World No 1s Henry Patten and Harri Heliovaara won the Wimbledon men’s doubles title on Saturday, reclaiming their 2024 crown with a straight-sets win over sixth seeds Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic.
The top-seeded pair were immaculate on serve and raised their game further in two clinical tiebreaks, winning 7-6(4) 7-6(3) in a match which featured no break points.
It was redemption for Britain’s Patten and his Finnish partner after they lost the Queen’s final to the same opposition in straight sets just last month, while it marked an immediate return to the top after they lost a one-sided Roland-Garros final, and made Patten the first British man to win the Wimbledon men’s doubles crown twice.
This marks a third grand slam title for the pairing, who have only been together for two years, after Wimbledon 2024 and the Australian Open in 2025.
Arevalo was denied a fourth grand slam title and second of the weekend, after claimed the mixed doubles trophy on Thursday alongside Jelena Ostapenko, in doing so becoming the first player from El Salvador to win a Wimbledon title. Croatia’s Mate Pavic, a seven-time grand slam champion, now has a third runners-up plate at Wimbledon to go with the title in won in 2021 with compatriot Nikola Mektic.
An extremely close first set went on serve. Pavic held to love to take the set to a tiebreak, where top seeds Patten and Heliovaara edged ahead, the Finn excellent at the net, for a 5-2 lead.
The teams traded double faults before Patten volleyed in to set up set point, which he and Heliovaara duly converted to the delight of the Centre Court crowd.
The second set followed the same pattern, with none of the players blinking on serve: by the ninth game both teams had lost just three points apiece on service.
Pavic came under pressure on serve at 4-4, but escaped from deuce to remain in front, while Arevalo similarly wriggled out of deuce at 5-5, with neither side generating a break point and the match headed to another tiebreak.
Again Patten and Heliovaara pulled in front, with Patten serving immaculately as they established a 5-1 lead, and Pavic scooped a dipping ball wide to give the duo four championship points.
Pavic and Arevalo saved the first, but Patten fired down a huge serve which they could not return at 6-3 to seal the title, before dropping to the ground in relief and delight. Heliovaara celebrated with a forward roll before hugging his teammate and taking in the applause of the crowd.
Patten and Heliovaara did not have the smoothest passage through the draw, playing match tiebreaks in three of their five matches en route to the final. But they have been superb in breakers, winning eight of the nine they contested throughout the tournament, including two on the grandest stage of all on Saturday.
The pair’s win makes this the fourth year in a row that a Briton has lifted the trophy, after Neal Skupski won alongside Dutch partner Wesley Koolhof in 2023, Patten and Heliovaara won the following year, and all-British duo Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool won the 2025 edition.
