Henry Patten and Harri Heliovaara save three match points and beat Australians Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson in the Wimbledon men's doubles final.
Great Britain's Henry Patten and Finland's Harri Heliovaara saved three match points on their way to winning a thrilling men's doubles final at Wimbledon.
Patten, 28, and Heliovaara, 35, clinched a superb 6-7 7-6 7-6 victory against Australian 15th seeds Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson, to the delight of a large crowd on Centre Court on Saturday.They had come into the tournament unseeded after only starting to work together in April. It means there has been a British winner in the men's doubles in consecutive years after Neal Skupski joined Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands to take the title in 2023.Patten and Heliovaara saved five set points in a thrilling first-set tie-break and had a chance of their own at 7-6, only for the Australians to win three successive points to move ahead in the match.
But Patten and Heliovaara, with the majority of the crowd cheering loudly at every success, fought hard and held off the first of the match points in the 12th game of the second set. They also then saved two further match points in the tie-break, fighting back from 7-6 and 8-7 behind to take it 10-8 and force a deciding set.Purcell and Thompson led 8-6, but Patten and Heliovaara won five of the next six points to seal an incredible victory, one which was marked by a near-deafening roar from a delighted Centre Court audience.
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