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. Let's start with this: Anyone worried about how men's tennis would survive in the post-Big Three era can rest easy.

Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner didn’t just serve up a thriller in Paris – they stamped their rivalry as the next defining saga of men’s tennis,

Men's tennis needed this rivalry to be stratospheric. Their first major final against each other sent them into another galaxy