Less than a year after having broken out on the tennis scene with a Double Wimbledon championshipFormer UNC Asheville tennis player Henry Patten added to his trophy business on Saturday by winning the title at Australian Open.
PaceWho is from Manningtree, Essex, United Kingdom, and his partner Harri Heliovaara from Finland eliminated the n ° 3 of the Italians Simone Bolleli and Andrea Vavassori, 6-7 (16-18), 7-6 (7-5 ), 6-3.
Patten and Heliovaaara, who were seeded n ° 6 in the tournament, won Wimbledon together in July 2024 as the first pair of doubles not cut since 2014.
Patten graduated from Asheville in 2019, where he was a great player of the year three times in the south and finished with a record of 60-9 in simple.
As a senior in the fall of 2018, Patten and double Oli Nolan won a national championship at the Oracle ITA national autumn championships. The pair would be classified n ° 1 on a national scale for three surveys by the Oracle Intercollegate Tennis Association, before falling to n ° 2 during most of spring.
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Patten became the first bulldog at reach the NCAA tournament When he was junior, going around 32 before falling to Timo Stodder from Tennesse, 6-2, 6-3.
Patten is now halfway through the big career, the term for winning the four major sport tournaments. Patten will have a chance to add a third major title to Roland-Garros from May 25 to June 8 before defending its Wimbledon title at the end of June.
Evan Gerike is the sports journalist at Asheville Citizen Times. Send him an email to [email protected] or follow it on X, formerly Twitter, @Evangerike.
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