Come on, Henman

Nothing like listening to BBC audio commentary on a tennis game where Henman is nearly down and out, but showing some signs of fighting back. He is pitted against Argentinian Guillermo Coria at the Roland Garros French Open's semi-final. Currently, the scorecard reads Henman at 6-3 4-6 0-6 3-3 to Coria with Coria serving in the fourth game with the score at deuce. Up until the second point Henman won, the commentators were basking in typically wry British self-effacing humour about the fatalism of Henman's impending defeat and how he shall always flatter to deceive. There was talk about traffic on the M-62 but all of a sudden the Henman serve-and-volley starts to work. Now, there is nothing but effusive praise for him and his belligerence, how he is the complete fighter and how this shall rank as the biggest comeback of all time notwithstanding a million other more exhilarating ones, Graf's against Novotna when the latter was serving for the match some years ago at Wimbledon not being the least exciting of them.

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