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French Open Champion Alkaraz (right) and runner up Cinner (left).
Spain’s 22 -year -old tennis player Carlos Alkaraz has become the French Open Champion. In the struggling title match that lasted a 5 -hour long struggle at the Rolan Garo Stadium, Alkaraz defeated Italy’s Janic Sinner in five sets. Alkaraj won the match 4-6, 6-7, 6-4, 7-6, 7-6. He saved his title here. Along with this, Alkaraj has made his record 5-0 in the Grand Slam. That is, this was his fifth Grand Slam final and became the winner for the fifth time.
The winner got a prize money of Rs 25 crore while the runner -up got Rs 13 crore. At the same time, this happened 6th time in Open Era when someone became a champion after losing the first two sets in the final.
Both titles of the singles category of French Open went to the account of the number-2 players this time. Earlier, on Saturday, World No-2 Coco Goff No-1 became the champion by defeating Aryana Sabalanka. Now on Sunday, number-2 Alkaraj defeated the number-1 synerg and did so.
Victory Celebration of Alkaraj in 3 photos …
Alkaraz after scoring points against Sinner in the final match.
Alkaraz asked his supporters to greet in loud voice.
After the victory, Alkaraj lay down on the ground.
The decision was taken by a tie brake of fifth set For the third time in Open Era, the male singles Grand Slam final was decided by the tie break of the fifth set. Earlier, the result of the final between Dominic Thiem and Alexander Zverev at the US Open of 2020 came from a tie break, with Thiem winners. Prior to that, at Wimbledon 2019, Djokovic won the title by defeating Federer in a tiebreaker of the fifth set.
This happened for the first time in the Grand Slam, when the players born after 2000 came face to face in the final. At the same time, this happened for the first time since 2013, when the title match was played among the top-2 players in the world rankings. The longest French Open Final in Open Era This final match of Alkaraz-Sinner was the longest Era’s longest final at the French Open. The match lasted up to 5 hours 29. It broke the records of the finals of Guilmo Vilas (Argentina) and Met’s Wilnder (Sweden) on 6 June 1982. Wilnder won that match 1-6, 7-6, 6-0, 6-4, which lasted for 4 hours 42 minutes. Sinner lost fifth consecutive matches from Alkaraj This was the fifth consecutive win against Alkaraj’s sinner. He also defeated Sinner in the final of Rome Masters last month. 12 matches have been played between the two so far, of which Alkaraz has won 8.
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Read this news of French Open too … Coco Goff won the French Open, defeated Sabalanka: Djokovic lost the semi-finals, said- maybe this was my last match
World No. 2 Coco Goff has won the French Open. The 21-year-old American star defeated the world’s number-1 tennis star Aryana Sabalanka 6-7, 6-2, 6-4 in the final match of Women’s Singles on Saturday. Sabalenka won the first set 7-6 in a two-hour 38 minute match. Goff has won the second Grand Slam of his career. She became the US Open Champion in 2023. Read full news …
