Top seeds Heliovaara and Patten through despite scare in Wimbledon second round

[p]The world number one pair needed time to break down their opponents [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/atmane-terence/6mkEQ279/"]Terence Atmane[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/sanchez-luca/b3DobAdF/"]Luca Sanchez[/a] in their opening round match, but that was plain sailing compared with their meeting with the unseeded American duo.[/p][p]Things would have been simpler had they taken break point in game four or one of three set points they forced in game 12 of the first set, but a bright start to the tiebreak - [b]going 4-1 before eventually closing out a 7-5 win - saw [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/heliovaara-harri/OYcuApkE/"]Heliovaara[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/patten-henry/tzbx2iwG/"]Patten[/a] take it, 7-6.[/b][/p][p]Neither pair came close to losing serve in the second set until game 11 when the Finnish-British duo had to chances to break, but failing to capitalise meant for another tiebreak, and this time it was the first seeds who were shakier, [b]as a faultless Kiger and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/trhac-patrik/fP6WABo4/"]Trhac[/a] levelled the match up with a 7-3 tiebreak win.[/b][/p][embed guid="b686181a-f440-41f9-8d8f-0d23ec51f24a" url="https://x.com/the_LTA/status/2073020525325037857" social-type="twitter" /][p]In the final set, the two sets of players were so strong on serve that neither conceded more than 30 points in any game when serving. A third tiebreak looked inevitable from very early on, and a loss of serve from Heliovaara and Patten saw them fall 5-2 down early on and under real pressure.[/p][p]But the 2024 champions hit back in style - [b]from 7-4 down, they won six points in a row to take the 10-point tiebreak 10-7, staving off what looked to be a major upset to win [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/heliovaara-h-OYcuApkE/patten-h-tzbx2iwG/?mid=jmcNIFrC"]the match[/a].[/b][/p][p]Heliovaara and Patten will hope for an easier match in the third round, up against the Czech pair of [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/pavlasek-adam/EmouDEJm/"]Adam Pavlasek[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/rikl-patrik/r5IEmPRO/"]Patrik Rikl[/a].[/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/tennis/atp-doubles/wimbledon/"]Follow all the action from Wimbledon 2026 on Flashscore.[/a][/b][/p]