After three o’clock in the afternoon in Paris, Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev appeared on Philippe Chatrier Court to play in the first Roland Garros final in twenty years without any representative of the ‘Big 3’, Rafa Nadal, Novak Djokovic or Roger Federer.
There will be a new champion, emerging from the rivalry between the Spaniard, 21 years old and winner of the US Open 2022 and Wimbledon 2023, and the German, at 27 years old, who will pursue his first ‘big’ after defeating the US Open 2020 final with Austrian Dominic Thiem.
In the draw, at the direction of the chair umpire of the match, the French Renaud LichtensteinCarlos Alcaraz won and chose, as usual, to subtract.
This led to an unusual event when only one minute of the match had passed. Zverev opened with a double fault. Then a second double fault. He stopped and walked to his seat, dug into his racket bag and changed his racket.
Surprisingly, in a Grand Slam final that changes the main tool already in the minute of play. This did not help him save the game, which he lost, suffering the first break.
Source: La Verdad
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