Top seeds Heliovaara and Patten safely through to third round at US Open

[p]The number one seeds were largely untroubled in their opener against the Cerundolo brothers, but [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] were made to work hard for their first set win, as after failing to take a break point chance in game two, neither pair came close to losing serve as the Finn and Brit went 6-5 up.[/p][p]But in the 12th game, [b]the Wimbledon champions made a breakthrough, racing into a 40-0 lead before getting over the line[/b] with their second set point, taking it 7-5.[/p][p]The favourites held off [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/arnaldi-matteo/hlVLAfZK/"]Arnaldi[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/struff-jan-lennard/Ek3bDDo2/"]Struff[/a] in the third game of the second set, and then hit back in the next to force a loss of serve and go 3-1 ahead.[/p][embed guid="67304137-a48e-4540-b0ca-8bc8d1ea87a1" url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVLGKXE61-E" social-type="youtube" /][p]Serving to stay in the match at 5-2 down, the Italian and German again struggled to contain Heliovaara and Patten when the finish line was in sight, as [b]the Finnish-British pair secured match point at the first attempt for a 6-2 set victory, and a [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/heliovaara-h-OYcuApkE/patten-h-tzbx2iwG/?mid=AyIuhOjl"]straight-sets win[/a][/b].[/p][p]In the next round, Heliovaara and Patten will face the winner of the match between Americans [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/lammons-nathaniel/hUvZFis6/"]Nathaniel Lammons[/a] & [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/withrow-jackson/f5OXuAOb/"]Jackson Withrow[/a] and Portuguese-American duo [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/cabral-francisco/0b07lcun/"]Francisco Cabral[/a] & [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/tracy-james/Q5tddYyP/"]JJ Tracy[/a].[/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/tennis/atp-doubles/us-open/"]Follow the US Open men's doubles on Flashscore.[/a][/b][/p]