{"id":493158,"date":"2025-06-08T15:05:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=493158"},"modified":"2025-06-08T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:06:26","slug":"alcaraz-beats-sinner-after-trailing-2-0-to-triumph-at-the-french-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-beats-sinner-after-trailing-2-0-to-triumph-at-the-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz beats Sinner after trailing 2-0 to triumph at the French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz completed a phenomenal comeback after losing the first 2 sets against Jannik Sinner, but eventually won the final 3-2 sets after a tiebreak in the deciding set and won the French Open for a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>The match started in the best way possible for Sinner as he converted 2 from 4 break points, and that was enough for the Italian to win the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set 6-4. In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set, each player converted one break point from one chance the winner was decided after a tiebreak as Jannik won it and continued his series of not losing sets at the Roland-Garros this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NO. 2 CARLOS ALCARAZ DEFEATS NO. 1 JANNIK SINNER IN A TIEBREAK AFTER COMING FROM 2 SETS DOWN \ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfbe<\/p>\n<p>Second straight Roland-Garros title and FIFTH Grand Slam title for the 22-year-old Spaniard \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>WHAT. A. MATCH. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oK9xhUFACd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/oK9xhUFACd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1931788563487596703?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set, Alcaraz started to play better and won it 6-4 after breaking his opponent\u2019s serve 3 times, as that was the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set that the Italian lost in this year\u2019s French Open.<\/p>\n<p>In the 4<sup>th<\/sup> set, Sinner had 3 match balls at Carlos\u2019 serve, but the Spaniard saved them all, and after that, broke Jannik\u2019s serve to force a tiebreak and won it to even the sets 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>The 5<sup>th<\/sup> set started with 2 games in a row for Alcaraz as Sinner had an opportunity to tie the games 2-2, but Carlos saved them to lead 3-1. However, the Italian evened the games and the winner was decided after a championship tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard dominated in the tiebreak as he won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 7 points and closed the set and the match with 10-2 points.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WHAT A MATCH POINT \ud83d\udca5<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolandGarros?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RolandGarros<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ocjYQIVUlt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ocjYQIVUlt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rolandgarros\/status\/1931789661413785784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz completed a phenomenal comeback after losing the first 2 sets against Jannik Sinner, but eventually won the final 3-2 sets after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":493159,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,17625],"news_category":[16714,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17857,18543],"acf":{"announce":"Carlos won his 2nd Roland-Garros title after defeating Jannik.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493163,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493158\/revisions\/493163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493158"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=493158"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=493158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}