Wimbledon 2026 results: Henry Patten and Harri Heliovaara reclaim men's doubles title

Great Britain's Henry Patten and Finnish team-mate Harri Heliovaara clinched their third major triumph in as many years by regaining their Wimbledon men's doubles title.

The world number ones beat El Salvador's Marcelo Arevalo and Croatia's Mate Pavic 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-3) in front of a delighted Centre Court crowd.

Patten collapsed to the ground after firing down an ace on the pair's second match point, before being embraced by Heliovaara after his team-mate performed a forward roll in celebration.

The pair achieved their first Wimbledon triumph in 2024 despite only joining forces earlier that year, before winning the Australian Open in 2025.

Heliovaara called Patten "the best partner in the world" while the Briton thanked him for pairing up with him two years ago.

"I owe Harri my career, really. When I started, he took a chance on me, and it turned out to be the best decision he ever made, I think," Patten said.

"It is surreal. When we won the first time, we didn't know if we would have chance to do it again. We feel so lucky to be here again."

After being presented with the men's doubles trophy on Centre Court, Patten took time to defend doubles tennis after the men's ATP Tour proposed significant changes earlier this month.

A group of leading doubles players accused the tour of trying to "end doubles as a viable profession", after discussions were held around halving the size of future doubles draws and cutting prize money in order to allocate a greater share to singles players.

The proposals would mean only 16 teams competing at ATP 1000 events and eight at the smaller tournaments, while the percentage of prize money devoted to doubles players could fall from 20% to 10%.

"It would be remiss of me not to mention that the ATP Tour submitted proposals to cut some of the doubles, and I'm a strong believer we are here to grow the game," said Patten, who is optimistic of holding constructive meetings with the ATP.

"This is a fantastic example of the joy that doubles can bring. The crowd - I hope you enjoyed it.

"I believe we should be growing opportunities in tennis for kids, whether they are doubles players, singles players, British, Finnish, from El Salvador or Croatia, wherever they are from, we should be growing the support instead of taking opportunities away.

"Thank you to Wimbledon for giving this platform to us for the two weeks, you are the best tournament in the world."

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