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At the age of just 21, Carlos Alcaraz overcame Alexander Zverev to win the French Open for the first time and claim his third grand slam championship. After overcoming the fourth-seeded German player in a thrilling five-set match at Roland Garros, the Spaniard became the youngest player in tennis history to win grand slam titles on all three surfaces, 6-3 2-6 5-7 6-1 6-2 in four hours and 19 minutes.
Alcaraz mustered the will to resist loss in the first French Open men’s final without Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, or Roger Federer since 2004. In his comeback, he executed an incredible sequence of passing strokes. Despite needing a medical break during the fourth set, the third seed managed to win and maintain his flawless record in grand slam finals, having won three of his previous three matches.
After winning the US Open and Wimbledon earlier in his career, Alcaraz is currently one win away from completing the career grand slam at the Australian Open. Zverev, 27, lost the US Open final against Dominic Thiem in 2020 after leading the match two sets to none, thereby missing out on his maiden grand slam victory. The German
The seven-time grand slam champion and three-time French Open victor Mats Wilander tells Eurosport that this will be Carlos Alcaraz’s “most crucial” major slam victory.
“This grand slam, in my opinion, will be the most significant one he has won thus far. At Wimbledon, he was playing for everything to win and nothing to lose against Novak Djokovic, the best player in our sport, and at the US Open, it was all unexpected. Nobody, in my opinion, predicted that he would defeat Djokovic.
