Heliovaara and Patten are doubles champions, leaving Arévalo and Pavic without a title

The Finnish-British duo of Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten claimed the Wimbledon men's doubles championship on Saturday, defeating the formidable partnership of Marcelo Arévalo of El Salvador and Mate Pavic of Croatia. The victory marks Heliovaara and Patten's second Wimbledon title and their third Grand Slam title as a pair.

In a closely contested match that featured no service breaks, Heliovaara and Patten, the world's top-ranked doubles team, secured the win in two tiebreaks: 7-6 (4) and 7-6 (3). The match lasted one hour and 42 minutes, despite comeback attempts from their opponents.

This triumph serves as a revenge for Heliovaara and Patten, who had recently lost the Queen's Club final in London to Arévalo and Pavic just weeks prior. For Patten, this win continues a strong showing for British representation in doubles at Wimbledon, marking the fourth consecutive year a local player has been a champion in the doubles draw.

With this victory, Heliovaara and Patten have now won five titles this season, adding Wimbledon to their previous successes in Adelaide, Doha, Dubai, and Madrid. This consolidates their status as the number one doubles team. Meanwhile, Arévalo, despite his mixed doubles victory earlier in the week with partner Jelena Ostapenko, narrowly missed out on a historic achievement. He was vying to become the first-ever Latino player to win both the men's and mixed doubles titles at the same Wimbledon tournament.