{"id":167318,"date":"2025-06-08T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T10:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167318\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T10:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T10:09:09","slug":"sinner-vs-alcaraz-start-time-and-how-to-watch-french-open-final-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167318\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner vs Alcaraz start time and how to watch French Open final today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World No1 Sinner and defending champion Alcaraz face each other in a grand slam final for the first time.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/jannik-sinner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>Sinner is playing in his first major since his three-month suspension after he tested positive a banned substance. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sinner.jpeg\" width=\"3200\" height=\"2134\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-eqUAAy kgsspP\"\/><\/p>\n<p>World No1: Jannik Sinner beat Novak Djokovic in his semi-final<\/p>\n<p>AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Before that, Alcaraz profited from Lorenzo Musetti retiring injured during their fourth set of his semi-final, having dropped the first before roaring back to take the second and third on Court Philippe-Chatrier. <\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s final will cap off a remarkable fortnight of tennis in Paris, with the women\u2019s event reaching its conclusion on Saturday as Coco Gauff beat Aryna Sabalenka..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/jannik-sinner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">With seven Grand Slams between Sinner and Alcaraz, Sunday afternoon\u2019s contest is guaranteed to be entertaining as the pair meet for the 12th time on the ATP Tour.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Spaniard currently leads the head to head by seven wins to four, having won four meetings in a row, in the recent Italian Open final, last year\u2019s epic five-set French Open semi-final and in a dramatic China Open final in October, plus the semi-finals at Indian Wells in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2218922865.jpeg\" width=\"5630\" height=\"3554\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-eqUAAy kgsspP\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Defending champion: Carlos Alcaraz beat Lorenzo Musetti in the last four <\/p>\n<p>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Sinner has not dropped a set en route to the final, blowing away every opponent that has stood in his way, including Alexander Bublik, Jack Draper\u2019s conqueror, in the quarter-finals. <\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz has had a trickier time of it, losing four sets before this encounter, but he has not been forced into a marathon five-setter all tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner vs Alcaraz start time<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 French Open men\u2019s singles final takes place on Sunday, June 8 on Court Philippe-Chatrier at Roland Garros in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The match is due to start at 2pm BST, which is 3pm local time.<\/p>\n<p>How to watch Sinner vs Alcaraz<\/p>\n<p>TV channel: In the UK, you can watch live coverage of the French Open on TNT Sports. Coverage starts from 1pm BST on Sunday on TNT Sports 1.<\/p>\n<p>Live stream: TNT Sports subscribers can also watch the action unfold live online via the discovery+ app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World No1 Sinner and defending champion Alcaraz face each other in a grand slam final for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[6359,5066,64894,4718,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-167318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","9":"tag-french-open","10":"tag-french-open-final","11":"tag-jannik-sinner","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114647201510795686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}