Alcaraz wins longest French Open final in five sets after saving 3 match points against Sinner

Carlos Alcaraz rallied from 2 sets down and saved 3 lucifer points to bushed Jannik Sinner 4-6, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (10-2) connected Sunday and clasp his French Open rubric for a 2nd consecutive year.

Alcaraz, who won his 5th Grand Slam tourney successful arsenic galore finals, produced 1 of the top comebacks successful the past of the clay-court tournament.

It was the archetypal clip that Sinner had mislaid a Grand Slam final.

It was besides the longest-ever French Open last — 5 hours, 29 minutes — successful the Open Era.

After 3 hours, 43 minutes, Sinner had his archetypal lucifer point. But with conscionable implicit 5 hours since the lucifer began, Alcaraz served for the rubric astatine 5-4 up.

The play was inactive not over.

Sinner made a singular retrieve from yet different superb Alcaraz driblet shot. At the precise bounds helium could agelong to, Sinner glided the shot implicit the net, with the shot landing with the softness of an autumn leafage and retired of Alcaraz's scope to marque it 15-40.

When Sinner won the crippled to marque it 5-5, it was his crook to beverage the applause and helium was 2 points distant from triumph successful the 12th game, with Alcaraz connected service and astatine 15-30 and astatine deuce.

But Alcaraz made a staggering cross-court backhand to marque it 6-6 and unit a tiebreaker, with the assemblage going chaotic erstwhile Alcaraz's cross-court victor made it 4-0.

Sinner could not find a mode backmost and Alcaraz won the lucifer with a superb forehand walk down the enactment and past fell onto his backmost to celebrate.