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No question, when you're talking about Grand Slams, they're the pinnacle of the game, and that's what I want to be winning.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Pinnacle
Grand
Grand Slams
No Question
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If people's opinion, whether they liked you or not, made you a better player then we'd all be out there on the charm offensive.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Charm
Offensive
Better Player
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Movement on clay is totally different to every other surface and you have to have that balance and understanding of how to slide.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Clay
Slide
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I was part of the David Lloyd Academy and when I was 16-17 years old I got to practise with Stefan Edberg and that really helped me.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Practise
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Returning serve on clay is not easy because you don't always have a sure footing so you can't push off in the way that you would like.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Clay
Footing
Returning
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A professional notices any small change to their racket, whether it's something a bit different to the grip, the strings or the frame.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Racket
Strings
Frame
Grip
Notices
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A lot of clay court players want rhythm. They want the time to play from the baseline, and it's about preventing them from having that.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Clay
Preventing
Rhythm
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Players need to look at their own tours, which are run separately from the slams, and ask why they haven't improved the funds on offer.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Tours
Funds
Improved
Separately
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The on-site catering facilities at Wimbledon are absolutely fantastic. Whatever your dietary requirements are, you can find what you need.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Catering
Requirements
Wimbledon
Dietary
Facilities
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People sometimes come up to me and call me Tiger Tim. Why am I called that? I don't know, it starts with T and I don't know. It has stuck.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Me People Sometimes
Tiger
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Tennis has always been my hobby and I love to play but it's also not a bad way to earn your living and it might help if children knew that.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Love Always Your
Bad Way
Hobby
Earn
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My wife and I went on a safari break in Singita, South Africa, for our honeymoon and then we went back for our 10th anniversary, which was amazing.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Anniversary
Honeymoon
South Africa
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Unless we get children playing tennis, we'll lose the talented ones with good athletic ability and hand-eye coordination to football and other sports.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Coordination
Good Sports Football
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I've always felt that my generation was the last group to have passion about the game. Some of today's guys don't seem to share that interest and it shows.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Games
Guy
Passion
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When I was playing, I kept my calorie intake up with protein shakes and chicken, fish and steak. Now there's no real diet, but I pay attention to what I eat.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Pay Attention
Protein
Shakes
Steak
Diet Fish Chicken
Calorie
Chicken
Intake
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The pressure I did feel before matches was self-inflicted. I didn't go out on court there thinking about what was being said in the papers and on TV about me.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Papers
Self Inflicted
Matches
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I've worked hard ever since I was that 18-year-old kid who travelled to South America and India to play small tournaments in the hope of cracking the top 200.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
South America
Tournaments
Cracking
Travelled
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The players that always used to frighten me were the big servers so someone like John Isner if he gets on a roll with his serve, can be a nightmare to play against.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Nightmare
Me Always Someone
Frighten
Me Always Big
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The ATP is a difficult structure, it is 50% players, 50% tournaments. And so if you are the chairperson of that organization, it's very difficult to please everyone.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Tournaments
Please Everyone
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The Olympics had never really been on my agenda. I had been a huge sports fan growing up, But it never really occurred to me that I would have a chance to participate.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Olympics
Sports Fan
Agenda
Occurred
Participate
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If you'd asked me when I was 18 if I'd be happy being in the top 100 male players for 10 years, I'd have taken that like a shot. As it turned out I was top five for a decade.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Decade
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If there has been any match-fixing then we need to make sure that it's erased from our sport because it's a crime in sports. We have no place for it in any sport let alone tennis.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Erased
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There are no grey areas with commitment, you're either in or you are out; 95 per cent doesn't work. I didn't have that much talent as a kid, but I worked at it, all hours known to man.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Grey
Cent
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Tennis is not always that accessible but I sometimes think badminton is harder - tennis you can always play against the wall but badminton is tough to even play outdoors with the wind.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Badminton
Wind
Accessible
Outdoors
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You cannot play every week, and a couple of weeks away is vital. When you look at Federer's record and the number of Slams he has competed in, it highlights how he plans so far in advance.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Federer
Highlights
Plans
Advance
Vital
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Dealing with the press it was pretty obvious there was a right answer and there was an honest answer. I think quite a lot of the time I gave the right answer. That was my defence mechanism.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Defence
Obvious
Quite A Lot
Right Answer
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I've never been interested in the whole fame game; the headlines when I was disqualified in 1995 for hitting a ball girl were more than enough to make me want to keep my head under the radar.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Headlines
Hitting
Radar
Disqualified
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I had eight consecutive years in the top 20 and five of those were in the top 10. That's something I'm very proud of. And the way that I played some of my matches at Wimbledon was also very special.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Consecutive
Wimbledon
Matches
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There is no desire from the new British players. They say their coach doesn't travel with them so it's hard, but I played hundreds of players from Eastern Europe and Russia who had no facilities at all.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Europe
Player
Russia
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People need to know that they can make a living. We are losing a lot of the best athletes to other sports at the age of seven or eight, which is exactly the time when you want to get a racket into their hand.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Racket
Athletes
Best Time Age
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When I think about how badly I wanted to be a player, and how obsessed I was with the game, I think that, for a long time in British tennis, that's been a big question mark with the kids, how much they want it.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Question Mark
Time Game Long
Badly
Big Question
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When you are dealing with two players who are almost mirror images, the contest often boils down to first-serve percentage. Who is getting more cheap points on their first serve? Who can dominate the other guy's second serve?
