The match towards Bolelli and Vavasorri lasted greater than three hours and didn’t end till 01.42 native time.
“I feel it is in all probability the longest doubles match I’ve ever performed. I needed to go and ask my coach for a shot of espresso after the primary set, which we misplaced in a very shut tie-break, and that form of set the tone for the remainder of the match – it was a warfare of attrition,” mentioned Patten.
The left-handed Englishman from Manningtree in Essex first performed tennis on the age of 5, and in 2022 gained 10 titles on the ATP Challenger tour with fellow Briton Julian Money.
He teamed up with Heliovaara 9 months in the past and so they haven’t seemed again since profitable their first event as a pair in Marrakech.
“It is superb that it is occurred so rapidly – it looks like simply the blink of an eye fixed,” mentioned 28-year-old Patten, who served an ace to clinch victory in Melbourne.
“It is nonetheless a bit surreal. I do not know if that is the jetlag or simply [that I] by no means imagined this may all occur.”
It was their second Grand Slam title, having additionally gained at Wimbledon final summer season, and he and Heliovaara can have an opportunity so as to add one other on the French Open, which begins on 25 Might.
“Subsequent week we’ll be in Dallas, enjoying on the ATP tour, then I am going to have one other week off, after which it is Doha, Dubai and straight again over to the States, so it is continuous,” Patten added.
