
Zverev’s Paris breakthrough finally arrives
A title that had been years in the making Alexander Zverev is now a Grand Slam champion, and the wait ended with a hard-fought five-set victory over Italy’s Flavio Cobolli at the French Open. The final on Court Philippe-Chatrier finished 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-1, giving the German his first major title in his fourth final. The result carried extra weight because no German man had won a major since Boris Becker in 1996. Zverev was not even born when Becker last stood on top of that stage, which

