German Alexander Zverev won his first Grand Slam men's singles title on Sunday after beating Flavio Cobolli 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-1 in the French Open final.
Zverev is the seventh oldest first-time champion at a major in the Open era and is the first German man to prevail at a Grand Slam singles event since Boris Becker at the 1996 Australian Open.
The world number three took advantage of world number one Jannik Sinner crashing out early on the Roland Garros clay and twice champion Carlos Alcaraz being ruled out by injury.
Zverev, who lost his three previous major finals in New York in 2020, Paris in 2024 and Melbourne last year, will now hope to repeat the trick at Wimbledon in late June and early July.
