Philip Henning


Philip Barry Henning is a South African tennis player.
He has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 307 achieved on 1 December 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 472 achieved on 28 July 2025.
Henning represents South Africa at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 2–2.

Career

Juniors

In May 2017, Henning won his first ITF junior singles title at the G4 in Windhoek, Namibia. Henning has won 6 ITF junior titles in 2017 and 3 in 2018. In October 2018, Henning represented South Africa at the Youth Olympic Games.
As a junior, Henning reached a career-high combined ranking of No. 35 in the ITF's world junior rankings.
As a junior, he compiled a singles win–loss record of 93–36.
Junior Grand Slam results - Singles:
Australian Open: 1R, 3R

French Open: 1R

Wimbledon: 1R

US Open: 2R
Junior Grand Slam results - Doubles:
Australian Open: 1R, QF

French Open: 1R

Wimbledon: 1R

US Open: 1R

Junior singles titles (9)

Legend
Grand Slam
Grade A
Grade B
Grade 1–5

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Winner1.6 May 2017Windhoek, NamibiaHard

University

Philip enrolled at the University of Georgia in January 2019, joining the Bulldogs men's tennis team mid-season. He consistently ranked nationally in singles and doubles throughout his college career, earning multiple All-SEC honors and was twice named SEC Player of the Week. In his final year, he earned ITA Southeast Regional Senior Player of the Year and reached the finals of the ITA All-American Championships in singles.

Senior

Philip mainly competes on the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour and the ATP Challenger Tour. His best result on the Challenger Tour was reaching the quarterfinal of the 2024 Jinan Open in Jinan, China in August 2024, where he lost to the first seed Yuta Shimizu. He also reached the quarterfinal stage of the 2025 Côte d'Ivoire Open in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in April 2025, where he lost to the first seed Aziz Dougaz.

ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals

Singles: 2 (14–2)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0M15 Sharm El-Sheikh, EgyptWorld Tennis TourHarddts|Oct 2023

Doubles: 3 (2-1)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1M25 Austin, United StatesWorld Tennis TourHard