Tim Henman

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Tim Henman

Country	Great Britain
Residence	London
Date of birth	6 September 1974 (age 32)
Place of birth	Oxford, England
Height	6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight	12 st 2 lb (170 lb, 77 kg)
Turned Pro	1993
Plays	Right; One-handed backhand
Career Prize Money	$11,508,447
Singles
Career record:	490-264
Career titles:	11
Highest ranking:	No. 4 (August 7, 2002)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	4th (2000, 2001, 2002)
French Open	SF (2004)
Wimbledon	SF (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002)
U.S. Open	SF (2004)
Doubles
Career record:	85-78
Career titles:	4
Highest ranking:	No. 62 (February 21, 2000)
Infobox last updated on: March 19, 2007.

Olympic medal record
Men's Tennis
Silver	Atlanta 1996	Doubles

Timothy Henry Henman, OBE (born 6 September 1974 in Oxford) is an English tennis player.

He is 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, and prior to the emergence of Andy Murray was regarded by his fans (whose devotion is known as "Henmania") as the UK's only hope of winning the tournament, a feat last achieved by Fred Perry in 1936.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Professional career 3 Masters Series singles finals 3.1 Wins (1) 3.2 Runner-ups (3) 4 Singles Record 4.1 Titles Won 4.2 Singles Finalist 5 Doubles Record 5.1 Titles Won 5.2 Doubles Finalist 6 Performance timeline 7 External links

[edit] Early life

Henman was educated at Dragon School and Reed's School. 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 many different places some as smaller places as Ilkleys tennis club

While still at school, Henman was diagnosed with osteochondritis, a bone disease (one form of chondritis). However, he kept playing tennis, and in 1992 won the National Junior titles in singles and doubles, deciding to join the professional tour in 1993.

[edit] Professional career

He climbed up the ranks very quickly: in 1994, he was among the top 200 players in the world; by 1995, among the top 100; and by 1996, he had made it into the top 30 and won a medal at the Atlanta Olympics. He was the UK's highest ranked player that year, and won the Most Improved Player trophy at the ATP awards. He was subsequently elected to the ATP Tour Player Council and went on to win his first championship in January 1997. In March of that year, he underwent surgery on his elbow which kept him out of action for two months.

In 1998, the year in which he reached Wimbledon's semi-finals for the first time, he was ranked as one of the top 10 ATP players. In 1999, Henman married his long-term girlfriend, TV producer Lucy Heald.

"Tiger Tim" - as he is known to the British tabloids and Wimbledon diehards (many of whom assemble on Henman Hill, unofficially named for their hero) - has come close to reaching the final on a number of occasions, bowing out during the semi-final in 1998, 1999, 2001 (when just two points from victory at one point) and 2002. In 2000 he reached the fourth round and in 1996, 1997, 2003 and 2004 he was ousted during the quarter-finals.

One of the tournaments he has been most successful in is Queen's Club. He reached the final in 1999, where he lost to Pete Sampras, and went on to reach the final again in 2001 and 2002, where both times he lost to Lleyton Hewitt.

2001 was Tim's best Wimbledon year. He beat 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. Goran 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 0-6. 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 Goran 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. There was no looking back. Ivanišević won the decider 6-3 and went on to win the title.

In 2003 he finally took his first ATP Masters Series title, winning in Paris against Andrei Pavel. Better still, he beat Roger Federer and Andy Roddick on his way to the final.

Until 2004, Henman had never progressed beyond the fourth round of any grand slam except Wimbledon. However, he finally won a fourth round match at the French Open at the 2004 championships. His run finally came to an end in the semifinals, where he was beaten by tournament favorite and runner-up Guillermo Coria after winning the first set, the first that the Argentine had lost during the championships. Henman then continued his form and reached the quaterfinals of Wimbledon. Later that year, he added another grand slam semifinal appearence a few months later, at the US Open, losing to eventual champion Roger Federer. Finally, at the end of year he qualified for the year-end Tennis Masters Cup.

