Tennis
French Open
ROLAND GARROS, PARIS — It was just like tennis dreamed it.
Five and a half hours of thrilling play and unrelenting drama between the two new stars of men’s tennis. The introduction to the wider world of a new rivalry that this sport hopes can carry the torch handed over by the Big Three of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
In serving up one of the best and most dramatic matches in tennis history, this felt like the moment Jannik Sinner, 23, and Carlos Alcaraz, 22, announced themselves to the world at large. Tennis needs their rivalry to be epochal and their first Grand Slam final against each other delivered beyond its most fanciful expectations.
