Wimbledon 2026: Henry Patten and Harri Heliovaara win second men’s 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 title with a straight sets victory.

Patten and Heliovaara, who won the world title in 2024, defeated Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador and Mate Pavic of Croatia 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-3) on Saturday, hours after Britain’s Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid won their seventh wheelchair doubles title.

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

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

“Our entire team that is traveling with us, our friends, family and especially my fiancee who can’t be here today, deserves a special mention!

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

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

As expected, the match was full of big serves and few break chances, surprisingly, no break chances throughout the tournament.

The ease with which both sides served meant that the first set of breaks was needed and early breaks by Patten and Heliovaara set the tone.

Pavic double-faulted to put Patten and Heliovaara up 5-2 before an upset spectator briefly interrupted the match. Heliovaara double-faulted on the restart but one small break was enough for the pair to claim the opening set.

It was the same story in the second set where both teams were relentless in their work and attacking the first volleys hard not to give any break opportunities, so the inevitable break was needed again.

Patten mounted a poor return to get a quick break and then another later as they went 4-1 up and rallied to go on and seal a third Grand Slam title.

Patten is leading the ATP Tour over a doubleheader

Ahead of Wimbledon, the ATP Tour proposed cutting back to double events from 2028 due to concerns the current size of the tournaments is placing too much of a burden on players’ facilities.

The ATP doubles tour mostly takes place in the same week as the same venue as singles events throughout the year but tour organizers are looking to reduce the number of teams in other events and reduce their prize money.

Patten took the opportunity to win Wimbledon to make his feelings about the proposed changes clear when he spoke on Center Court.

“I strongly believe that we exist to grow the game,” he said.

“This is a great example of the joy that doubles can bring. We have to increase tennis opportunities for children, whether they are doubles players, singles players, from the UK, Finland, Croatia, El Salvador. We have to increase the sport instead of taking chances.

“Thank you so much to Wimbledon for giving us this stage every two weeks. You put us on some amazing courts. You’re the best competitor for a reason.”

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