The Briton added: “I wish to thank everybody that stayed out right here and watched us play, you guys are slightly bit loopy however I really like you for it.”
Patten sealed victory with an ace, moments after saving the second of two break factors in opposition to his serve by the identical means, and immediately dropped to the ground in celebration.
It ended an exhausting match, lasting three hours and 4 minutes, which was concluded in entrance of a small contingent of loyal supporters at 1:42am.
After the match, Vavassori thanked the match organisers however questioned the choice to carry the boys’s doubles last so late, after the ladies’s singles last.
Addressing match director Craig Tiley, Vavassori mentioned: “You’re doing an incredible job. Hopefully, subsequent 12 months, you may change the time of the doubles finals. I do not assume it is good for doubles to not have so many individuals watching.
“That is one of the best match on this planet for me, thanks to all of the those that make this match doable. Within the subsequent 12 months, I want that doubles will develop as a result of it is an incredible sport, like singles.”
Whereas Patten is the third Briton, after Jamie Murray and Joe Salisbury, to win a number of males’s doubles titles this century, Heliovaara is the primary Finnish participant to realize that feat.
Solely 12 months in the past, Patten and Heliovaara each exited the Australian Open within the second spherical when taking part in with different companions.
Heliovaara initially declined a partnership with Patten however, since profitable an ATP title in Marrakech of their first match collectively, they haven’t regarded again.
They’ve quickly asserted themselves as one of many main males’s doubles pairings, profitable half the Slam tournaments they’ve entered collectively.
Heliovaara, who stopped taking part in tennis professionally between 2013 and 2017, mentioned: “Doubles is a crew sport, so a very powerful factor is to search out your self accomplice. I feel I’ve succeeded in that fairly nicely.
“Not solely on the tennis courtroom but in addition off it, we’re such good buddies. I feel that is what retains us shut collectively on tennis courts and brings us titles like this, so I am tremendous grateful.”