{"id":629239,"date":"2026-06-09T13:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629239\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:18:13","slug":"former-ipswich-school-pupil-henry-patten-now-world-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629239\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ipswich School pupil Henry Patten now World Number One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Henry Patten, who attended Ipswich School when he was younger, played in the final of Roland Garros on Saturday alongside his partner Harri Heliovaara from Finland in the Men&#8217;s Doubles.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They lost to defending champions Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos, however, 6-4 6-2.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This result means that no British man has lifted the Men&#8217;s Doubles trophy since 1933.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Henry Patten celebrates his victory with Harri Heliovaara at WImbledon (Image: PA)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipswichstar.co.uk\/news\/26165692.former-ipswich-school-students-tennis-rise-continues-french-open\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Patten and his partner<\/a>, however, will have the consolation of being ranked joint World Number One in the ATP Rankings, dethroning Brit Neal Skupski.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Patten and Haliovaara were seeking a fifth title of the season and a third grand slam after winning Wimbledon in 2024 and the Australian Open last year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 30-year-old former Ipswich student, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s the first time we have ever made a Roland Garros final, so that&#8217;s a big positive.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Patten said that being World Number One, being the fifth British man to top the rankings in the doubles in the last decade, was &#8220;something to definitely be proud of&#8221; and it&#8217;s &#8220;an amazing achievement&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henry Patten, who attended Ipswich School when he was younger, played in the final of Roland Garros on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-629239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}