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Henry Patten
Patten at the 2023 Cary Challenger
Country (sports) United Kingdom
Born (1996-05-06) 6 May 1996 (age 28)
Colchester, United Kingdom
Height1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
Turned pro2020
PlaysLeft-handed (two-handed backhand)
CollegeUNC Asheville
Prize money$311,867
Singles
Career record0–0
Career titles0 Challenger, 1 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 462 (19 September 2022)
Doubles
Career record34–27
Career titles3
Highest rankingNo. 17 (15 July 2024)
Current rankingNo. 17 (15 July 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open2R (2023, 2024)
French Open3R (2024)
WimbledonW (2024)
US Open3R (2023)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon2R (2024)
Last updated on: 15 July 2024.

Henry Patten (born 6 May 1996) is a British professional tennis player. He has been ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) as high as world No. 17 in doubles, which he first achieved on 15 July 2024. He also attained his career-high singles ranking of world No. 462 in September 2022. Patten has won three career doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including one major title at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships, all alongside partner Harri Heliövaara.

He has also won 13 ATP Challenger doubles titles, 11 with Julian Cash. Ten of the titles came in 2022, a record for the most Challenger doubles titles accrued in a single season.[1][2]

Personal life

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Patten was born on 6 May 1996 in Manningtree, Essex, England. He attended Ipswich School and Culford School, before he enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where he played collegiate tennis.[3] He continued his postgraduate studies at Durham University (2019–2020).[4][5] During two of his university summer breaks, he worked for IBM as a courtside statistician at Wimbledon.[6][7]

Patten is also a chess enthusiast, often playing the game while on tour.[8]

College

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While at UNC Asheville, Patten became the No. 1 ranked NCAA doubles player and placed as high as No. 32 in singles.[8] In 2018 he was the first player in the history of his program to be selected for the singles draw of the NCAA Men's Tennis Championships.[9] At Durham he finished runner-up with Josip Krstanovic to fellow Durham students Julius Tverijonas and Or Ram-Harel in the 2019 BUCS Men's Doubles Championship.[10]

Career

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2022: Record Challenger titles in a season

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Patten won ten titles in 2022, breaking the record for most Challenger doubles titles in a single season with Julian Cash.[1]

2023: First ATP final, top 50, US Open third round

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Patten partnering with Julian Cash reached his first ATP semifinal at the 2023 Tata Open Maharashtra.

At the 2023 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships the pair Patten/Cash reached an ATP semifinal for a second time in the season and as a pair. Next they reached their first career final defeating Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela and Robert Galloway. They lost to Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell.[11] He reached the top 50 on 22 May 2023.

2024: Maiden ATP title, Wimbledon champion, top 20 debut

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In April, Patten won his maiden ATP title at the 2024 Grand Prix Hassan II partnering with new partner Harri Heliövaara, defeating second seeded Austrian duo of Alexander Erler and Lucas Miedler.[12][13] In May, Patten and Heliövaara defeated top seeds Andreas Mies and Neal Skupski in the final of the Turin Challenger.[14] Patten won his second title at the Lyon Open partnering also with Heliövaara. The duo defeated Albano Olivetti and Yuki Bhambri in the final.[15]

Patten and Heliövaara reached the final at Wimbledon, defeating Italian duo Andrea Vavassori and Simone Bolelli, Spanish duo Pedro Martínez and Jaume Munar, and then Marcelo Arévalo and Mate Pavić in the quarterfinals,[16][17] Neal Skupski and Michael Venus in the semifinals.[18][19] They defeated Australian duo Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell in the final, in a three-setter with three tiebreaks, saving three match points, to win their first Grand Slam title together.[20][21][22][23] As a result he moved 25 positions up to a new career-high doubles ranking of world No. 17 on 15 July 2024.

Doubles performance timeline

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Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Current through the 2024 Wimbledon Championships.

