Enjoy Celebrity Radio’s Tim Henman Life Story Interview Wimbledon….
Tim Henman is the former British No1 Champion tennis player.
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 semi finals and won 15 career ATP titles (11 in singles and four in doubles) including the Paris Masters in 2003.
He is one of Britain’s most successful open era male tennis players winning $11,635,542 prize money.
In June 2015 Tim is promoting The Great Robinsons Ball Hunt. FIND OUT MORE HERE!
Here’s Alex Belfield in conversation with Tim Henman:
He was ranked UK number 1 in 1996 and again from 1999 to 2005 from which point he was succeeded by Andy Murray.
He reached a career high ranking of World No. 4 during three different periods between July 2002 and October 2004.
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 (a tour for former professional tennis players).
Recorded 17th June 2015 by Alex Belfield for Celebrity Radio.
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