PARIS — Top-ranked Jannik Sinner has not yet dropped a set in his bid to win the French Open for the first time.
Second-ranked champion Carlos Alcaraz, the reigning tournament champion and his opponent in Sunday’s final, has dropped four sets along the way over the past fortnight in Paris.
Sinner has even only been pushed to one tiebreaker at Roland-Garros this year — in Friday’s semifinal win against Novak Djokovic — and is on a 20-match winning streak in Grand Slam tournaments. He won the men’s singles title at the past two majors, the U.S. Open and the Australian Open, with both of those hard-court events.
“Jannik, he’s the best tennis player right now,” Alcaraz said of the 23-year-old Italian. “I mean, he’s destroying every opponent through the semifinal.”
Still, the 21-year-old Spaniard has considerable factors in his favor.