Tournament 2021 2022 2023 2024 SR W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A 2R 2R 0 / 2 2–2
French Open A A 1R 3R 0 / 2 2–1
Wimbledon A 1R A W 1 / 2 6–1
US Open A A 3R 0 / 1 2–1
Win–loss 0–0 0–1 3–3 9–2 0 / 6 6–5
Career statistics
Tournaments 0 2 10 12
Overall win–loss 0–0 0–2 9–10 9–12
Year-end ranking 774 69 69

Significant finals

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Grand Slam tournament finals

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Doubles: 1 (1 title)

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Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 2024 Wimbledon Grass Finland Harri Heliövaara Australia Max Purcell
Australia Jordan Thompson
6–7(7–9), 7–6(10–8), 7–6(11–9)

ATP career finals

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Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)

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Legend
Grand Slam (1–0)
ATP Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP 500 Series (0–0)
ATP 250 Series (2–2)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (2–2)
Grass (1–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Apr 2023 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, United States 250 Series Clay United Kingdom Julian Cash Australia Max Purcell
Australia Jordan Thompson
6–4, 4–6, [5–10]
Win 1–1 Apr 2024 Grand Prix Hassan II, Morocco 250 Series Clay Finland Harri Heliövaara Austria Alexander Erler
Austria Lucas Miedler
3–6, 6–4, [10–4]
Loss 1–2 Apr 2024 Romanian Open, Romania 250 Series Clay Finland Harri Heliövaara France Sadio Doumbia
France Fabien Reboul
3–6, 5–7
Win 2–2 May 2024 ATP Lyon Open, France 250 Series Clay Finland Harri Heliövaara India Yuki Bhambri
France Albano Olivetti
3–6, 7–6(7–4), [10–8]
Win 3–2 Jul 2024 Wimbledon Championships, United Kingdom Grand Slam Grass Finland Harri Heliövaara Australia Max Purcell
Australia Jordan Thompson
6–7(7–9), 7–6(10–8), 7–6(11–9)

ATP Challenger and ITF World Tennis Tour finals

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Singles: 4 (1–3)

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Legend
ATP Challenger (0–0)
ITF World Tennis Tour (1–3)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–2)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–1)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Oct 2021 M15 Ithaca, United States World Tennis Tour Hard United Kingdom Charles Broom 7–6(7–5), 3–6, 4–6
Win 1–1 Nov 2021 M15 Fayetteville, United States World Tennis Tour Hard United States Alfredo Perez 7–6(7–2), 6–3
Loss 1–2 Apr 2022 M25 Nottingham, United Kingdom World Tennis Tour Hard United States Brandon Holt 6–7(2–7), 5–7
Loss 1–3 Jul 2022 M25 Roehampton, United Kingdom World Tennis Tour Grass United Kingdom Toby Samuel 4-6, 7-6(10-8), 4-6

Doubles: 29 (21 titles, 8 runner-ups)

