By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday June 8, 2025
Photograph credit score: Mustafa Yalcin-Anadolu-Getty
Paris – Carlos Alcaraz made historical past by defeating Jannik Sinner within the pair’s first ever Grand Slam ultimate in Paris. The battle lasted for 5 hours and 29 minutes, and goes down because the longest Roland-Garros ultimate and the second-longest Grand Slam ultimate in historical past.
Let’s take a look at among the milestones reached by Alcaraz:
— Alcaraz wins his fifth main title, bettering to 5-0 lifetime in main finals. Just one male participant has received extra main finals earlier than shedding his first – Roger Federer, 7.
— Alcaraz improves to 13-1 in five-setters, after finishing his first comeback from two units to like down.
— The Spaniard saved three championship factors, turning into the third male participant in historical past to avoid wasting championship level in a Grand Slam ultimate, together with Gaston Gaudion and Novak Djokovic.
— Alcaraz is the second participant within the Open Period to win a number of Males’s Singles Main titles whereas saving match level(s) saved en path to the title (US Open 2022 and RG 2025) after Djokovic (US 2011 and Wim. 2019).
— The 22-year-old Spaniard is the fifteenth man in Open Period to win 5 or extra Grand Slam titles, and joins Djokovic (24), Nadal (22) and Federer (20) as solely males to realize that milestone on this century.
— Alcaraz has received 34 of his final 36 matches on clay and is now 25-3 lifetime at Roland-Garros.
— Alcaraz turned the third youngest man in historical past to win a fifth Grand Slam title, after Borg, 21, and Nadal, 22.
