The dramatic opening round of the Australian Open Finals ended with a slight benefit of the Italians. However, Heliövaara and Patten rose to victory.
Harri Heliövaara and Henry Patten celebrate the Australian Open Tennis Tournament Championship. The two defeated the Italian pair in the finals Simone Bolelli / Andrea Vavassor I read 6-7 (16–18), 7-6 (7-5), 6-3.
The championship was the second of the duo at the Grand Slam level. Last summer, Heliövaara and Patten celebrated the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament Championship.
The championship was settled in the third round of more than three hours of excitement. It started well with Heliövaara and Patten, when Heliövaara broke 2-0 in her palm. In the past, Heliövaara had had problems with his palm return in tight hiking balls.
The two then held their feed and clearly ran into the championship 6-3. With the victory, Heliövaara rises fourth on the world list of tennis doubles.
Australia’s Open victory brings a hefty pot to the two. A total of $ 810,000 in Australia, or about $ 487,000, will champion.
Dramatic opening
Already the opening round offered a lot of drama. From the Finnish-British perspective, the finale started difficult when Patten lost her feed on her first pass. Heliövaara and Patten were immediately close to the burglary, but the duo failed for their three burglaries.
The Finnish-British pair then twisted tightly with Italian passes and eventually succeeded in the tenth game. The burglary contained drama as the duo was able to try to break after a changed sentence in the video inspection. In the situation, the vavassor hit the ball on the wrong side.
Heliövaara and Patten had three burglaries for a lot of batch winning before the road breaks, but this time they did not use it. In the end, the duo had a total of ten wilderies, but the Italians took the Tie-Breik’s reading 18-16.
Heliövaara and Patten stretched
Right at the beginning of the second round, the Italian duo kept their feed and was already close to the murder to a 2-0 lead. However, Heliövaara and Patten stretched to victory, and after that, each pair kept their feeds up to the road to the road.
In Tie-Breik, Heliövaara and Patten held their ground this time and took the solution to the third round 7-5. The decisive batch did not provide the same excitement when Heliövaara and Patten were in a class of their own.
Heliövaara and Patten’s cooperation in less than a year has been fruitful at Grand Slam level, as they have only bent once in four tournaments.
The duo had to withdraw from France’s open due to Heliövaara’s injury, but it did not result in the loss column.
The story is updated.