Tim Henman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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English tennis player
Date of Birth: 06-Sep-1974
Place of Birth: Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Profession: tennis player
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Tim Henman
- Timothy Henry Henman OBE (born 6 September 1974) is a retired British 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 semi-finals and won 15 career ATP titles (11 in singles and four in doubles), including the Paris Masters in 2003.
- Also, he scored 40 wins and 14 losses with the Great Britain Davis Cup team. Henman was ranked British 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.
- He is one of Britain's most successful open era male tennis players, winning $11,635,542 prize money.
- In the 2004 New Year Honours, he was appointed an OBE.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, only becoming truly comfortable on clay and hard court near 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).
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