Henman fifth setter, 6-3, 1-6, 5-7, 6-2, 13-11. However, his efforts were in vain, as he was knocked out in the second round by Feliciano López in 5 sets on Centre Court.
Tim Henman defeated his nemesis Dmitry Tursunov (who had won five of their six previous matches ) in the 1st round of the US Open 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in what many assumed would be his final grand slam match. He did in fact compete in his final grand slam match on August 31, 2007 and was defeated by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6 (7-2), 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 in the second round. |
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