In their finals on Saturday and Sunday, Elina Svitolina and Jannik Sinner each managed to encapsulate their two-week Rome title runs with one late-match moment of brilliance. Svitolina’s came when she was up 4-2 in the third against Coco Gauff and trying to clinch an insurance break.

Jannik Sinner continues to rewrite the tennis history books. The 24-year-old world No. 1 became the first Italian man in 50 years to win the Italian Open when he defeated Casper Ruud, 6-4, 6-4, in Sunday’s final. Adriano Panatta was the last Italian man to take the title in 1976.

Most tennis players — even some of the very best ones — have days where they struggle and don’t feel the ball the way that they want to. For top-ranked Jannik Sinner, those types of days are getting rarer and rarer.

Jannik Sinner is the clear 2026 French Open favorite with Carlos Alcaraz sidelined. Here are the clay-court contenders who could stop him.

What’s happening at the French Open? Tennis-watchers became unmoored yesterday when world number-one Jannik Sinner —as close to a shoo-in to win this, the last major he’d need to complete a career slam,