08 Jul '07 21:25>
Originally posted by wideawakeBut that is not his fault. He was our best tennis player in decades, was consistently in or around the top ten for a good part of his career, won a number of tournaments, and won £millions. I think he can be pretty happy with his career.
henman the most overated british sportsman of our day! even worse than christian daily!
Unfortunatley as he was only very good, rather than the best in the world he is seen as a failure by the British public who generally do not know much about tennis apart from a couple of weeks in July. He was a grass court serve and volley player good enough to get to the semi's of the French Open on clay (i.e. the one Federer can't win), and to be fair, if it was not for a very unfortunate rain delay he would have got to the final and Wimbledon and probably beaten Rafter.
Its just like the popular media wanted to own the cricketers when they won the Ashes, or how they are suddenly interested in motorsport now Hamilton looks like a winner. The way I look at it is that the media is little more than a bunch of Man U supporting glory hunters waiting to moan about how the world has come to an end as their team only finished second in the league