#Tim Henman

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From Tom’s (!!!) IG stories.

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Andy talking about starting out on the tour, the locker room being "a bit of a scary place", and remembering the players who were nice to him as a young player coming up (namely Jonas Björkman, Tim Henman, Andre Agassi, Brad Gilbert and "the vast majority of players") as well as the "idols of yours, who you've watched on the TV and yeah, they're being... pretty horrible to you."

source: TennisChannel

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oh it's my boy Tim's birthday!!! Happy 50th Tim!!!!

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🎾 The Tim Henman Foundation held a Non-Stop Tennis Weekend with celebrities like #TomHiddleston supporting the cause of raising £100k towards increasing programme delivery for disadvantaged youth

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why is the interview with Jack and Henners so cute?

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#virtuatennis3 #virtuatennis #timhenman #playstation3 #ps3 #keepfronting

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Tim Henman Foundation on IG on 22 December 2023:

[1]: 🎾DAY 2 of our Non-Stop Tennis Weekend and Tim is ready to go! First up to join him on court - @twhiddleston 😄

Thank you for all your donations so far - it’s why everyone is here today - Please help us exceed our target and reach £100k which would enable us to increase programme delivery for disadvantaged young people.

£50 can provide essential support for a whole year.

✨Stay tuned for some familiar faces on court and some great tennis

DONATE TODAY ➡️ by visiting the link in our bio

[2]: He may be sore after 12 hours solid play yesterday, but the support for Tim just keeps coming - welcome @beargrylls !

Huge thanks to all our guest players and supporters

And to everyone who is donating and helping to raise money to fund vital THF projects supporting vulnerable & disadvantaged young people

Please DONATE ➡️ by visiting the link in our bio so we can help more young people

[3]: Help us smash £100K!

Tim and all our players are serving for kids this weekend, raising money to fund vital THF projects to support vulnerable & disadvantaged young people

Please DONATE ➡️ by visiting the link in our bio so we can help more young people

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think (harry/ginny) | a microfic

day 13 of @hinnymicrofic | prompt: think

He showers quick, tries to scrub the train off him. Snorts at the sight of Vernon’s large bottle of hair-thickening shampoo. Having stared at his uncle’s head all the way back from London, he reckons Vernon’s due a refund.

There's some lurid deodorant of Dudley's - hair gel, too, looks cheap and shit. He feels a stab of pity for whichever poor girl his cousin’s trying to scrub up for these days. Dudley trying to pull, he thinks with a laugh, Christ. But thoughts of pulling lead to thoughts of girls, which lead, inevitably, to thoughts of Ginny.

He shoves the hair gel back on the shelf. Adds Dudley pulling to the don’t think about it list he’d started making on the train, somewhere around the Cumbrian border, when Ron had offered him a Caramel Kappa, Ginny’s favourite, and he’d wanted to throw up all over the chess board.

The Dursleys had waited all of two seconds after he’d slammed the car boot shut before speeding off to dinner at some miserable gastropub off the M3. Suits him fine, wants to be alone. He stabs a fork through the plastic film of his ready-meal, makes sure to puncture the yellow reduced sticker Petunia's left on for his benefit, and watches the bright white of the mashed potato atop the shepherd’s pie whirling around in the microwave. 

You know, it’s made from real shepherd, he’d said to Ginny once. That’s such a dad joke, she’d said, and he’d said I wouldn’t know and she’d said Potter you get one dead dad joke a day and you already used today’s up at breakfast. Shepherd’s pie is on the don’t think about it list, then, he thinks, just before he burns his fingers sliding the ready meal onto a tray. Probably best add cottage pie, too, same idea. Maybe all savoury pies, play it safe.

He flops down on the sofa, feet up on the coffee table, eats straight from the hot plastic as he flicks through channels. The nine o'clock news is all budget this, Hong Kong that, Tim Henman out at Wimbledon. The nine o’clock news is not Dumbledore's dead, Snape murdered him, there’s a war on, Harry Potter's dropped out of school to go hunt bits of Voldemort's dismembered soul. 

Dropped out of school, he thinks. Scandalous, delinquent. What d'you reckon? he asks the Ginny in his head. Harry Potter, troubled dropout? Do anything for you? The Ginny in his head laughs. It’d be fun if she were here, he thinks, curled up next to him on this ugly sofa, taking the piss out of Petunia’s cushion covers and Dudley’s wrestling trophies. Imagines taking her up to his bedroom, pointing out the lamp Dobby whacked himself around the head with. But then the Ginny in his head looks at him and says I never really gave up on you and I knew this would happen in the end, and it all bursts, shatters into a hundred dusty pieces.

He chucks the rest of the meal in the bin, adds dropping out of school to the stupid list. Might as well add the budget, Hong Kong and Tim Henman, why not.

Turns off the telly, goes upstairs and lies on his bed, fully-clothed, staring up at the ceiling, because on the walk from the living room to his bedroom the list has expanded to include his trunk (train, Hogwarts, Ginny), his jumper (still smells a bit like her on the left arm, pathetic), and Hedwig (how does it feel knowing your owl prefers me, Potter?).

He stares out of the window for a while, eyes next door's new extension, which sort of works - ugly nothing suburbia - until he remembers the twins and Ron at the window in a flying Ford Anglia, zooming him off to the Burrow where a little red headed girl is blushing and sticking her elbow in the butter dish and god, this really is shit, isn't it, they weren't lying. She knew then, of course she did. He's never been good at thinking of nothing, has he, and he's thought about her as he falls asleep every day since about October, so what chance does he have now?

He's dreading the dreams the most, knows they'll be unbearable. Almost hopes he dreams of lockets and green light and dead headmasters. Can't be worse than bright brown eyes, freckles on a bottom lip (how do you even get freckles on your bottom lip, Gin? Don't be jealous of my freckles, Potter, just because your skin's so boring), the smell of her hair (what do you mean my hair smells? What is that supposed to mean? Why are you laughing?) and the sound of her laugh and her gasps and the sound of her breathing, soft, lying beside him under the cloak on the lakeshore. Looking down under the table at dinner, seeing her thigh next to his on the bench, hand on his knee, body drawn to his, magnets, magic.

When he wakes groggily the next day - crick in his neck, still in his jeans - his first thought is: he's overslept. He’s missed Ginny on her way down to breakfast, going to be late for Potions, fucked it.

But no, of course not. There’s no Ginny, no breakfast, no Potions. Might still have fucked it, though, who's to say. Don't, he tells himself, as he heads for the bathroom to scrub the night off him, just don't think about it.

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I had no idea Tim was doing this! Jesus Christ his poor feet

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Tim Henman Foundation.

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New Tom Hiddleston after playing tennis 🎾 at the Tim Henman Foundation!

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Peter Carter and Peter Lundgren in Federer's box at Basel, 1999. He beat Martin Damm (🇨🇿) and Alexander Popp (🇩🇪) to make it to the quarter finals, in which he was beaten by Tim Henman (🇬🇧)

Commentator's translation under the cut:

Here in the box, they are the two coaches of Roger Federer. The gentleman in the white shirt who is speaking right now, that's Peter Carter, and the gentleman next to him is Peter Lundgren. They are both employed as coaches by Swiss Tennis, but they mainly look after Roger Federer. [They] do a very good job there, and you can see that not only with Roger Federer but also at the lower levels.