Carlos Alcaraz, crowned at Roland-Garros after an epic final, walks in the footsteps of Rafael Nadal

At the forefront, even Spike Lee could not come back. The American director knows himself there in scenario. But he would have had to be very inventive to write the one who took place before his eyes, Sunday June 8, in Roland-Garros. After a blockbuster of almost five and a half hours, unheard of in the final in Paris, Carlos Alcaraz came to the end of the Italian Jannik Sinner to keep his crown. The Spaniard was however led two sets to zero, faced three match balls, but resisted all the opposite winds to win in five heats (4-6, 6-7, 6-4, 7-6, 7-6).

Carlos Alcaraz cannot be criticized for not having warned. And rather twice than one. “I think it will be a great Sunday for tennis fans”, He had first prophesied on Friday, before giving a taste of the state of mind that was going to live in in the final: “In a big slam, we always have time to come back. »» And time, the two men have given it. From the first game, twelve minutes long, the 15,000 spectators of the court Philippe-Chatrier understood that the show would be worth the ticket prize. Five hours later, they were sure to have attended one of the matches of the century when Carlos Alcaraz concluded it from a final forehand passage before collapsing, drunk with happiness.

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