Spain’s young tennis star Carlos Alkaraj captured the French Open 2025 men’s singles title on Sunday. During this time, the second player of the world surprised the world by defeating top seed and world number one Yanik Sinner in a thrilling match of five sets. Alkaraja defeated the sinner 4-6, 6-7, 6-4, 7-6, 7-6. The match lasted for five hours 29 minutes in which Alkaraj saved three matches points and broke the 20 consecutive wins at the Grand Slam in Sinner.
At the beginning of the match, Sinner took the first and second set to take lead. Cinner, who had won the US Open and the Australian Open title this year, landed in Paris with the intention of completing the Grand Slam hat -trick. But 22 -year -old Alkaraj did not give up and made a good comeback, winning the next three sets and won the title. This is his fifth Grand Slam title and the special thing is that he has not lost any Grand Slam final so far. At the same time, Sinner suffered a defeat in a Grand Slam final for the first time.
With this victory, Alkaraj’s Clay is a record of this season on the court of 22 wins and 1 defeat. He registered his eighth win against Sinner, including five consecutive wins. On the other hand, Sinner has defeated Alkaraj four times so far.
At the same time, after winning the French Open title, Carlos Alkaraj received a prize money of Rs 25 crore 94 lakh. With this victory, his total career earning has reached $ 44.7 million and he is now ranked seventh in the list of highest grossing players in tennis history where he overtook the legendary Pete Sampras. At the same time, Yanik Sinner, who lost in the final, received 1.35 million euros i.e. about 13 crore 20 lakh rupees and their total earnings have been 41.5 million dollars.
