Heliovaara and Patten add another straight-sets win in bid for US doubles crown

[p]The pair are three-time Grand Slam winners, but for [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/heliovaara-harri/OYcuApkE/"]Heliovaara[/a] it's a last-eight appearance in New York just for the second time in his career after 2022, while [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/patten-henry/tzbx2iwG/"]Patten[/a] has never reached the stage before.[/p][p]Despite the unchartered territory as a duo, victory over [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/cabral-francisco/0b07lcun/"]Cabral[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/tracy-james/Q5tddYyP/"]Tracy[/a] is their third two-set win of the competition so far, and they are yet to be forced into a tiebreak.[/p][p]The number one seeds' great form was on display from the off in the third round, as [b]they forced a loss of serve in the very first game[/b], and though they had to save four break points in a mammoth eighth game, they had done enough for the 6-4 win in the first set.[/p][embed guid="d497a50f-190f-47cf-a3c5-bd1dab5c391a" url="https://x.com/the_LTA/status/2097579456558768446" social-type="twitter" /][p]One break was all they needed in the second set, too, forcing the loss at the second time of asking to go 4-3 ahead. The Portuguese and American duo missed the chance to break back in game 10, [b]but Heliovaara and Patten took the next three points to win the set 6-4 and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/heliovaara-h-OYcuApkE/patten-h-tzbx2iwG/?mid=Chjfkppf"]the match 2-0[/a][/b] in one hour and 10 minutes.[/p][p]In the quarter-finals, the world number one pair will face the seventh seeds, [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/andreozzi-guido/jsEQiWCq/"]Guido Andreozzi[/a] of Argentina and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/guinard-manuel/Yi4YPuke/"]Manuel Guinard[/a] of France, in what is sure to be a tough end to the competition, with seeds one to seven all making it through to the last eight.[/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/tennis/atp-doubles/us-open/"]Follow the 2026 US Open men's doubles on Flashscore.[/a][/b][/p]