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Wed 06 Jun 2007Hill still alive to sound of HenmanTennis: For the stoic who prefers the quiet life but has been asked by an entire nation to shoulder the conquering of Everest every summer, Tim Henman is a real party animal.Give him a tennis fundamentalist, a dedicated claycourt player who has missed four of the previous five Wimbledons, and the grasscourt maestro Henman turns it into a swinging marathon.