In a herculean display of resilience bordering on the improbable, Carlos Alcaraz surmounted a two-set deficit, extinguishing three match points en route to vanquishing top seed Jannik Sinner in a protracted Roland Garros final, thereby securing his fifth Grand Slam title in an unblemished finals record and cementing his status as a nascent colossus of the court. This epochal victory, Alcaraz's 20th career title at the tender age of 22, also inscribes his name in the annals of tennis as only the ninth player in the Open Era to claw back from a two-set precipice to claim a coveted Grand Slam crown, in a grueling 5-hour and 29-minute contest that now stands as the Open Era's longest French Open final, while Sinner, notwithstanding his defeat, exhibited exemplary sportsmanship, epitomized by his concession of a pivotal point in the 11th game, all unfolding before a constellation of luminaries including Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Spike Lee, Pharrell Williams, George Russell, and Antoine Dupont.