Finland's Heliovaara and GB's Patten knock out French duo to reach Doubles Final

[p]Having never reached the Semi-finals at Roland Garros before this year, the Finnish/British pair now have the opportunity to add the French Open to their 2024 Wimbledon and 2025 Australian Open crowns.[/p][p][b]The second seeds will face either first seeds [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/granollers-marcel/2B5Hvd1l/"]Marcel Granollers[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/zeballos-horacio/Eecas9kD/"]Horacio Zeballos[/a], or fifth seeds [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/bolelli-simone/zuYo8TE1/"]Simone Bolelli[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/vavassori-andrea/EVknmLDE/"]Andrea Vavassori[/a] in what is set to be a high-quality Final on Saturday 6th June.[/b][/p][p]Local favourites [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/halys-quentin/EDve8Ljh/"]Halys[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/herbert-pierre-hugues/vD0zNRBM/"]Herbert[/a] were the fifth unseeded duo to have come up against [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] in the tournament so far, and while the Final will be a step up in class, there is no doubting the pair's form - they have won all 10 of their sets so far without needing a tiebreak, including in this match where they were up against a two-time champion and career Grand Slam winner in Herbert.[/p][p]The latest two of those were wrapped up in one hour 16 minutes - in the firsr set, the breakthrough came in the sixth game, [b]when a pair of unforced errors and a double fault from Herbert handed a 4-2 lead to the Finn and Brit, who then both held serve comfortably to take the opener, 6-3.[/b][/p][embed guid="1de7acd4-5113-40dc-90a9-fc85e053779c" url="https://x.com/the_LTA/status/2062480840496418953" social-type="twitter" /][p]The pressure appeared to be getting to Herbert as his serve began the second set, [b]but another two double faults put the Frenchmen on the back foot, and Heliovaara and Patten broke serve again.[/b][/p][p]However, they came close to breaking back in the fourth game, going 40-0 up only for Heliovaara to save three break points, which included a rare ace from the 36-year-old.[/p][p]That was the closest the French pair came, and though they managed to save two match points when serving in game nine, [b]Heliovaara and Patten got the job done on the Essex man's serve in the next game to secure a [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/halys-q-EDve8Ljh/herbert-p-vD0zNRBM/?mid=AmdjorMG"]6-3, 6-4 win[/a] for a place in the Final.[/b][/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/tennis/atp-doubles/french-open/"]Follow all the Semi-finals and Finals at the 2026 French Open on Flashscore.[/a][/b][/p]