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In the 2004 Summer Olympics tennis event, Henman was seeded fourth and expected to do well, but lost in the first round.

In 2005, he lost in straight sets to Nikolay Davydenko in the third round of the Australian Open. This was considered a great disappointment, given his improved results at Grand Slams in the previous year. He went out in the second round at both the French Open and Wimbledon. In France, he lost in four sets to Luis Horna. At Wimbledon, he lost in five sets to Dmitry Tursunov after being 2-1 up; he narrowly won his first round match also in five sets, having been 2-0 down. At the US Open he lost in straight sets in the first round to Fernando Verdasco.

Henman ended an eight-match losing streak against Lleyton Hewitt on March 25th 2006, with a 7-6 6-3 victory at the Nasdaq-100 event in Miami. The outcome was totally unexpected, but the Australian #1 didn't look very good during the entire match. However, 3 months later at 2006 The Stella Artois Championships Jun 12-Jun 18, Henman lost to Lleyton Hewitt 3-6, 6-3, 2-6 in the semifinals and also lost to Roger Federer at Wimbledon 2006 in the 2nd round.

Henman has recently stated in the media that he has no plans to retire in the near future, although he has yet to reach a Grand Slam final and his results in recent years have shown a reversal seeing 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, 4-6, 0-6, 2-6, after a five-set victory over Robin Soderling of Sweden in the first round. Of late Henman has experienced improved results with his world ranking rising to 39. However, he continues to suffer from injury problems.

Henman was created an OBE in the 2003 New Year's Honours List.

In late 2006, Henman finally reached his first final since 2004 (Indian Wells) at the AIG Open, losing to Roger Federer 3-6 3-6.

Henman was forced to withdraw from the Australian open in 2007 because of a hamstring injury. He returned in time to enter Masters Series Events in Indian Wells Masters and Miami Masters but lost in the first round in both of them.

[edit] Masters Series singles finals

[edit] Wins (1)

Year	Tournament	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
2003	Paris	Andrei Pavel	6-2, 7-6, 7-6

[edit] Runner-ups (3)

Year	Tournament	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
2000	Cincinnati	Thomas Enqvist	6-7, 4-6
2002	Indian Wells	Lleyton Hewitt	1-6, 2-6
2004	Indian Wells	Roger Federer	3-6, 3-6

[edit] Singles Record

[edit] Titles Won

Tennis Masters Series (1)

ATP Tour (10)

Challengers (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	October 1995	Seoul, South Korea	Clay	Vincenzo Santopadre	6-2, 4-6, 6-4
2.	November 1995	Réunion, French Colony	Hard	Patrick Baur	1-6, 6-3, 7-6
3.	January 6, 1997	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Carlos Moyá	6-3, 6-1
4.	September 8, 1997	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Marc Rosset	7-6, 6-4
5.	October 5, 1998	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	7-5, 6-4
6.	October 5, 1998	Basel, Switzerland	Carpet	Andre Agassi	6-4, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
7.	October 9, 2000	Vienna, Austria	Hard	Tommy Haas	6-4, 6-4, 6-4
8.	November 20, 2000	Brighton, United Kingdom	Hard	Dominik Hrbaty	6-2, 6-2
9.	February 12, 2001	Copenhagen, Denmark	Hard	Andreas Vinciguerra	6-3, 6-4
10.	October 22, 2001	Basel, Switzerland	Carpet	Roger Federer	6-3, 6-4, 6-2
11.	January 1, 2002	Adelaide, Australia	Hard	Mark Philippoussis	6-4, 6-7, 6-3
12.	July 28, 2003	Washington, USA	Hard	Fernando González	6-3, 6-4
13.	October 27, 2003	Paris Masters, France	Carpet	Andrei Pavel	6-2, 7-6, 7-6

[edit] Singles Finalist

Tennis Masters Series (3)

ATP Tour (14)

