Finland's Heliovaara and partner Patten make light work of Doubles First Round

[p]The former Wimbledon and Australian Open champions reached the Quarter-finals at Roland Garros last year, equalling [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/heliovaara-harri/OYcuApkE/"]Heliovaara[/a]'s best display with his former partner, and their bid to go further this time was not expected to be troubled by a pair who relied on protected ranking to qualify.[/p][p]After the first seven games went with serve, Heliovaara and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/patten-henry/tzbx2iwG/"]Patten[/a] stepped things up in game eight, [b]attacking [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/borges-nuno/hzbEPIOa/"]Borges[/a]' serve to take the game and go 5-3 up[/b], before two aces from the Brit helped the pair easily hold serve in the next game and win the set, 6-3.[/p][p]Borges and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/zhang-zhizhen/IFKEHRGG/"]Zhang[/a] managed to dig in and hold a nine-minute game three of the second set, [b]but with the Chinese serving in game five, the Finn and Brit finally broke through[/b] - a forehand winner from Patten ended another nine-minute contest.[/p][embed guid="41139699-048d-45f2-8a3f-c0d28ec9e923" url="https://x.com/the_LTA/status/2059982309734990013" social-type="twitter" /][p]The following three games went with serve, leaving Zhang serving to stay in the match. He and Borges were both guilty of a forehand forced error before an unforced mistake from Borges handed [b]the win to the number two seeds; [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/borges-n-hzbEPIOa/zhang-z-IFKEHRGG/?mid=nkwcs8f4"]6-3, 6-3[/a].[/b][/p][p]In the Second Round, the duo will face Hungary's [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/marozsan-fabian/I1mux0lj/"]Fabian Marozsan[/a] and Italian [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/bellucci-mattia/M9pojLqi/"]Mattia Belucci[/a].[/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/tennis/atp-doubles/french-open/"]Follow the 2026 French Open on Flashscore.[/a][/b][/p]