2022-23 Men's Tennis Roster
Philip Henning
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Fifth Year
- Hometown:
- Bloemfontein, South Africa
- High School:
- Grey College
2022-23 (Redshirt Senior): Earned 2023 All-SEC First Team Honors and ITA Southeast Regional Senior Player of the Year ... Was awarded an at-large selection into the 2023 NCAA Singles Championship ... Closed a fantastic fall season as the No. 10 singles player in the final fall ITA rankings and earned a career-best ranking of No. 8 on Feb. 8 ... Tied for 15th on the program's career doubles wins rankings with 89 and tied for 17th with teammate Blake Croyder on the career combined wins list with 191 ... Played every match on court two, where he held a 17-7 record and went 23-13 in singles overall ... Second on the team in ranked singles wins with 14 ... Manned court two in doubles with Teodor Giusca, where they went 14-11 ... Finished as the singles runner-up of the ITA All-American Championships, falling to his teammate Ethan Quinn in the title match ... Made the doubles finals at the ITA Southeast Regional with Trent Bryde, finishing as the runner-ups ... Earned a spot at the ITA Fall Nationals event in both singles and doubles after advancing to the singles finals at the ITA All-American Championships and doubles finals of the ITA Southeast Regional ... Began the season by picking up five consecutive wins over opponents ranked in the top-40, including three in the top-20 ... Started the fall with the highest doubles ranking on the team at No. 18 along with teammate Trent Bryde ... Concluded fall season with a 6-2 singles record, going 5-1 against ranked opponents and the two losses coming against No. 1 Quinn and No. 6 Andrew Fenty (Michigan) ... Finished fall with 4-4 overall doubles record.
2021-22 (Senior): Earned First Team All-SEC honors ... Received bid to both the NCAA Singles & Doubles Championships with Trent Bryde ... Punched the Bulldogs' ticket to the ITA National Team Indoors by claiming the match-clinching win over South Florida …Defeated Kentucky’s 16th-ranked Gabriel Diallo 6-4, 6-3 for his highest-ranked singles win … Notched Georgia’s second-best singles records of the season, going 25-12 overall, 16-9 in dual matches and 8-2 against conference opponents … Set career highs in single-season wins in singles and dual-match wins at 24 and 16 respectively ... Defeated Denver's No.123 James Davis 7-6(4), 6-4 in Singles NCAA Tournament Round of 64 and reached the Round of 32 for the first time ... Ranked as high as No. 23 in the ITA national singles rankings and entered the season ranked at No. 15 in the ITA’s preseason singles rankings … Advanced to the quarterfinals of the ITA Southeast Regional Championship … Formed Georgia’s No.2 doubles pair with Bryde that went 14-9 overall, 12-9 in dual matches and 6-5 against conference opponents …Ranked as high as No. 14 in the ITA national doubles rankings with his partner Bryde … Also played doubles with Hamish Stewart and the pair found success early in the season … Stewart and Henning reached the Round of 16 at the ITA All-American after taking down the top-seeded doubles pair in the first round … The two were ranked as high as No. 42 in the ITA national doubles rankings ... Made the UGA Athletic Director's Honor Roll, which honors student-athletes with a 3.5 GPA or better ... Member of SEC Academic Honor Roll.
2020-21 (Junior): Earned Second-Team All-SEC honors ... Named SEC Player of the Week on April 14 ... Led the Bulldogs in singles wins with 19, including 14 in dual-match play … Ranked No. 19 in ITA singles … Won seven of his last nine singles matches and recorded three singles wins over nationally-ranked opponents … He and finished the NCAA first and second rounds undefeated in doubles at the No. 3 court … The duo of Henning and Erik Grevelius 14-5 dual record led Georgia in wins … Finished 3-2 against ranked double opponents …Ranked No. 18 in the ITA preseason singles rankings and No. 20 in doubles with Blake Croyder ... Ended the fall campaign 5-4 in singles and 2-8 in doubles.
2019-20 (Sophomore): Named 2020 ITA All-American ... Finished the 2020 dual season as Georgia’s highest-ranked singles player at No. 11 ... Named SEC Player of the Week on March 4 ... Clinched Georgia’s win over third-ranked Ohio State with a win on court two against seventh-ranked player in the nation, John NcNally ... Tied UGA in overall wins with freshman Erik Grevelius at 19 each ... Henning and sophomore Blake Croyder ended the dual season on a seven-match win streak in doubles, finishing 9-1... The pair ranked No. 26 in the last ITA doubles rankings ... Ended the fall season ranked No. 16 with Croyder ... Recorded 11 singles wins in the fall, including four over nationally-ranked opponents ... Advanced to the Round of 16 at the 2019 ITA Fall National Championships in singles after defeating 79th-ranked Zeke Clark (Illinois) in straight sets ... Finished with 10 combined singles and doubles wins at the ITA All-America Championships ... Defeated the No. 31 player in the country to advance to the 2019 Southern Intercollegiate finals ... Swiftly defeated Florida's No. 3 overall seed Johannes Ingildsen and Brian Berdusco, 6-1, at the Southern Intercollegiate with Croyder ... Was ranked No. 81 in ITA preseason singles rankings heading into the fall 2019 campaign ... Earned a spot on the 2020 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll and as a 2020 ITA Scholar-Athlete.
Before Georgia: Career-high ITF ranking of No. 35 and an ATP world ranking of 1608 ... Was member of South Africa’s Davis Cup team ... Won seven ITF junior titles in 2017 and three in 2018 ... Participated in several Grand Slam events including the French Open and Australian Open ... Was among the recipients of the International Tennis Federation’s (ITF) first-ever International Junior Player Grants ... Finished in the doubles quarterfinals of the Australian Open in 2017.
Personal: Born Nov. 10, 2000 ... Son of Gerard and Carlien Henning ... Majoring in Computer Science.
