The French Open opened two weeks ago with a tribute to retired 14-time champion Radal Nadal and the Big Three of his generation.
It ended today on the clay court at Roland Garros in Paris with the unquestioned coronation of the Big Two.
Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz cemented their mark as the future of men’s tennis in a classic French Open men’s final when Alcaraz fought off three consecutive match points in the fourth set and rallied for a grueling 4-6, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2) victory.
“Honestly, I don’t know what I did. Honestly, I don’t know what happened,” Alcaraz said on the TNT broadcast. I didn’t think about anything else, just going point after point and putting my heart into it and getting all of my energy into it. I tried to not give up. We were in a final of a grand