Tim Henman
Tim Henman
Timothy Henry "Tim" Henman OBEis a retired English professional tennis player. Henman played a serve-and-volley style of tennis. He was the first male 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. Also, he scored 40 wins and 14 losses with...
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth6 September 1974
bizarre doubt good level playing space stuff
No doubt the most bizarre I've ever played. I'm shocked, really. His level went from nonexistent to playing some pretty good stuff in the space of a game.
australian coming enjoyed good offers open playing thinking winning
I've always enjoyed coming to Doha and playing here. The Qatar Open offers a good tune-up before the Australian Open but I am not thinking about winning it.
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It wasn't a good season for me in 2005 and I wanted to try to get off to a good start. And beating a guy of his caliber is what I was looking for.
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I'll have to be aware of gradually trying to increase my intensity and work-out, but I'm confident that it's going to be totally healed by the time the US Open rolls around, which is obviously good news.
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Everything so far has been a bonus and this is a good way to finish my birthday.
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I'm happy with the way I'm hitting the ball, ... I feel motivated but having played so little I still feel pretty fresh and in a good frame of mind.
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As my record states, he's the most difficult for me to play if I'm attacking and coming forward all the time because he's so good at returning and then picking off the passing shots. It was good that I felt much more comfortable with a different style today, and obviously to get the result is a huge boost.
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I felt like I wanted to be very meticulous and disciplined with my service games, and I think I did a very good job with that,
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It's a good sense of achievement. But why stop here? I feel good about my game and I am feeling in good shape. I'm ready to come here on Friday and do it all again.
felt game good played round service
But I do like the way I responded from that. I just played another good service game and just felt all round it was a good performance.
good match physically
I feel physically I was a lot better than I was in my first match and that's a good sign.
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It was a good start for me. I was happy with my overall game.
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It's a good win. He's a top-20 player and I've beaten him twice this year. Hopefully I can keep building on this.
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It was a good start for me. I just got in yesterday and could not prepare much. I played the first set solid, and he was making a lot of unforced errors. I just focused on not giving him cheap points.