Carlos Alcaraz: Spanish player wins maiden match over Alexander Zverev Roland Garros trophy for the French Open
After winning the French Open, Carlos Alcaraz becomes the seventh player—and the youngest—to win Grand Slam titles on all three surfaces. The Spaniard also revealed his ambitions to get an Eiffel Tower tattoo.
In the final at Roland Garros on Sunday, Carlos Alcaraz defeated Alexander Zverev 6-3 2-6 5-7 6-1 6-2, forcing the Russian to sweat but winning his first French Open championship.
With a four-hour and 19-minute marathon triumph at Roland Garros, the 21-year-old filled a hole like to Rafael Nadal’s.
In the opening round, Zverev, the fourth seed, had likely sent veteran warrior Rafael Nadal out on his shield for good.
However, teenage pretender Alcaraz defeated the German to become, along with fellow Spaniard Nadal, the only men to win the Roland Garros title before the age of twenty-two.
the youngest guy in history to hold the top spot in the world (19 years, 4 months, and 6 days).
21 years, 1 month, and 3 days old is the youngest person to have ever won a Grand Slam title on all three surfaces.
the first person to triumph in all three major titles on distinct surfaces.
“These past two weeks have been an amazing adventure. This is a dream come true since I’ve followed this event since I was five or six years old, and it’s a championship I wanted to win,” the Spaniard said.
Zverev played excellent tennis and put a lot of pressure on me with his serves, so it was challenging. Although I won the first set, I was actually in danger of losing. The wind and surface made things difficult, but we must figure out a method to modify our games accordingly.”
Along with his hard-court US Open victory and his Wimbledon grass-court triumph from the previous year, the Spaniard became the youngest person to win a Grand Slam title on all three surfaces when he added the Paris clay.
As the first set progressed, Alcaraz was the obvious aggressor, winning in forty-three minutes.
But after Alcaraz’s ill-advised return went flying into the crowd, Zverev’s forehand started to shine, and he broke for 3-2 in the second set.
Zverev leveled the match with a scorching pass that sent a cloud of dust shooting off the court as he set up a double break.
Early in the third set, Alcaraz found his game once more. A brilliant volley created three break points, the first coming on the Zverev serve in the entire set, and he converted the first to lead 4-2.
Alcaraz was, however, absent more frequently than his rival, and Zverev won five straight games, including a break point at 6-5, to take the lead.
Alcaraz broke with a devastating forehand down the line, however, having finally gained a service hold on the board and coming back from so far back that he was practically sitting on Bjorn Borg’s lap in the front row of the presidential box.
Alcaraz persevered to force a decisive set and required medical attention for his injured left thigh.
