The thrill of the 2025 French Open final may not have happened

On Sunday, June 8, 2025, Roland Garros in Paris, France, world No. 1 and Italian newcomer Wang Sina and world No. 2 and Spanish all-round fighter Alcaraz collided passionately and fought hard for 5 hours and 29 minutes to turn the 2025 French Open final into an epic match. However, Doufan thought that the thrilling final of the 2025 French Open might not have happened.

In the ninth game of the fourth set of the 2025 French Open final, Sinner led 2:1 in the set, 5:3 in the set, and 40:0 in the small score of Alcaraz's serve, and won three consecutive break points and championship points! With just one more point, Sinner would have come to an abrupt end in the final: Alcaraz failed to defend his title and Sinner won his first Musketeers Cup.

However, Alcaraz did not give up and fought tenaciously, and even miraculously saved Sinner's three consecutive break points and championship points. Alcaraz's precious three points were not scored by his bravery to score, but by Sinner's batting errors. In the first point, Sinner made a forehand attack in the tug-of-war and made a forced error; In the second point, Sinner received two backhand attacks to grow out of the baseline and made unforced errors; In the third minute, Sinner went to the net with a forehand in a tug-of-war, an unforced error. Sinner made three consecutive offensive errors in one game, which was unique in the game and was a rarity. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that Sinner was so unlucky, and it is not an exaggeration to say that God favored Alcaraz.

Sinner has so sadly missed out on three consecutive title points, and finally missed out on the 2025 French Open Musketeers Cup. And why didn't Alcaraz make a mistake in his tactical choice, and he was stunned to perform in the 2025 French Open final, forcing himself into a desperate situation again and again, making him so thrilling?

Alcaraz made a mistake in his choice of serve. Everyone knows that because of the characteristics of clay courts, even the best serve will be compromised, and it is not as powerful as in hard and grass courts. In addition, Alcaraz's serve was originally a relative shortcoming of his own skills, the ball speed was not fast enough, the ball quality was not heavy enough, and it was easy to make double faults. Alcaraz should face up to his shortcomings and give up the excessive pursuit of serve speed in the 2025 French Open final against Sinner, and instead pursue more service speed and landing point, and pursue the success rate of serve, especially the success rate of the second serve.

However, Alcaraz, in the final of the 2025 French Open, still revealed his shortness and pursued the speed of the serve, and as a result, he made seven double faults in the whole match (compared to Sinner, there was no double fault in the whole match). This phenomenon was especially evident in the first two sets. In the deadly ninth game of the fourth set, Alcaraz gave Sinner three consecutive break points and championship points, the second of which was a double fault on Alcaraz's serve.

Alcaraz also made mistakes in the selection of second serves. Throughout the match, especially in the first two sets, Alcaraz took Sinner's second serve, and it was really incomprehensible that he could retreat more than the first serve. As a self-proclaimed top player who advocates attack, how could Alcaraz voluntarily give up a rare opportunity to steal Sinner's second serve? This is tantamount to cutting off an arm, and if you want to break Sinner, isn't it even more difficult? Alcaraz had a break rate of just 50% (7/14) throughout the match, as evidenced by that.

Alcaraz made even more mistakes in seizing the opportunity to burst into the ball and volley at the net. 2003 US Open champion Roddick summed up Alcaraz's 7-6 6-1 win over Sinner in the 2025 Rome Masters final: "Alcaraz used a lot of methods, moving Sinner in the depth of the baseline and on the left and right, constantly pulling Sinner left and right, and suddenly releasing small balls to bring Sinner up, the purpose was to make Sinner tired of running, lose his balance, and not be able to hit the ball comfortably, and finally calmly defeated Sinner. It's a pity that in the 2025 French Open final, Alcaraz seems to have forgotten the experience of just defeating Sinner and winning the Rome Masters, and did not give full play to his agile and elegant skills and tactics, but competed with Sinner, who is as stable as a robot in hitting the ball, for the stability of the baseline attack. This is tantamount to self-destruction of the Great Wall, with his own shortcomings compared to others, the result can be imagined, Alcaraz was beaten passively almost the whole game, and the danger was full of dangers. Alcaraz scored 66 per cent of the games (22/33) in front of the net (mainly from the last three sets), just one percentage point worse than Sinner's 67 per cent (30/45), but 12 fewer times. For Alcaraz, who is accustomed to smashing balls and volleying at the net, where will this be his normal game stats?

Alcaraz made these three tactical mistakes to make the 2025 French Open final thrilling, and he and Sinner performed an epic summit showdown that will last forever.

(Source: Tennis Home Author: Colorful Bean Powder)