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Heliovara/Paten spoil home Nitto ATP Finals, defeat Borelli/Vavassori to secure final spot

The Finnish-British combination will face Cash/Glasspool or Salisbury/Skupski for the trophy

November 15, 2025

Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten erased years of heartache at the Nitto ATP Finals in style in Turin on Saturday afternoon.

A year later, Heliovara and Patten reached the semi-finals on their debut in the famous season finale, this time defeating Simone Borelli and Andrea Vavasoli in the last four, 6-4, 6-3. The Finnish-British pair produced a stunning all-round performance that overwhelmed their Italian opponents and dispelled the partisan atmosphere inside the Inalpi Arena.

Patten advances to the championship match, continuing the British team’s dominance in the doubles competition at this year’s Nitto ATP Finals. He and Heliovara will face the all-British pair in Sunday’s championship match: the top seeds and year-end ATP doubles No. 1, presented by the PIF winning team of Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool, or Joe Salisbury and Neil Skupski.

The final is coming🕺🕺

Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten entered the Turin Championship, defeating Borelli/Vavasori 6-4 6-3!#NittoATP Finals pic.twitter.com/PcIQxxiNTk

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Heliovara and Patten cashed in on the only break point of the first set to take the lead in Saturday’s semifinals, 1-1, 30/40, and they also broke serve decisively in the third game of the second set. Patten, who started the week in Turin and is engaged to partner Ellie Stone, double faulted at 3-2, 40/30, giving Borelli and Valvasoli a chance to break on the tiebreaker, but then sealed the match with a gutless left-hand serve.

It proved to be the final moment on serve for Heliovara and Patten, who quickly ended the match with a 76-minute victory, scoring 87% (20/23) of their points after the first serve, according to Infosys ATP statistics. They now hold a 3-1 lead in the Lexus ATP head-to-head series over Borelli and Valvasoli, having won the two teams’ Australian Open semi-finals earlier this year.

Heliovara, 36, and Patten, 29, will compete on Sunday for their eighth tour-level title as a team and their second indoor title of the year after winning the Rolex Paris Masters earlier this month.