• 1997: Doha, LOST to Jim Courier.
• 1997: Antwerp, LOST to Marc Rosset.
• 1998: Sydney, LOST to Karol Kučera.
• 1998: Los Angeles, LOST to Andre Agassi.
• 1999: Doha LOST to Rainer Schüttler.
• 1999: Rotterdam, LOST to Yevgeny Kafelnikov.
• 1999: London, Queen's Club, LOST to Pete Sampras.
• 1999: Basel, LOST to Karol Kučera.
• 2000: Rotterdam, LOST to Cédric Pioline.
• 2000: Scottsdale, LOST to Lleyton Hewitt.
• 2000: Cincinnati Masters TMS (Tennis Masters Series), LOST to Thomas Enqvist.
• 2001: London, Queen's Club, LOST to Lleyton Hewitt.
• 2002: Indian Wells Masters, LOST to Lleyton Hewitt.
• 2002: Rotterdam, LOST to Nicolas Escudé.
• 2002: London, Queen's Club, LOST to Lleyton Hewitt.
• 2004: Indian Wells Masters, LOST to Roger Federer.
• 2006: Japan Open Tennis Championships, LOST to Roger Federer.

[edit] Doubles Record

[edit] Titles Won

Tennis Masters Series (2)

ATP Tour (2)

Challengers (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	1995	Manchester, UK	Grass	Mark Petchey	Massimo Bertolini & Diego Nargiso	6-3 6-4
2.	1995	Azores, Portugal	Hard	David Saceanu	Nuno Marques & Chris Wilkinson	6-2 6-2
3.	1995	Seoul, South Korea	Clay	Andrew Richardson	Filippo Messori & Vincenzo Santopadre	6-2 6-1
4.	1997	Basel, Switzerland	Carpet	Marc Rosset	Karsten Braasch & Jim Grabb	7-6 6-7 7-6
5.	1999	London, UK	Carpet	Greg Rusedski	Byron Black & Wayne Ferreira	6-3 7-6
6.	1999	Monte Carlo Masters	Clay	Olivier Delaitre	Jiří Novák & David Rikl	6-2 6-3
7.	2004	Monte Carlo Masters	Clay	Nenad Zimonjić	Gaston Etlis & Martin Rodriguez	7-5 6-2

[edit] Doubles Finalist

Olympic Games (1)

ATP Tour (1)

• 1996 Atlanta Olympics with Neil Broad, lost to Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde (Australia)
• 2000 Rotterdam with Yevgeny Kafelnikov, lost to David Adams and John-Laffnie de Jager, South Africa

Note: The Tennis Masters Series, Masters Series and ATP Masters Series Events - as they are variously referred to, are a group of tournaments with more prestige than normal tour events, but less importance than the Grand Slams.

[edit] Performance timeline

Tournament	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Australian Open	A	A	2R	3R	1R	3R	4R	4R	4R	A	3R	3R	1R	A	0 / 10	18-10
French Open	A	A	1R	1R	1R	3R	3R	3R	2R	3R	SF	2R	2R		0 / 11	16-11
Wimbledon	1R	2R	QF	QF	SF	SF	4R	SF	SF	QF	QF	2R	2R		0 / 12	42-12
U.S. Open	A	2R	4R	2R	4R	1R	3R	3R	3R	1R	SF	1R	1R		0 / 12	20-12
Grand Slam Win-Loss	0-1	4-2	8-4	7-4	8-4	8-4	10-4	12-4	11-4	6-3	16-4	4-4	2-4	0-0	N/A	96-46
Tennis Masters Cup	A	A	A	RR	SF	A	A	A	A	A	RR	A	A		0 / 3	4-4
ATP Tournaments Won	0	0	0	2	2	0	2	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	N/A	12
Year End Ranking	167	95	29	17	7	11	10	9	8	15	6	36	39		N/A	N/A

• A = did not participate in the tournament
• SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played

[edit] External links

• Official Site
• ATP Tour profile for Tim Henman
• Profile on tenniscorner.net
• Profile, Results and Statistics