A little bit less than two weeks after the tournament kicked off in Paris, the French Open finals are now set: tomorrow at 9 a.m. ET, world number one and first-seeded Aryna Sabalenka squares off against the tournament’s second seed and the world’s second-ranked player, Coco Gauff , while world number one and first-seeded Jannik Sinner faces world number two and second-seeded Carlos Alcaraz on Sunday morning at the same time.
If that lineup seems somehow inevitable, the road there has been anything but: The Italian sensation Lorenzo Musetti seemed ready to derail Alcaraz in their semifinal earlier today, taking the first set and forcing a tiebreak in the second before a left thigh strain forced him to concede the match to Alcaraz early in the fourth set—a heartbreaking conclusion