Top-ranked Jannik Sinner defeated two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday to win his first Wimbledon championship and reverse the result of their epic French Open final last month.
Exactly five weeks after the world No. 1 and No. 2 players completed the second-longest men's major final on the red clay of Roland Garros -- with Alcaraz overcoming a two-set deficit and saving three match points along the way -- it was Sinner who had to rally from dropping the opening set on grass to earn his fourth career Grand Slam title.
Sinner, a 23-year-old from Italy who won the US Open in September 2024 and defended his Australian Open title in January, was playing in his fourth consecutive major final but first at the All England Club. He is the first Italian playe