Henry Billington (12 November 1908 – 29 November 1980) was a British amateur
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player, and the maternal grandfather of
Tim Henman
Timothy Henry Henman (born 6 September 1974) is a British former professional tennis player. Henman played a serve-and-volley style of tennis. He was the first British man to reach the singles semifinals of Wimbledon since Roger Taylor in th ...
.
Billington competed at
Wimbledon between 1948 and 1951, and also participated in the
Davis Cup on three occasions.
His other career singles highlights include winning the
Angmering-on-Sea Open two times (1937-38).
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1908 births
1980 deaths
English male tennis players
People from Newbury, Berkshire
British male tennis players
Tennis people from Wiltshire
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