Tim Henman has still to go beyond the fourth round in any Grand Slam other than Wimbledon after suffering a straight sets defeat to unseeded Swede Jonas Bjorkman at the Australian Open in Melbourne today. Henman, highest remaining seed in the tournament after the second round, lost 2-6 6-7 6-4 with Bjorkman winning the second set tie-break 8/6 and going through to the quarter-finals on his fifth match point.
"I can't lay the blame anywhere else, can I?" Henman said. "I was the one who didn't execute the shots as I have been or as I should have done. It's pretty frustrating. I felt I was close to levelling things up (he served for the second set and then had set-point in the tie-break before losing it 8-6) and if I could have done that then it might have been a different story."
"But could-haves and should-haves and buts and ifs aren't much good. I'd given myself an opportunity, but I've now lost three years in a row in the fourth round here and that doesn't sit very well," Henman added. "I suppose in a week or so I'll try and take the positives out of this and try and look at the way that perhaps my game has improved."
Filed by Sinéad Kissane
