Lee Childs (born 6 November 1982, in
Yeovil
Yeovil ( ) is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the district of South Somerset, England. The population of Yeovil at the last census (2011) was 45,784. More recent estimates show a population of 48,564. It is close to Somer ...
) is a retired British
tennis
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player from England.
Following match victories in 2000, Childs was hailed as "the future of British tennis" and a successor to
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 the ...
and
Greg Rusedski
Gregory Rusedski (born 6 September 1973) is a British and Canadian former tennis player. He was the British No. 1 in 1997, 1999 and 2006, and reached the ATP ranking of world No. 4 for periods from 6 October 1997 to 12 October 1997 and from 25 ...
.
At the
2003 Wimbledon Championships
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, he famously defeated
Nikolay Davydenko
Nikolay Vladimirovich Davydenko ( rus, Никола́й Влади́мирович Давыде́нко ; born 2 June 1981) is a Ukrainian-born Russian former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 3 i ...
in the first round in 5 sets. The score was 2–6, 7–6
(2), 1–6, 7–6
(5), 6–2. He then lost in the next round to a 17-year-old
Rafael Nadal
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in straight sets, 6–2, 6–4, 6–3.
Growing up, Lee went to Pawlett Primary School. He got his passion for tennis from his head teacher Chris Vincent.
Junior Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 1 (1 title)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 6 (2–4)
Doubles: 12 (5–7)
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1982 births
Living people
English male tennis players
People from Yeovil
US Open (tennis) junior champions
British male tennis players
Tennis people from Somerset
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles
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