Wimbledon champion slapped with four-figure fine after outburst as 12 players sanctioned

Doubles player Henry Patten has been stung with the biggest fine as Wimbledon announced sanctions against 12 players. Wimbledon officials have released a list of misdemeanours after the first week of the Grand Slam, naming and shaming those who have overstepped the line.

Patten tops the list, having been fined $12,500 (£9,180) for verbally abusing staff who tried to cut short his practice session. Patten is into the last 16 of the men’s doubles at the All England Club and will play alongside Finland’s Harri Heliövaara against the pairing of 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. That figure will increase to £87,500 if they progress on Monday, but Patten has already forfeited a significant chunk of that through his behaviour.

His fine comes in ahead of the $6,000 (£4,400) fine handed out to Adrian Mannarino for unsportsmanlike conduct in his second-round clash with Valentin Royer. Mannarino came through qualifying to reach the third round at Wimbledon, earning £152,000, before losing to Andrey Rublev.

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Elena Pridankina has been fined $5,000 (£3,672) for unsportsmanlike conduct during her first-round doubles defeat by Jelena Ostapenko and Hsieh Su-wei.

There are four players who have been docked $4,000 (£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 for unsportsmanlike conduct.

Jule Niemeier has been fined $2,500 (£1,835) for unsportsmanlike conduct in qualifying, while Alex Bolt, Chloe Paquet, Colton Smith and Luca Van Assche have all surrendered $2,000 (£1,468) for a variety of misdemeanours.

That means Wimbledon has taken away $50,000 (£36,715) in total from 12 players, but the fines pale in comparison to those self-stylised bad boy of tennis Nick Kyrgios has racked up during his career.

“Look, I probably would have, in my entire career, man I’ve been hit with some big ones,” Kyrgios said a few years ago “I would say, I’d be approaching around 800 grand (Australian dollars) I reckon.” That totals over £400,000.

Back in 2019, the Australian was fined £90,000 and slapped with a suspended 16-week ban from the ATP Tour after committing eight offences during a match with Karen Khachanov at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati.

He has a long disciplinary history at Wimbledon, too, where he has fallen foul of the famous all-white dress code. Kyrgios was fined £11,700 in 2022 – the year he reached the final – for wearing eye-catching trainers.

"I wore a red Jordan hat and red Jordans just walking out there," Kyrgios said. "Predominantly, you have to wear all white. I got fined about $16,000 for wearing a red hat and then my red Jordans."