Harri Heliövaara has postponed a tennis tournament where he was supposed to play doubles with Henry Patten.
The Finnish foursome player Harri Heliövaaran the return to the field will be postponed by at least a week. Heliövaaran and his British partner of Henry Patten was supposed to play in the qualifiers for the Queen’s Club grass court tournament starting on Monday in London, but Heliövaara has delayed the tournament their website from the competition list.
The next possible competition for the doubles pair is the Eastbourne ATP tournament in Great Britain, which starts on June 24. The Wimbledon grand slam tournament, which will be played on grass courts, starts on July 3 for the doubles, so Heliövaara and Patten, who started their collaboration in the spring, would only have time to play one preparatory tournament on grass before the summer’s main competition.
Heliövaara is on break due to a shoulder injury. He withdrew from the French Open mid-tournament in early June. He wrote after returning home from Paris to his blog, that he hopes to be able to return to the courts in London. However, there was uncertainty about the return schedule.