Philip Henning

Philip Barry Henning (born 10 November 2000) is a South African tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 250 achieved on 8 June 2026 and a doubles ranking of No. 449 achieved on 24 August 2026.

Henning represents South Africa at the Davis Cup, where he has a singles W/L record of 10/6.

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:

French Open: 1R (2018) Wimbledon: 1R (2018) US Open: 2R (2018)

Junior Grand Slam results - Doubles:

Australian Open: 1R (2017), QF (2018) French Open: 1R (2018) Wimbledon: 1R (2018) US Open: 1R (2018)

Junior singles titles (9)

Legend (singles)Grand Slam (0)Grade A (0)Grade B (1)Grade 1–5 (8)

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 (peaking at Nr.8) and doubles throughout his college career, earning multiple All-SEC honors (First and Second Team) 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 2022 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.

Henning won his first ATP Challenger singles title at the 2026 Centurion Challenger II, defeating Alexander Donski in the final.

ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals

Singles: 2 (16–3) LegendATP Challenger (1–0)ITF World Tennis Tour (15–3)Finals by surfaceHard (15–1)Clay (1–2)

Doubles: 8 (3-5) Legend (doubles)ITF World Tennis Tour (2–1)Titles by surfaceHard (3–4)Clay (0–1)