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Great Britain · born Colchester, 1996 · Wimbledon doubles champion with Harri Heliövaara in 2024 and 2026
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Wimbledon men's doubles titles, 2024 and 2026, both with Harri Heliövaara
1st
British man in the Open Era to win the Wimbledon men's doubles twice
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Summers spent recording courtside statistics at Wimbledon for IBM
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Challenger doubles titles with Julian Cash in 2022, a single-season record
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World doubles ranking, first reached on 8 June 2026
Henry Patten was born in Colchester, Essex, on 6 May 1996 and went to Ipswich School and Culford School. He played college tennis at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where he became the top-ranked NCAA doubles player, and then took a postgraduate year at Durham University. He turned professional in 2020.
In 2022 he and Julian Cash won ten Challenger titles, a record for one season, and he chose to concentrate on doubles. In April 2024 he began playing with the Finn Harri Heliövaara. They won his first ATP title in Marrakech that month, then Lyon, and in July won Wimbledon as an unseeded pair; before that fortnight he had never gone beyond the third round of a major.
The partnership went on to win the 2025 Australian Open, the China Open, the Paris Masters and the 2025 ATP Finals. Patten reached No. 3 in January 2025 and became joint world No. 1 with Heliövaara on 8 June 2026. A month later they won Wimbledon again, as top seeds. He made his Davis Cup debut in 2024 and in September 2026 won the clinching doubles rubber against Ecuador with Neal Skupski.
| Wimbledon 2024 final | Unseeded, with Heliövaara beat Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (10-8), 7-6 (11-9) after saving three match points, in 169 minutes and without a break of serve. His ranking rose 25 places to No. 17 |
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| Wimbledon 2026 final | As top seeds beat Marcelo Arévalo and Mate Pavić 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3); the pair won 41 of 45 first-serve points and neither side faced a break point |
| Wimbledon 2025 | Defending champions, beaten in the quarter-finals by his former partner Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool |
| Queen's Club 2026 | Runner-up with Heliövaara to Arévalo and Pavić, the pair they beat in the Wimbledon final three weeks later |
| Wimbledon | ||
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| 2024 | Men's doubles | with Harri Heliövaara |
| 2026 | Men's doubles | with Harri Heliövaara |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. † single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"I owe Harri my career, really."
The person behind the player.
Wimbledon, 2010s
While at college he spent two summers at Wimbledon logging courtside statistics for IBM, on the outside courts; the sharpest staff were moved to the show courts and he never was. Shifts were two hours on and 40 minutes off. "And then about four days in you just break down," he said. He was there in 2016, the year Andy Murray won the title.
Source: PA Media via Offaly Express, 2024On tour
He took chess up seriously during the pandemic and starts each day with Chess.com's daily puzzle, timed to wherever he is in the world. He prefers slow daily games he can play on his phone, finds blitz too stressful, and once went looking for, and beat, a Carlos Alcaraz bot. During Wimbledon 2024 he played four games and won two.
Source: Chess.com, 2024Asheville, 2018
At UNC Asheville he was the first player in the programme's history to be selected for the singles draw of the NCAA championships.
Source: WikipediaLondon, 2026
After the 2026 final he said of Heliövaara: "he took a chance on me and it turned out to be the best decision he ever made".
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