{"id":209592,"date":"2025-06-24T05:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209592\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T05:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:44:09","slug":"spains-carlos-alcaraz-triumphs-in-longest-ever-french-open-final-young-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209592\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s Carlos Alcaraz triumphs in longest-ever French Open final &#8211; Young Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyParagraph__StyledBlockElement-sc-4sxwoh-0 hVXIcN Body__StyledBodyParagraph-sc-1cgoct-1 UAQBx\" type=\"p\">Bad starts in grand slam finals are nothing new for Carlos Alcaraz. Each time it\u2019s happened, he has won the tournament anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyParagraph__StyledBlockElement-sc-4sxwoh-0 hVXIcN Body__StyledBodyParagraph-sc-1cgoct-1 UAQBx\" type=\"p\">But not in such dramatic style as the French Open final earlier this month. The Spaniard rallied from two sets down and saved three match points to beat top-ranked Jannik Sinner for his fifth major title in as many finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyParagraph__StyledBlockElement-sc-4sxwoh-0 hVXIcN Body__StyledBodyParagraph-sc-1cgoct-1 UAQBx\" type=\"p\">It was Alcaraz\u2019s second straight French Open title with a comeback after trailing 2-1 in sets to Alexander Zverev in last year\u2019s final. It was also the longest-ever French Open final\u2014five hours and 29 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyParagraph__StyledBlockElement-sc-4sxwoh-0 hVXIcN Body__StyledBodyParagraph-sc-1cgoct-1 UAQBx\" type=\"p\">In 2022, Alcaraz won his first grand slam title at the US Open, solidifying his status as a tennis star.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the YP Teachers Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Get updates for teachers sent directly to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bad starts in grand slam finals are nothing new for Carlos Alcaraz. Each time it\u2019s happened, he has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-209592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114736756813187416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209592","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=209592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}