PARIS: Carlos Alcaraz saved three championship points against Jannik Sinner to win his second French Open title in a row, defeating the World No 1 4-6 6-7 6-4 7-6 7-6 (10-2) in a five-and-a-half-hour epic that was settled by a match tiebreak.

Sinner held three championship points as Alcaraz served down 3-5 0-40 in the fourth set, but stayed alive and then broke the Italian in the next game. Alcaraz won the fourth-set tiebreak then held his nerve and produced a series of astonishing winners in the decider to win one of the greatest grand slam matches of all time.

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