In a French Open final for the ages on Sunday, Carlos Alcaraz saved three championship points by coming back from two sets down to defeat Jannik Sinner.
After five hours and 29 minutes, reigning champion Alcaraz rallied from the brink of defeat to defeat world number one Sinner 4-6, 6-7 (4/7), 6-4, 7-6 (7/3), 7-6 (10/2) to claim his fifth Grand Slam title.
After ending Sinner’s 20-match winning streak at the majors, the 22-year-old Spaniard is now unbeaten in five Grand Slam finals.
In the longest Roland Garros final in history, Alcaraz stunned Sinner with his first comeback from two sets down. In a 4h 42min victory over Guillermo Vilas in Paris, Mats Wilander easily won the 1982 final.
After a remarkable duel between a new generation’s stars, Alcaraz becomes the third youngest man to win five Grand Slams, behind only Bjorn Borg and compatriot Rafael Nadal.
After winning the US Open and the following Australian Open titles last year, Sinner agonizedly short of a third successive Grand Slam title.
In their first Grand Slam final encounter, he lost to Alcaraz for the fifth time in a row, and it was their first championship encounter between two men who were both born in the year 2000.
Alcaraz leads 8-5 overall after defeating Sinner to win in Rome, where the Italian resurrected after a three-month doping ban.
Source: Channels TV
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