Worst racquet smash

It has to be Tim Henman's breakage when he lost to Mark Philippoussis. Henman is a church mouse on the court

It has to be Tim Henman's breakage when he lost to Mark Philippoussis. Henman is a church mouse on the court. Usually his mum and dad are watching and maybe his old school headmaster too. Who knows? Breaking his racquet on his shoe was so aggressively out of character, we thought: "this is a good omen for next year."

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