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Heliovaara & Patten claim second Wimbledon title: 'It is unbelievable!'

Top seeds Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten won their second Wimbledon title together on Saturday, when they clawed past sixth seeds Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic 7-6(4), 7-6(3) for the trophy.

Heliovaara and Patten became the first men’s doubles team to claim multiple Wimbledon crowns since Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan did so in 2011. They are the 11th team in the Open Era to achieve the feat.

“It is unbelievable. These are the moments you always dreamed of, playing on the Centre Court at Wimbledon, but doing it twice as well,” Heliovaara said during the trophy ceremony. “I need to thank Henry for being the best partner in the world, let’s start with that.”

“I owe Harri my career, really. When I started with Harri, he took a chance on me and it turned out to be the best decision he ever made, I think,” Patten later joked. “It’s our whole team that travels with us week in, week out around the world. It’s our families, friends, everyone who supports us from afar and my fiancee especially, who couldn’t be here today.”

Across the fortnight, the champions won three final-set tie-breaks, battling past Mac Kiger and Patrik Thrac in the second round, Adam Pavlasek and Patrik Rikl in the third round and eighth seeds Guido Andreozzi and Manuel Guinard in the quarter-finals. They won eight of their nine tie-breaks in The Championships.

Patten crushed an ace down the T in the Ad court to claim their third major trophy as a team, having also emerged victorious at Wimbledon in 2024 and at last year’s Australian Open. The lefty Patten is the first British men’s doubles player in the Open Era to lift the Wimbledon trophy more than once.

There were no break points for either team in the match. Heliovaara and Patten won 41 of their 45 first-serve points (91%) to avoid falling under pressure.

This was a rematch of the Queen’s Club final, which Arevalo and Pavic won 6-2, 6-4. In that match, Heliovaara and Patten won just 56 per cent of their first-serve points.

Heliovaara and Patten now lead Arevalo and Pavic 6-3 in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series, including a 4-1 record this year. Arevalo won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title with Jelena Ostapenko.

“Just want to say thank you to everybody that showed up today to support. I think it was a great match,” Arevalo said. “I want to take the time to [congratulate] Henry and Harry for this amazing two weeks, to get a title here again.”