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Boils
Cheap
Contest
Dominate
Images
Mirror
Percentage
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Wimbledon is quite simply the ultimate championship, and I'd be the first to admit it was the one I wanted to win. A lot has to do with the history and the tradition: the grass courts, the royal box, the grand spectacle of it all.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Championship
Royal
Wimbledon
Be The First
Courts
Grand
Spectacle
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When I was 28, my wisdom teeth were coming through and I had all four out under general anaesthetic. I remember friends who'd had terrible experiences, but my teeth were removed at 8am and I ate steak and chips for lunch that day.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Chips
Lunch
Steak
Teeth
Ate
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If success is measured in maximising your potential and giving 100 per cent to what you do, enjoying it and making a good living then I'm very happy with what I've achieved. If other people wanted more than that from me, what could I do?
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Good Living
Success Good Your
Achieved
Success Good Me
Cent
Enjoying
Measured
Success Is
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I would say, hand on heart, I probably had a very good relationship with the press. The tennis journalists that followed me throughout my career... sure, you know, we had a few bumps in the road, if you like, but that's what you're paid to do.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Bumps
Good Relationship
Followed
Journalists
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Clay is so challenging as a surface because you want to be playing aggressively but the margins are so small and it's easy to get the balance wrong and start making errors. Getting your movement right and preparing correctly to hit your shots is key.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Clay
Errors
Margins
Preparing
Shots
Surface
Correctly
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Volleying comes into grass-court tennis because it's a surface that favours the player who gets on the front foot. So if you've got an opportunity to come in and be aggressive, then finishing the points at the net is always going to be a good strategy.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Aggressive
Finishing
Strategy
Good Always Opportunity
Favours
Foot
Net
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There are too many British players who just aren't good enough. And that's not through lack of effort. But in terms of getting to the top 100, and getting into Wimbledon on their ranking, I feel as though there are too many players who just aren't good enough.
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Ranking
Wimbledon
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It's always fun catching up with the other players because so many of them were really good mates when I was playing on the main tour. The thing you miss when you give up is that camaraderie that you experienced because, for 35 weeks of the year, it really is a travelling circus.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Camaraderie
Catching
Circus
Mates
Good Always Fun
Good Fun Always
Travelling
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The players should appreciate how lucky they are with the opportunities they've got, and they've got to get out there and maximise that. That's what success is about and unfortunately in British tennis there are too many people over the years who haven't maximised their potential.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Success Is
Too Many People
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For a few years after I stopped playing people would ask me how I was coping with retirement and there would often be a slightly worried tone to their voice. But I always answered the question the same way: that if I knew retirement was going to be this good I would have quit a long time ago.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Coping
Long Time Ago
Retirement
Tone
Time Good Me
Time Good Always
Answered
Quit
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During rallies, it's always crucial to make Nadal cover the whole width of the court. He likes to camp out in his backhand corner, spearing that big off-forehand diagonally across the court. So the backhand down the line is a vital shot, because it moves Nadal out of his most favoured position.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Crucial
Width
Corner
Rallies
Vital
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When you see players coming into the new season with injuries and already carrying strapping on various parts of their bodies in January, then it only serves to highlight how hard the sport is and how demanding the schedule can be. There really isn't an off-season and that's the nature of the beast.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Beast
January
Off Season
Bodies
Carrying
Demanding
Highlight
Injuries
New Season
Schedule
Various Parts
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Yes, there are times where I might play one bad service game a set. If you look at Sampras, he might play one slightly suspect service game every three sets. So to beat someone like that you've obviously got to be right on top of your game. I've basically got to get rid of that in my game so it makes me very difficult to beat.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Look Game Me
Rid
Suspect
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