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2025 French Open – Men's singles final
The 2025 French Open men's singles final was the championship tennis match of the men's singles tournament at the 2025 French Open. A part of the Alcaraz–Sinner rivalry, it pitted then-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, 6–4, 7–6, 7–6. It was the longest French Open final in history, and the second-longest major final overall (behind only the 2012 Australian Open men's singles final, which lasted for 5 hours and 53 minutes).
Alcaraz saved three (consecutive) championship points—the most in a men's major final in the Open Era—and overturned a two-set deficit to claim his fifth major, marking his first career comeback from a two-set deficit. Alcaraz was only the third man in the Open Era to win a major after being championship points down, after Gastón Gaudio in the 2004 French Open final, and Novak Djokovic in the 2019 Wimbledon final. His two-sets-to-love-down comeback marked the sixth such comeback in a French Open final in the Open Era, the other five instances coming in 1974, 1984, 1999, 2004, and 2021.