Henry Patten tennis stayed alive at Wimbledon 2026. Patten and Harri Heliovaara reached the third round after edging Max Kiger and Patrik Trhac in a second-round match that went to a last-set tiebreak.
The top seeds had to go the distance to get there. They now move into a third-round meeting with Adam Pavlasek and Patrik Rikl, with a place in the quarter-finals on the line.
Patten and Heliovaara under pressure
For Patten and Heliovaara, the second round asked a different question than seeding usually does. They did not cruise through it; they were stretched into a final-set breaker before finding the result they needed to keep their draw alive.
That route is the clearest marker in the match. A straight-sets win would have carried them forward cleanly, but the last-set tiebreak shows how narrow the margin was before the top seeds escaped.
Adam Pavlasek and Patrik Rikl await
The reward for getting through is immediate. Pavlasek and Rikl are next, and the winner moves one round closer to the quarter-finals at Wimbledon 2026.
That makes the third round more than a routine step. Patten and Heliovaara are still in the draw as the top seeds, but they already know the rest of the bracket will not give them a soft landing after a second-round scare.
Wimbledon 2026 doubles round-up
The same round also saw Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool beat Corentin Moutet and Arthur Reymond in three sets, while Neal Skupski and Christian Harrison defeated Jakub Paul and Ryan Seggerman in two tiebreaks. Those results kept the doubles draw moving while Patten and Heliovaara stayed on course from the top line.
Elsewhere, David Stevenson and Marcus Willis lost to Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic in the second round. Ben Jones and Joshua Paris fell in straight sets to Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori, Dan Evans and Henry Searle lost in straight sets to Hugo Nys and Edouard Roger-Vasselin, and Olivia Nicholls and Tereza Mihalikova were beaten in straight sets by Jesika Maleckova and Miriam Skoch.
