Adriano Panatta lifted the Roland Garros trophy in 1976. Almost 50 years later, Jannik Sinner could have joined him on the special list of Italian victors in Paris. World no. 1 battled against Carlos Alcaraz and suffered a brutal 4-6,

The two best men's tennis players in the world delivered an epic Sunday — but how did their bodies and minds cope with the exertion?

The takeaways from Carlos Alcaraz’s fifth-set tiebreaker victory over Jannik Sinner in the French Open men’s final are multiple and significant.