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Legend
ATP Challenger (13–5)
ITF World Tennis Tour (8–3)
Finals by surface
Hard (14–7)
Clay (4–0)
Grass (3–1)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Mar 2021 M15 Indore, India World Tour Hard United Kingdom Jonathan Binding Switzerland Luca Castelnuovo
Ukraine Eric Vanshelboim
6–2, 5–7, [9–11]
Win 1–1 Oct 2021 M15 Ithaca, United States World Tour Hard United Kingdom Charles Broom United States Eduardo Nava
United States Nathan Ponwith
7–6(8–6), 6–3
Loss 1–2 Nov 2021 M15 Fayetteville, United States World Tour Hard United Kingdom Charles Broom United States George Goldhoff
Czech Republic Tadeas Paroulek
4–6, 2–6
Win 2–2 Dec 2021 M15 Heraklion, Greece World Tour Hard United Kingdom Charles Broom Netherlands Sidane Pontjodikromo
Germany Kai Wehnelt
5–7, 6–2, [10–8]
Win 3–2 Feb 2022 M25 Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic
World Tour Hard Australia Rinky Hijikata Chinese Taipei Hsu Yu-hsiou
Chinese Taipei Wu Tung-lin
2–6, 7–6(7–4), [10–3]
Win 4–2 Mar 2022 M25 Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic
World Tour Hard United Kingdom Mark Whitehouse United States Colin Markes
United States Keegan Smith
6–4, 6–4
Loss 4–3 Mar 2022 M25 Calabasas, United States World Tour Hard United Kingdom Charles Broom South Korea Nam Ji-sung
South Korea Song Min-kyu
3–6, 6–7(4–7)
Win 5–3 Apr 2022 M25 Nottingham, United Kingdom World Tour Hard United Kingdom Julian Cash India Anirudh Chandrasekar
India Vijay Sundar Prashanth
6–1, 6–4
Win 6–3 May 2022 M25 Nottingham, United Kingdom World Tour Hard United Kingdom Julian Cash United Kingdom Charles Broom
United Kingdom Jan Choinski
7–6(7–5), 6–2
Win 7–3 May 2022 M25 Nottingham, United Kingdom World Tour Hard United Kingdom Julian Cash Australia Omar Jasika
Israel Edan Leshem
6–3, 5–7, [10–2]
Win 8–3 Jun 2022 Surbiton, United Kingdom Challenger Grass United Kingdom Julian Cash Kazakhstan Aleksandr Nedovyesov
Pakistan Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
4–6, 6–3, [11–9]
Loss 8–4 Jun 2022 Nottingham, United Kingdom Challenger Grass United Kingdom Julian Cash United Kingdom Jonny O'Mara
United Kingdom Ken Skupski
6–3, 2–6, [14–16]
Win 9–4 Jun 2022 Ilkley, United Kingdom Challenger Grass United Kingdom Julian Cash India Ramkumar Ramanathan
Australia John-Patrick Smith
7–5, 6–4
Win 10–4 Jul 2022 M25 Roehampton, United Kingdom World Tour Grass United Kingdom Julian Cash Switzerland Luca Castelnuovo
Tunisia Skander Mansouri
walkover
Win 11–4 Aug 2022 Granby, Canada Challenger Hard United Kingdom Julian Cash France Jonathan Eysseric
New Zealand Artem Sitak
6–3, 6–2
Win 12–4 Sep 2022 Columbus, United States Challenger Hard (i) United Kingdom Julian Cash United Kingdom Charles Broom
Germany Constantin Frantzen
6–2, 7–5
Win 13–4 Oct 2022 Fairfield, United States Challenger Hard United Kingdom Julian Cash India Anirudh Chandrasekar
India Vijay Sundar Prashanth
6–3, 6–1
Win 14–4 Oct 2022 Las Vegas, United States Challenger Hard United Kingdom Julian Cash Germany Constantin Frantzen
United States Reese Stalder
6–4, 7–6(7–1)
Win 15–4 Oct 2022 Charlottesville, United States Challenger Hard (i) United Kingdom Julian Cash United States Alex Lawson
New Zealand Artem Sitak
6–2, 6–4
Win 16–4 Nov 2022 Drummondville, Canada Challenger Hard (i) United Kingdom Julian Cash United Kingdom Arthur Fery
United Kingdom Giles Hussey
6–3, 6–3
Win 17–4 Nov 2022 Andria, Italy Challenger Hard (i) United Kingdom Julian Cash Italy Francesco Forti
Italy Marcello Serafini
6–7(3–7), 6–4, [10–4]
Win 18–4 Dec 2022 Maia, Portugal Challenger Clay (i) United Kingdom Julian Cash Portugal Nuno Borges
Portugal Francisco Cabral
6–3, 3–6, [10–8]
Win 19–4 Apr 2023 Sarasota, United States Challenger Clay United Kingdom Julian Cash Argentina Guido Andreozzi
Argentina Guillermo Durán
7–6(7–4), 6–4
Loss 19–5 Aug 2023 Stanford, United States Challenger Hard United Kingdom Julian Cash Ecuador Diego Hidalgo
Colombia Cristian Rodríguez
7–6(7–1), 4–6, [8-10]
Loss 19–6 Oct 2023 Orléans, France Challenger Hard (i) Australia John-Patrick Smith Germany Constantin Frantzen
Germany Hendrik Jebens
6–7(5–7), 6–7(12–14)
Loss 19–7 Nov 2023 Bergamo, Italy Challenger Hard (i) Portugal Francisco Cabral United States Evan King
United States Brandon Nakashima
4–6, 6–7(1–7)
Loss 19–8 Mar 2024 Phoenix, United States Challenger Hard Australia Rinky Hijikata France Sadio Doumbia
France Fabien Reboul
3–6, 2–6
Win 20–8 Apr 2024 Madrid, Spain Challenger Clay Finland Harri Heliövaara Argentina Guido Andreozzi
Mexico Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela
7–5, 7–6(7–1)
Win 21–8 May 2024 Turin, Italy Challenger Clay Finland Harri Heliövaara Germany Andreas Mies
United Kingdom Neal Skupski
6–3, 6–3

References

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