Roland-Garros wrap - Sunday June 8

One last dispatch from the grounds at Porte D'Auteuil on men’s finals day

Carlos Alcaraz / Finale, photographes, Roland-Garros 2025©Pauline Ballet / FFT
 - Lee Goodall

What better way to bring the curtain down on a memorable three weeks of clay court tennis than with a weekend that gave us not one but two extraordinary singles finals.

Twenty-four hours after Coco Gauff’s remarkable three-set win over Aryna Sabalenka, it was Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner treating us to one of the greatest men’s finals of all time.

From two sets down and from three match points down at 3-5 in the fourth, somehow the Spaniard conjured up an escape act for the ages to scramble past Jannik Sinner in a fifth set deciding tiebreak 10-2.

It was the longest Roland-Garros final in the Open era and the second-longest at all the four majors. The final blow came from the Spaniard’s racket after five hours and 29 minutes to deliver a fifth Grand Slam trophy and a second in the French capital for the 22-year-old.

After the red brick dust had settled on Court Philippe-Chatrier, Dam Imhoff sat in on the champion’s press conference to hear Alcaraz tell the media how he did it, what it felt like - and what it all means.

And Alex Sharp listened to Sinner try to make sense of an afternoon when on three occasions he was just a point away from his first Paris crown.

Earlier, Sara Errani won her second Roland-Garros trophy in four days as the 38-year-old added the women’s doubles silverware to the mixed trophy she picked up on Thursday.

It’s a sixth major women’s doubles title for the Italian, and the first alongside partner Jasmine Paolini after they won the Olympic doubles gold medal on the same court last summer.

And that, as they say, is that.

Time to bid you all au revoir then after another enjoyable stay in the western suburb of Paris that is Boulogne-Billancourt.

Before you leave us, enjoy Chris Oddo’s final Postcard from Paris and linger over more of the quite stunning imagery taken by the expert team of FFT photographers over the last three weeks.

They even took the time to choose their own personal favourites and explained what they meant.

Roland-Garros 2025 champions gallery

Thanks for your company over 21 days of Roland-Garros tennis - for watching the drama unfold, reading our words, listening on RG radio and enjoying this wonderful sport.

Until next time…