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by GaryFromWirral - 9th Jan 2024 6:30pm
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 I like what they were saying on Mock the Week about him..... Frankie Boyle: "Let's not forget, he was once fourth in the world and won 6 grand slams. I think thats a great achievement........for a totally shit player!"
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Well just goes to show how much Frankie Boyle knows then when h can't even get the guys achievements right...  Piers Newbery, a BBC Sport correspondant, has written a good article at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A26228135After more than a decade he will no longer have to carry British tennis on his shoulders, or see himself portrayed in the national press as a donkey, among other things.
The truth is that Henman had plenty of grit and won his fair share of tight matches, especially at Wimbledon, but in four of his six Grand Slam semi-finals he was comprehensively outplayed by the best player on the planet at the time.
He lost twice to Pete Sampras, once to Roger Federer and once to Lleyton Hewitt - all world number one - as well as once to Guillermo Coria, the best clay-courter of the time. And then there was Goran Ivanisevic.
He was one of the very best players in the world for the best part of a decade, but never the best, and barring the occasional Petr Korda or Richard Krajicek, such players do not win Grand Slam titles. These snippets sum up how good a player he was, never the very best, but always battling alongside them. 
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Tries to edit the post to include this but the edit time ran out lmao. Here is one final quote which sums up the difference he made for the sport of Tennis in the UK and for the UK public: He brought an extra dimension to a truly great sporting event that those of us not around to see Virginia Wade win Wimbledon in 1977 had never experienced - that British people could play tennis as well as watch it.
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