By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday June 8, 2025
Photo credit: Mustafa Yalcin-Anadolu-Getty
Paris – Carlos Alcaraz made history by defeating Jannik Sinner in the pair’s first ever Grand Slam final in Paris. The battle lasted for five hours and 29 minutes, and goes down as the longest Roland-Garros final and the second-longest Grand Slam final in history.
Let’s have a look at some of the milestones reached by Alcaraz:
— Alcaraz wins his fifth major title, improving to 5-0 lifetime in major finals. Only one male player has won more major finals before losing his first – Roger Federer, 7.
— Alcaraz improves to 13-1 in five-setters, after completing his first comeback from two sets to love down.
— The Spaniard saved three championship points, becoming the third male player in history to save championship point in a Grand Slam final, along with Gaston Gaudion and Novak Djokovic.
— Alcaraz is the second player in the Open Era to win multiple Men’s Singles Major titles while saving match point(s) saved en route to the title (US Open 2022 and RG 2025) after Djokovic (US 2011 and Wim. 2019).
— The 22-year-old Spaniard is the 15th man in Open Era to win 5 or more Grand Slam titles, and joins Djokovic (24), Nadal (22) and Federer (20) as only men to achieve that milestone in this century.
— Alcaraz has won 34 of his last 36 matches on clay and is now 25-3 lifetime at Roland-Garros.
— Alcaraz became the third youngest man in history to win a fifth Grand Slam title, after Borg, 21, and Nadal, 22.
