Britain’s Henry Patten and Finnish team-mate Harri Heliovaara got here via a match tie-break to achieve their first Australian Open males’s doubles last collectively.
The Wimbledon champions held their nerve to beat Germany’s Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz 6-4 3-6 7-6 (10-7).
It’s a second main last for Patten and Heliovaara in simply their fourth Grand Slam collectively, having first joined forces in April 2024.
The sixth seeds will face Italian third seeds Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori in Saturday’s last.
Patten, who had not gone past the third spherical at a Slam earlier than partnering with Heliovaara, stated: “I am simply attempting to journey the wave. I can not cease smiling for the time being which, for individuals who know me, is fairly uncommon.
“Normally I am a traditional grumpy Brit. I am simply attempting to take pleasure in each second and taking all of it in with Harri.”
Heliovaara stopped taking part in professionally between 2013 and 2017 due to an autoimmune illness that impacts his backbone, as a substitute working in finance throughout that interval.
Heliovaara stated: “If you happen to ask me 5, six years in the past if this was potential whereas I used to be making Powerpoints and Excel sheets within the workplace, I might have laughed.
“I have never regretted a single day [of coming back].”