Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz completed an extraordinary comeback to his second-straight French Open men's title in a thrilling five-set match against Jannik Sinner.

A transcendent match could not have been so in a shorter format — but Sinner and Alcaraz's exploits are the exception, not the rule.

The takeaways from Carlos Alcaraz’s fifth-set tiebreaker victory over Jannik Sinner in the riveting and record-breaking French Open men’s final were multiple and significant.