Top seeds Heliovaara and Patten in new territory after reaching US Open semis

[p]With all of the top seven seeds making the last eight, the latter stages of the competition were always going to be tough, and so it proved for [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], who dropped a set and were taken to tiebreaks for the first time in the tournament.[/p][p]Both pairs were in control of their service games early in the first set, though [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/andreozzi-guido/jsEQiWCq/"]Andreozzi[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/guinard-manuel/Yi4YPuke/"]Guinard[/a] were forced to save break point in the 10th game. That missed chance proved costly for the Finn and Brit, who [b]had the tiebreak at their mercy at 6-4 up, only to throw it away and lose 9-7[/b], handing the seventh seeds a 7-6 set win.[/p][p]The first nine games of the second set were a carbon copy of the first, with not a single break point chance. But again, game 10 was the most dramatic, as the reigning Wimbledon champions almost crashed out, but [b]managed to save three match points and level things up at 5-5[/b].[/p][embed guid="4ec423eb-3fb4-4dc9-b086-ced273242a74" url="https://x.com/the_LTA/status/2097938827897659462" social-type="twitter" /][p]Another tiebreak was needed, but this time Heliovaara and Patten turned on the style, [b]forcing four successive losses of serve from the Argentinian and Frenchman to win 7-3[/b], confirming a 7-6 win of their own.[/p][p]Having survived the scare, the world number ones finished strongly in set three - having gone 3-2 up, [b]they didn't drop a single point on their opponents' next two service games, and held their own, to win the set 6-2[/b] in 30 minutes - a heartbeat compared to the 2:20 match time - and take the [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/heliovaara-h-OYcuApkE/patten-h-tzbx2iwG/?mid=SzixGQBG"]6-7, 7-6, 6-2[/a] win.[/p][p]In the semi-finals, Heliovaara and Patten will face the fifth seeds - the USA's own [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/harrison-christian/tKNpgwfr/"]Christian Harrison[/a] and Patten's compatriot, [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/skupski-neal/KUAXIw8j/"]Neal Skupski[/a].[/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/tennis/atp-doubles/us-open/"]Follow the men's doubles at the 2026 US Open on Flashscore.[/a][/b][/p]