Spain's 22 -year -old tennis player Carlos Alkaraz has become the French Open Champion. Alkaraz defeated Italy's Genic Sinner in five sets in a difficult title match that lasted more than 5 hours at Roland Garos Stadium.
Alkaraz won the match 4-6, 6-7, 6-4, 7-6, 7-6. He defended his title here. With this, Alcaraz has made his record 5-0 in the Grand Slam. That is, this was his fifth Grand Slam final and he became the fifth time the winner.
The winner received a prize money of Rs 25 crore while the runner -up got Rs 13 crore. This is the sixth time in the open age when a person has become a champion after losing the first two sets in the final.
This time, both the title number-2 players of the French Open singles category went. Earlier, on Saturday, World No. 2 Koko Gauf became a champion by beating Sabalenka of No. 1 Arya. Now on Sunday, No. 2 Alkaraz did the same by beating No. 1 Siner.
Celebrate Alcaraz's victory in 3 photos …
Alkaraz after scoring points against Sinner in the final match.
Alkaraz asked his supporters to welcome him.
After the victory, Alcaraz slept on the ground.
The decision was made by a tie-break in the fifth set Only for the third time in the open age, the men's singles Grand Slam final was decided by a fifth set tie-break. Earlier, Dominic The US Open Final Tie-break reached between Dominic Thim and Alexander Zverev, in which Thim was victorious. Prior to that, in Wimbledon 2019, Djokovic won the title by beating Federer in a fifth set tie-breaker.
This is the first time in the Grand Slam, when the players born after 2000 have hit each other in the final. Also this is the first time since 2013 when the title match was played between the top 2 players in the world rankings.
The longest French Open Finals in the Open Age This final match of Alkaraz-Sinner was the longest final of the open age at the French Open. The match lasted for 5 hours 29 minutes. He broke the record for the finals of Guilermo Vilas (Argentina) and Mats Villender (Sweden) on June 6, 1982. Wilinder won the match 1-6, 7-6, 6-0, 6-4, lasting 4 hours 42 minutes.
Sinner lost his fifth consecutive match to Alkaraz This was the fifth consecutive victory of Alkaraz against Sinner. He also defeated Sinner in the final of the Rome Masters last month. So far 12 matches have been played between the two, of which Alkaraz has won 8 matches.
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