Tim Henman
Tennis Player
1974 –
Who is Tim Henman?
Timothy Henry "Tim" Henman, OBE is a retired English professional tennis player. Henman played a serve-and-volley style of tennis. He was the first player from the United Kingdom since Roger Taylor in the 1970s to reach the semi-finals of the Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship. Henman never reached the finals of any Grand Slam but reached six Grand Slam semifinals and won 15 career ATP titles including the Paris Masters in 2003. He reached the ranking of World No. 4 and was one of Britain's most successful open era male tennis players.
Henman started playing tennis before the age of three, and began systematic training in the Slater Squad at eleven. After suffering a serious injury which affected him for the better part of two years, he began touring internationally as a junior and achieved some successes. He rose quickly up the ATP rankings, and by 1996 had reached the quarter-finals of the Wimbledon Championships. Throughout his career, Henman was a noted grass specialist, not becoming truly comfortable on clay and hard court before the end of his career, when in 2004 he reached the semi-finals in both the French and US Open. The year 2005 began a decline for Henman, and from that year onwards he never managed to pass through the third round in a Grand Slam tournament. Henman retired from professional tennis in late 2007, but he remains active in the ATP Champions Tour.
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- Born
- Sep 6, 1974
Oxford - Also known as
- Timothy Henry Henman
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Lucy Heald
(1999/12/11 - )
- Lucy Heald
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Reed's School
- Lived in
- London
- Oxfordshire
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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