Great Britain’s Henry Patten and Finnish partner Harri Heliovaara lost 6-4 6-2 to top seeds Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos in the French Open men’s doubles final.<\/p>\n
Second seeds Patten, 30, and Heliovaara, 37, were aiming to win a third Grand Slam title together as a partnership, following previous victories at Wimbledon in 2024 and the 2025 Australian Open.<\/p>\n
They had reached their first French Open final without dropping a set, but Patten conceded afterwards that it was a “tough day” for the duo as Spain’s Granollers, 40, and Argentina’s Zeballos, 41, successfully defended their title in one hour and 16 minutes.<\/p>\n
Patten would have become the first Briton to claim the men’s doubles title in Paris during the Open era had he and Heliovaara triumphed.<\/p>\n
However, they have the consolation of jointly becoming world number one when the rankings update on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain’s Henry Patten and Finnish partner Harri Heliovaara lost 6-4 6-2 to top seeds Marcel Granollers and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-720031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}