2025 French Open – Men's singles final
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The 2025 French Open Men's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the men's singles tournament at the 2025 French Open held at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. Sunday, June 8th, marked the date for the championship tennis match which pitted top-ranked Jannik Sinner against second-ranked and defending champion Carlos Alcaraz for the first time in a major final. After 5 hours and 29 minutes of play, Alcaraz defeated Sinner 4–6, 6–7(4–7), 6–4, 7–6(7–3), 7–6(10–2) which was on record for being the longest French Open final in tennis history. In all of Grand Slam singles final tennis history, only one match has lasted longer, that being the 2012 Australian Open men's singles final, which lasted for 5 hours and 53 minutes. Not only did the championship match make history for the duration of playing time, but it was also the first time in French Open history that a 10-point super tiebreaker decided a singles final. The 2025 French Open Men's Singles champion, Alcaraz, saved three (consecutive) championship points, the most saves recorded during a men's major final in the Open Era, of tennis and overturned a two-set deficit to claim his fifth major, marking the first come back from a two-set deficit in his career. After the match, Alcaraz made tennis history by becoming the third man in the Open Era of tennis to win a major after being championship points down, preceeding after Gastón Gaudio in the 2004 French Open final, and Novak Djokovic in the 2019 Wimbledon final. Alcaraz's two-sets-to-love down comeback was the sixth time that this particular comeback has occurred during a French Open final in the Open Era, the other times five times observed during the French Open finals of 1974, 1984, 1999, 2004, and 2021.