Wimbledon 2026: Henry Patten and Harri Heliovaara win second men’s doubles title after beating Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic | Tennis News

Britain’s Henry Patten and Finland’s Harri Heliovaara won their second Wimbledon men’s doubles title with a straight-sets victory.

World No 1s Patten and Heliovaara, who won the 2024 title, beat El Salvador’s Marcelo Arevalo and Croatia’s Mate Pavic 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-3) on Saturday, just hours after Britain’s Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid won their seventh wheelchair doubles title together.

Patten and Heliovaara have been doubles partners since the start of 2024 and also won the 2025 Australian Open.

“I owe Harri my career. When I started with Harri, he took a chance on me. It might be the best decision he’s ever made!” joked Patten.

“Our whole team who travel with us, our friends, family, and my fiancée especially who can’t be here today, she deserves a special mention!

“This is surreal. When we won the first title, we didn’t know if we would experience this again and we feel so lucky to be out here.”

Heliovaara added: “It’s unbelievable. These are the moments you dream of. To do it twice, I need to thank Henry for being the best partner in the world.”

As expected, the match was dominated by big serves and few opportunities to break each other with, remarkably, no break opportunities for the entire contest.

The ease at which both sides held serve meant a first set tie-break was required and an early break for Patten and Heliovaara set the tone.

Pavic then double faulted to put Patten and Heliovaara 5-2 up before a spectator was taken unwell which briefly disrupted the match. Heliovaara double faulted on the resumption but the single mini break was enough for the pair to claim the opening set.

It was a similar story in the second set with both teams unrelenting on serve and attacking the first volleys hard to not offer up any break chances, so the inevitable tie-break was needed again.

Patten stepped up with a wicked forehand return to get an immediate mini break then found another one later on as they moved 4-1 up and consolidated that leas to go on and seal a third Grand Slam title.

Patten hits out at ATP Tour over doubles proposals

Prior to Wimbledon, the ATP Tour proposed cuts to doubles events from 2028 due to concerns the current size of tournaments are putting too much strain on player facilities.

The ATP doubles tour largely take place on the same week and venue as the singles events throughout the year but tour organisers are looking to halve the number of teams at some events and reduce their prize money.

Patten took the opportunity of winning Wimbledon to make his feelings clear on the proposed changes when speaking on Centre Court.

“I’m a strong believer we are here to grow the game,” he said.

“This is a fantastic example of the joy that doubles can bring. We should be growing opportunities in tennis for kids, whether they are doubles players, singles players, from the UK, Finland, Croatia, El Salvador. We should be growing the sport instead of taking opportunities away.

“Thank you very much to Wimbledon for giving us this platform throughout the two weeks. You put us on amazing courts. You are the best tournament for a reason.”

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