World number two Carlos Alcaraz beat the world number one, Jannik Sinner, after a ten-point tie break in the final set. The champion wins £2.15million in prize money and gains 2,000 points in the rankings.
Italian world number one Jannik Sinner took the first two sets, threatening a quick win, before Spaniard world number two Carlos Alcaraz took the second two, forcing a deciding fifth set.
Jannik Sinner won a difficult tiebreak to claim the second set, leaving the Italian one set away from winning the French Open.
But Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, the defending champion of the French Open, came back from the brink of defeat to win the third set 6-4, becoming the first player to win a set against the world number one at this year’s French Open.
The Spaniard won a fourth-set tiebreak after saving three match points, forcing the match into a decisive fifth set.
Today’s Men’s Singles final was the longest at Roland Garros in the Open Era, breaking the previous record of 4 hours 42mins in 1982.
Jannik Sinner remains world number one.
The two men now have six Grand Slam titles between them.
Errani, Paolini win women’s doubles title
PARIS, JUN 8 (AGENCIES): Italian pair Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini beat Kazakh Anna Danilina and Serbia’s Aleksandra Krunic 6-4 2-6 6-1 to win the women’s doubles title at the French Open on Sunday.
It was the first Grand Slam trophy for the second-seeded Italians, who also won the Paris 2024 Olympics doubles title on the same court last year.
It was also 38-year-old veteran Errani’s second title this week after also clinching the French Open mixed doubles title with compatriot Andrea Vavassori.
The pairs traded breaks midway through the first set before the Olympic gold medallists, who had reached the final at the French Open last year, bagged it with another break at 5-4.
Danilina, a 2022 Australian Open doubles finalist, and Krunic bounced back, easily earning the second set but they were broken twice at the start of the third as the Italians raced to a 5-0 lead.
The Italians, sixth in the doubles rankings, wrapped up their first Grand Slam title as a pair when Krunic sank a forehand into the net.
Paolini, who reached both the women’s singles and doubles final at the French Open last year, had lost in the fourth round of this year’s singles edition.