British tennis star handed largest fine of this year's Wimbledon after verbally abusing staff in explosive training row - as All England Tennis Club announces full list of 12 punished players
Henry Patten, a doubles specialist and Wimbledon champion, has been fined £9,000.
The 29-year-old has to pay the penalty after verbally abusing staff as they tried to cut his practice session short.
Patten won last year's Wimbledon doubles title as well as the 2025 Australian Open crown alongside Harri Heliövaara of Finland.
Victory Down Under earlier this year saw Patten and Heliövaara reach as high as number three in the world doubles rankings.
Patten and Heliövaara have made their way into the last 16 of this year's men's doubles at Wimbledon.
They will play against France's Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Australia's Jordan Thompson on Monday.
Patten and Heliövaara, who won the men's doubles title at Wimbledon last year, have earned £43,750 between them in prize money so far in this year's competition, according to The Mirror.
That figure will increase to £87,500 if they win in the next round on Monday.
All told, Wimbledon announced 12 sanctions for various misdemeanours in the first week of the Championships.
French player Adrian Mannarino has been handed a fine of £4,400 for unsportsmanlike conduct during his second-round victory over compatriot Valentin Royer.
Russian Elena Pridankina has been fined £3,672 for unsportsmanlike conduct after she lost in the first round of the doubles draw to Jelena Ostapenko and Hsieh Su-wei.
There are four players who have been ordered to pay up £2,938.
Zizou Bergs and Halley Baptiste have been punished for an audible obscenity, Varvara Gracheva for an abuse of rackets or equipment and Anna Kalinskaya has also been punished for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Jule Niemeier has also been handed a fine of £1,835 for unsportsmanlike conduct while competing during qualifying.
Alex Bolt, Chloe Paquet, Colton Smith and Luca Van Assche have all been told to part with £1,468 for various different offences.
In total, after fining the 12 players so far in this year's competition, Wimbledon has taken in £36,715.
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