British Wimbledon champion Henry Patten has been fined £9,200 by Wimbledon after he allegedly directed verbal abuse at a member of workers.
The 29-year-old Brit is the reigning males’s doubles champion alongside his companion Harri Heliovaara at this yr’s Championships.
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Patten has topped the checklist of 12 fines which have been revealed by the All England Membership for the primary week of the event.
His $12,500 [£9.2k] advantageous has adopted an off-site incident that occurred on June 29 the place he’s alleged to have ‘verbally abused workers’.
In an announcement by way of the Metro, he stated: “The subsequent day, I spoke to the event referee and event director concerning this incident.
“On the 2nd of July I obtained a letter informing me that I had been fined and on the identical day I responded interesting the choice as a consequence of inaccuracies and procedural failures within the course of.
“Regardless of this resolution being beneath enchantment, I’m disillusioned that Wimbledon thought it applicable to reveal this advantageous to the media with out indicating my enchantment which creates an unfair and inaccurate notion of the incident.
“As this resolution is topic to enchantment, I’ve been suggested not to discuss this in any element at this level.
“At this stage I’ll merely say that I don’t consider that there was a full or correct investigation, nor has Wimbledon acted moderately or pretty with due course of.
“I’m disillusioned that because the defending male doubles champion that I’m having to handle this matter at this level fairly than concentrating on enjoying tennis.
“I’ll remark additional as soon as the enchantment has been concluded.”
Patten and Heliovaara gained their first Grand Slam doubles title at Wimbledon in 2024.
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Wimbledon 2025 fines
Henry Patten – $12,500/£9,200 – Verbally abusing workers
Adrian Mannarino – $6,000/£4,400 – Unsportsmanlike conduct
Elena Pridankina – $5,000/£3,672 – Unsportsmanlike conduct
Zizou Bergs – $4,000/£2,938 – Audible obscenity
Halley Baptiste – $4,000/£2,938 – Audible obscenity
Varvara Gracheva – $4,000/£2,938 – Abuse of rackets/tools
Anna Kalinskaya – $4,000/£2,938 – Unsportsmanlike conduct
Jule Niemeier – $2,500/£1,835 – Unsportsmanlike conduct
Alex Bolt – $2,000/£1,468 – Audible obscenity
Chloe Paquet – $2,000/£1,468 – Audible obscenity
Colton Smith – $2,000/£1,468 – Abuse of rackets/tools
Luca Van Assche – $2,000/£1,468 – Unsportsmanlike conduct
They went on to win this yr’s Australian Open by beating Italian duo Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori.
After wins in opposition to Dan Evans and Henry Searle, and Billy Harris and Marcus Willis, they reached this yr’s third spherical.
Nonetheless, a walkover in opposition to Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Jordan Thompson confirmed a second consecutive quarter-final look.
British pair Julian Money and Lloyd Glasspool await on Wednesday.
Patten’s advantageous is just not the one controversial incident from Wimbledon in 2025.
Match chiefs had been compelled to apologise on Sunday after the brand new computerized line-calling expertise failed.
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The last-16 girls’s singles conflict between Sonay Kartal and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova noticed a ball land a foot out and not using a name.
Three calls had been missed throughout the match, with line judges not getting used for the primary time in Wimbledon’s 148-year historical past.