No, it wasn’t as long as many tennis experts said: a trio like Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal Oder Roger Federer there will be no longer. The big three pushed each other to each other 66 Grand-Slam-Triumphen (Whether Djokovic is getting another one is rather doubtful, he was against the semi -finals in the Parisian semi -finals Jannik Sinner without chance).
Now at least one duo is preparing to step into the traces of the three biggest players in the story. Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner left no doubt on Sunday that in good health they can move tennis for years. Not just because they are 5: 29 hours the longest final of the French Open history so far and that Second longest overall played (after Djokovic against Nadal at the Australian Open 2012/5: 53 hours), but how they played it.
With high -class tennis from the first to the last minute – in between, Sinner missed three match balls in the fourth set and lost 6:4, 7:6, 4:6, 6:7, 6:7. No wonder, they played here Numbers one against two.
As old as Rafa
And it may be fate that Alcaraz with Exactly 22 years, one month and three days celebrated its fifth Grand Slam title. Because just as old, exactly for the day, was Nadal, who also won his fifth major title in Wimbledon on July 6, 2008 in Wimbledon. A finger?
The 23-year-old Sinner only holds three Grand Slam victories, but is still high in the new ranking with a lead of around 2,000 points. And the Swiss Maestro Federer was only a few months younger in his third of 20 Major triumphs, Djokovic, with 24 slams of records, in the third prank 24.
Compare that will always accompany you. And yet completely different times have begun. The experts agree that the duo has raised tennis on a new level. “I never thought that I would say that after the Big Three, but it is faster than ever before and at a level that you can hardly believe,” says the Swedish legend Mats Wilander. His long -standing companion Boris Becker It was difficult to put the five sets of the final into one. “What a match, what a drama, what a level. It cannot be explained and grasped with words.”
Congratulations and recognition came from just a few minutes after the final Sandplage king Nadal. “What an incredible final at @rolandgarros!”, The 14-time Paris-Champ wrote on X.
Who should beat Alcaraz and Sinner? The Italian had won 20 Grand Slam matches en suite by Sunday. “It is an honor to be able to measure me with you. It was an incredible finale, thanks to everyone,” said Alcaraz at the award ceremony.
Thank you for seeing that we will see more endgames of the two. Because this was – you can hardly believe it – only the first summit at one of the four majors.