Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz won his second-straight French Open men’s title after a thrilling five-set match against Jannik Sinner on Sunday.
Sinner, the top-ranked player, won the first two sets 6-4, 7-6 (4) before Alcaraz claimed the third set 6-4. Alcaraz was trailing 5-3, 40-0 in the fourth set before rallying past his rival, winning a tiebreaker 7-6 (3). In the deciding fifth set, the Spanish player came out on top after a lopsided tiebreaker.
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Sinner and Alcaraz share seven major titles, four for Alcaraz and three for Sinner, who is in the French Open final for the first time. It was the first time that Sinner had lost a Grand Slam final.
It was also the longest-ever French Open final.
Sinner is on a 20-match winning streak in Grand Slam tournaments, after winning the U.S. Open and the Australian Open.
The 22-year-old Alcaraz owns a tour-leading 21-1 record on clay this year and has beaten the 23-year-old Sinner in their past four meetings.
EDITOR’S NOTE: An earlier version of this story misspelled Sinner’s first name.