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New Delhi: In the longest final match of French Open history which lasted five sets 22-year-old Carlos Alcaraz of Spain defeated 23-year-old Jannik Sinner of Italy 4-6 6-7 6-4 7-6 7-6 to win the Mens Singles title for the year 2025. There was tough competition between the two players in the mega match that lasted for a record five hours and 29 minutes. Both had to work hard for each point. In the end Carlos Alcaraz won. Defending champion Alcaraz got the full support of the audience during the match. Won the fifth Grand Slam title of his career: This is Carlos Alcarazs second consecutive French Open and fifth Grand Slam title overall. Alcaraz defeated Alexander Zverev in the 2024 final. If Jannik Sinner had won the final it would have been his third consecutive Grand Slam title. Sinner had earlier won the US Open in 2024 and the Australian Open in 2025. But Alcaraz shattered his dream of winning a third consecutive title. Alcaraz has reached five Grand Slam finals in his career so far and has been successful in winning all of them. The first two sets were in Sinners name: World number one Jannik Sinner made a great start to the match against number two player Carlos Alcaraz and won the first set 6-4 in 65 minutes. Alcaraz tried hard to make a comeback in the second set. After a 6-6 tie the match was decided by a tie-breaker and Sinner won 7-6 after 69 minutes of hard work to take a 2-0 lead in the match. Alcaraz made a brilliant comeback: After trailing 0-2 Alcaraz won the third set by a margin of 6-4 and was successful in making a comeback. In the fourth set Sinner started brilliantly and took a lead of 5-3. But after this Alcaraz made a brilliant comeback and came to a 6-6 draw and showed a brilliant game in the tie breaker taking a lead of 7-3 and winning the fourth set by a margin of 7-6. Win and loss decided in 5 hours 29 minutes: After the match was tied at 2-2 Alcaraz and Sinner showed their best game in the fifth and decisive set. The final set also reached a 5-5 draw after 53 minutes of play. In the 67th minute of the fifth set both again came to a draw at 6-6. In the end Alcaraz did not give a chance to Sinner in the tie breaker and won both the set and the title by a margin of 7-6.