On Sunday the new champion of the Roland Garroswhich will come from an unprecedented final between the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz and the german Alexander Zverev. Both tennis players will play their first definition on the clay court of France.
In the first turn, Alcaraz (3rd in the ranking) He defeated the next world tennis number one, the Italian, in the semifinal Jannik Sinner by 2-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 and 6-3 in a changing duel that was played in the stadium Philippe Chatrier of the sports complex located in Paris.
Next, Zverev (4th) surpassed the Norwegian Casper Ruud (7th) with partials of 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 and 6-2. For the 27-year-old German it meant a kind of revenge, since after three failed attempts (the last against Ruud) he managed to break the semifinal barrier and will have the chance to win his first Grand Slam title.
The public took home two great semi-final duels as a souvenir. At the beginning of the day on Friday, Alcaraz had to fight for 4 hours and 9 minutes in view of Sinner and he was able to turn the result around, since the Italian was 2-1 in sets with wide parity in the fourth until a break by the Spaniard that ended up turning the set in his favor 6-4.
* Carlos Alcaraz defeated Jannik Sinner and advanced to the final of Roland Garros
The future world number one and first Italian to reach the top of the ATP rankings in history, suffered some discomfort in your left arm and legs They conditioned him and forced him to call the physiotherapist three times.
“Today was one of the hardest games I have ever played. The toughest I have played in my still short career with Jannik, against whom I hope to play many more. There are moments when you have to find joy in suffering,” described Alcaraz (21 years old) after the game.
For the man born in El Palmar and considered one of Rafa Nadal’s successors, it will be his first opportunity to lift the Musketeers Cup in Paris, but he could get his third Grand Slam, since at his young age he obtained the US Open (2022) and Wimbledon (2023).
Meanwhile, the clash against Ruud demonstrated Zverev’s ability to react after losing the first set decisively (6-2). The Hamburg native managed the adversity well and rediscovered his best tennis to win the remaining sets with authority.
His victory came with much less suffering than the one he achieved in the third round against Tallon Griekspoor (25th) or the one in the round of 16 against Holger Rune (13th), against whom he had to fight in five sets.
For the Norwegian Ruud, who had gone to the semifinals without playing due to injury before Serbian Novak Djokovic’s match, this elimination is a step back, after having been runner-up in the two previous editions of Roland Garros.
