Tim Henman<\/a> and after the Great Britain star had knocked out Sampras\u2019 conqueror, he quickly said something that would later be proved spot on. <\/p>\n![\"Roger](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-545532686-1024x593.jpg\")
Photo by Stephen White\/CameraSport via Getty ImagesThe warning Roger Federer gave Tim Henman after losing to him at Wimbledon<\/p>\n
Given that Federer was still making his way up the rankings after beating Sampras, nobody was really giving him a chance to win the tournament. <\/p>\n
Instead, the talk in England was centred around the draw opening up for Henman to finally reach a final and ultimately claim his first Grand Slam title. <\/p>\n
Henman was down to play wildcard Goran Ivanisevic in one semi-final, with Pat Rafter taking on Andre Agassi in the other. <\/p>\n
Federer was quizzed on whether 2001 would be Henman\u2019s year and it\u2019s fair to say that he perhaps didn\u2019t give the answer which the Great British public were hoping for. <\/p>\n
He said in his press conference: \u201cWell, it\u2019s going to be very tough, I think for him because, I mean, he had some tough matches. He had a five-setter \u2013 four setter now. He plays Goran now, who is very dangerous right now. First of all, he has to get through that one. But then, even tougher opponents are waiting for him. It\u2019s going to be very tough.<\/p>\n
Henman\u2019s golden opportunity was at Wimbledon in 2001<\/p>\n
Had Centre Court had a roof in 2001 it looks almost certain that Henman would have got himself into a Wimbledon final. <\/p>\n
After taking the third set 6-0 to go 2-1 up, Henman looked to be dominating a fatigued Ivanisevic but the rain came, the Croatian regrouped and the rest, as they say, is history. <\/p>\n
Henman lost in four Wimbledon semi-finals and finished his career heartbroken and never managing to get over the line when it came to the tournament. <\/p>\n
This particular tournament was absolutely his chance to win one but sadly, as he so often was, Federer proved to be right! <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roger Federer is a player who went there, saw it and got the t-shirt as a professional tennis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[6768,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-23157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-roger-federer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}