‘Doubles is absolute carnage’: meet Henry Patten, GB’s unsung Wimbledon champion

Tennis is a ‘fun hobby’ for the doubles player looking to add to titles he won at Wimbledon and the Australian OpenIt’s slightly unusual to hear Henry Patten – along with Harri Heliövaara, reigning men’s doubles champion at Wimbledon and the Australian Open – call tennis a “fun hobby”. But then you spend time in his company and realise he is slightly unusual.Patten, 29, was not supposed to be a professional, never mind a grand slam winner. Though he played county level as a child, he enjoyed various sports as a teenager before a tennis scholarship to Culford School in Suffolk – “I don’t know how we weasled that!” – inspired him to attend college in North Carolina, where he read economics. Continue reading...

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