Harri Heliövaara

Harri Heliövaara (born 4 June 1989) is a Finnish professional tennis player. He has been ranked by the ATP as high as world No. 3 in doubles, achieved on 31 March 2025. He also attained his career-high singles ranking of No. 194 in December 2011. Heliövaara is a three-time Grand Slam champion in both doubles, at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships and at the 2025 Australian Open with Henry Patten and in mixed doubles at the 2023 US Open with Anna Danilina. He has won ten titles on the ATP Tour.

He has also won 20 ITF Futures in doubles and eight ITF Futures tournaments in singles. He won the 2007 Australian Open boys' doubles title with Graeme Dyce. Heliövaara announced his retirement from professional tennis in 2013 but made a comeback in 2017.

Personal life

Heliövaara was a member of the ATP Player Advisory Council in 2024.

Heliövaara worked outside tennis during his absence from the tour between 2014 and 2017. He interned at McKinsey & Company and also had an office job at Helsinki Airport. He met his wife, Sini, at the airport, where she worked full-time. The couple have two children together, a daughter and a son.

Heliövaara practices tennis at SATA-Tennis Club in Helsinki, and participates on the competitive team, which competes against other Finnish tennis clubs.

Career

2021: First two titles, Wimbledon third round

Partnering Lloyd Glasspool, Heliövaara won his first ATP Tour title at the 2021 Open 13 against Sander Arends and David Pel of the Netherlands in March, and his second at the 2021 Kremlin Cup with Dutch Matwé Middelkoop in October.

2022: Two major quarterfinals and ATP Finals semifinal, ATP 500 title, top 15

Heliövaara reached two more ATP 250 finals with Glasspool at the 2022 Open Sud de France in Lyon and the 2022 Dallas Open and entered the top 50 in doubles on 28 February 2022. In May 2022, on their debut at the 2022 Italian Open (tennis), the pair reached their first quarterfinal at a Masters 1000 as alternates, defeating top seeds Joe Salisbury and Rajeev Ram en route in the first round, marking their first win and a debut for Heliövaara at this level.

At the 2022 French Open he reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career with Glasspool. As a result, he moved into the top 40 at World No. 39 on 6 June 2022. The pair continued with their successful season reaching their first final on grass at the 2022 Queen's Club Championships. Next they advanced to the third round at Wimbledon for the second consecutive year.

They won their biggest title as partners at the ATP 500 2022 Hamburg European Open defeating Matwé Middelkoop and Rohan Bopanna. As a result, Heliövaara reached the top 25 on 25 July 2022. At the 2022 Croatia Open Umag, they reached the semifinals defeating wildcard pair Mili Poljičak and Nino Serdarušić. Next they defeated second seeds Rafael Matos and David Vega Hernández to reach their fifth final this season.

At the 2022 National Bank Open the pair reached the quarterfinals of a Masters 1000 for the second time in the season where they lost to third seeds Koolhof/Skupski.

Seeded 11th at the US Open they reached their second quarterfinal of a Grand Slam and first at this Major defeating 8th seeded pair of Kyrgios/Kokkinakis in three sets. The pair reached their sixth final of the season at the 2022 Moselle Open. As a result, Heliövaara reached the top 15 in the doubles rankings at World No. 14 on 26 September 2022.

On 4 November the pair qualified for their first 2022 ATP Finals after reaching their first Masters 1000 semifinal at the 2022 Rolex Paris Masters and Heliövaara moved to No. 12 in the rankings. They qualified for the ATP finals semifinals defeating Arévalo/Rojer and Granollers/Zeballos both matches in straight sets.

2023: Three Masters quarterfinals and semifinal, World No. 7, Mixed Major title

He won his fourth title with his partner Glasspool in Adelaide and reached the top 10 at No. 9 on 9 January 2023. He also reached his eleventh final in Dubai with Glasspool.

At the sign-in line of the US Open, Heliövarra met Anna Danilina, asked if she wanted a partner for the mixed doubles tournament, and she accepted. The recently formed pair wound up winning the entire event at Flushing Meadows.

2024: Three ATP titles and Wimbledon champion

In April, Heliövaara won his fifth title with his new partner Henry Patten at the Grand Prix Hassan II defeating second seeded Austrian duo of Alexander Erler and Lucas Miedler. Heliövaara and Patten also won the Madrid Challenger, defeating Guido Andreozzi and Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela in the final.

In May, Heliövaara and Patten defeated top seeds Andreas Mies and Neal Skupski in the final of the Turin Challenger. Heliövaara reached the final at the Lyon Open partnering also with Patten. The duo won their second ATP Tour title as a team, and sixth for Heliövaara defeating Albano Olivetti and Yuki Bhambri in the final.

Heliövaara and Patten reached the final at Wimbledon, defeating Italian duo Andrea Vavassori and Simone Bolelli, Spanish duo Pedro Martínez and Jaume Munar, and then Marcelo Arévalo and Mate Pavić in the quarterfinals, Neal Skupski and Michael Venus in the semifinals. They defeated Australian duo Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell in the final, in a three-setter with three tiebreaks, saving three match points, to win their first Grand Slam title together.

Heliövaara and Patten were runners-up at the China Open in October, losing in the final to top seeds Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori. The next week they won the Stockholm Open, defeating Petr Nouza and Patrik Rikl in the final. They followed this by reaching the semifinals at the Vienna Open, losing in a deciding tiebreak to wildcards and eventual champions Alexander Erler and Lucas Miedler after squandering two match points.

His place alongside Patten at the ATP Finals was confirmed on 28 October 2024 with the duo having secured a top eight spot in the ATP Doubles Race to qualify.

At the ATP Finals, Heliövaara and Patten defeated world No.1 team Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos in straight sets in their first group match. In their second group match, they defeated US Open champions Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell in straight sets. Heliövaara and Patten then secured first place in their group by winning their third match against Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektić in a deciding champions tiebreak. They lost in the semifinals to top seeds Marcelo Arévalo and Mate Pavić in two sets, both of which went to tiebreaks.

2025: Australian Open doubles champion, World No. 3

Alongside Patten, Heliövaara won the doubles title at the Australian Open, defeating third seeds Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori in the final. With the title, Heliövaara became the first Finnish player to win multiple men's doubles major championships. On the way to the final they overcame Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli and Ryan Seggerman, Marc Polmans and Matthew Romios, Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram, 15th seeds Hugo Nys and Edouard Roger-Vasselin and fourth seeds Kevin Krawietz and Tim Pütz.

At the Qatar Open, Heliövaara and Patten reached the quarterfinals. They defeated Tallon Griekspoor and Adam Pavlasek in the first round, before defeating Novak Djokovic and Fernando Verdasco in straight sets in what was Verdasco's final match on the ATP Tour. They lost in the semifinal in three sets to Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski.

Seeded second, Heliövaara and Patten were runners-up at the Dubai Tennis Championships in March, losing in the final to Yuki Bhambri and Alexei Popyrin. Again seeded second at the French Open, they lost in the quarterfinals to ninth seeds Evan King and Christian Harrison.

Doubles performance timeline

''Current through the 2025 Dubai Tennis Championships.''

Significant finals

Grand Slam tournaments

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

Mixed doubles: 1 (1 title)

ATP career finals

Doubles: 19 (9 titles, 10 runner-ups)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 13 (8–5)

Doubles: 61 (36–25)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

References

External links

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Harri Heliövaara's official website

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Finnish male tennis players
Australian Open (tennis) junior champions
1989 births
Living people
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles
Tennis players from Helsinki
US Open (tennis) champions
Wimbledon champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles
21st-century Finnish sportsmen