Carlos Alcaraz wins his second consecutive title by French Open Men after defeating n ° 1 Jannik Sinner Blogging Sole

Reigning champion Carlos Alcaraz won his second title of French Open Male after an exciting match of five sets against Jannik Sinner on Sunday.

Sinner, the best classified player, won the first two sets 6-4, 7-6 (4) before Alcaraz won the third set 6-4. Alcaraz followed 5-3, 40-0 in the fourth set before surpassing himself in front of his rival, winning an equality break 7-6 (3). In the fifth decisive set, the Spanish player came out in the lead after a break in unbalanced equality.

Sinner and Alcaraz share seven major titles, four for Alcaraz and three to Sinner, who is in the final of the French Open for the first time. It was the first time that the sinner has lost a Grand Chelem final.

It was also the longest Open of France.

Sinner is on a sequence of 20 consecutive victories in the Grand Chelem tournaments, after winning the We open and the Australian Open.

Alcaraz, 22, has a file of 21-1 on Tour on Clay this year and beat the 23-year-old sinner in their last four meetings.

Publisher’s note: An earlier version of this story has misized the name of Sinner.