Harri Heliövaara became the first Finn to win the Wimbledon tennis tournament in doubles. The final was extremely exciting.
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35 years old Harri Heliövaara has a British counterpart of Henry Patten won the Wimbledon tennis tournament men’s doubles championship with
Heliövaara and Patten defeated the Australians in a wildly even and exciting final match by Max Purcell and by Jordan Thompson by 6–7 (7–9), 7–6 (10–8), 7–6 (11–9). The match lasted almost three hours.
Heliövaara and Patten became the first Unranked pair to win the Wimbledon doubles in ten years.
Heliövaara’s doubles grand slam final was his first and he is also the first Finnish adult doubles champion at the legendary Wimbledon. The winning couple will share more than 770,000 euros. Formerly from Finns Henri Kontinen won Wimbledon mixed doubles in 2016 and was in the final in 2017.
Usually after victories, Heliövaara has vented boisterously, but this time the Finn burst into tears of happiness.
– This is really emotional. We were lucky to win, but sometimes you need luck to win, Heliövaara said and praised the opponents on Max’s broadcast.
This is how the match went
Both pairs of the match were able to hold their serve excellently – it was already known in advance that especially the Australian pair’s serve was difficult to break. In the end, not a single pass break was seen in the match.
The first set went to a tiebreaker game, which was finally decided for the Purcell/Thompson duo 9–7.
The second batch followed the same pattern. The match was really exciting when the Aussie pair got three championship balls, two in the tiebreaker. However, Heliövaara and Patten showed fortitude, eventually winning the tie-break 10–8 and taking the second set.
The statistics of ace serves tells a lot about the serving game of the Purcell/Thompson duo: they hit 15 aces in the match, Heliövaara and Patten two.
Heliövaara and Patten stretched into the tiebreak game of the third set, although at times Purcell and Thompson were close to breaking the pass. Heliövaara and Patten, who fought fiercely, won the championship in their second championship ball. Heliövaara passed and the Australian returned to the net. Cut-off game finally to Finland and Great Britain 11–9.