{"id":688866,"date":"2026-07-13T07:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688866\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T07:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:35:08","slug":"henry-patten-promises-to-show-harri-heliovaara-around-manningtree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688866\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Patten promises to show Harri Heliovaara around Manningtree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wimbledon champion Henry Patten has promised to show his doubles partner the “beautiful” countryside in his Essex hometown.<\/p>\n

Patten said he was “really proud” to call Manningtree – known as England’s smallest town – home.<\/p>\n

The former Ipswich schoolboy joked about a statue being built by the River Stour in his honour, moments after clinching the men’s doubles title<\/a> with Harri Heliovaara on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Heliovaara said while he loved being by the water, he wanted “to stay far away from that statue”.<\/p>\n

The world number ones have won three major titles, including Wimbledon twice, in as many years since joining forces in 2024.<\/p>\n

They beat El Salvador’s Marcelo Arevalo and Croatia’s Mate Pavic 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-3) in front of a jubilant Centre Court crowd on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Asked where he wanted his statue, Patten said: “If I was lucky enough to have a statue put up it would be in Manningtree, along The Walls somewhere. Maybe on the estuary.<\/p>\n

“It’s just a beautiful place and somewhere that I’m really, really proud to call home.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wimbledon champion Henry Patten has promised to show his doubles partner the “beautiful” countryside in his Essex hometown.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-688866","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\/688866","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=688866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}