Harri Heliövaara and the British Henry Patten have fallen out of the continuation in the semi-finals of the men’s ATP final tournament in Turin.
A pair continues to the final match Marcelo Arevalo/Mate Pavicwho won in just over an hour and a half Harri Heliövaaran and British of Henry Patten 7-6 (7-1), 7-6 (7-4).
The match was decided in the tiebreaker of the second set. Patten lost his serve in the second game of the tiebreaker, so the Finnish-British pair were chasers, as they had been in the first set.
Heliövaara kept all his passing shifts in the match. Before the tiebreaks, Patten lost serve early in the opening set and in the second game of the second set.
El Salvador’s Arevalo and Croatia’s Pavic are the number one pair in the world rankings, Heliövaara and Patten were ranked seventh. Last summer, Heliövaara and Patten knocked Arevalo and Pavic in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon on their way to the grand slam tournament championship.
Arevalo and Pavic will meet the German pair in the doubles final of the ATP tournament on Sunday Kevin Krawietz/Tim Pütz. In the opening group, Krawietz and Pütz beat Arevalo/Pavic.
Heliövaara and Patten won all three of their first group matches in Turin, but the road got steeper in the playoffs.