Sixth seed Carlos Alcaraz clawed his way back from the brink of a shock second-round defeat at the French Open on Wednesday, to outlast fellow Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas in a five-set marathon that fully tested his title credentials.
The 19-year-old — who has taken the tennis world by storm this year — survived a match point in the fourth set and battled back from 3-0 down in the fifth, before winning 6-1, 6-7 (9/7) 5-7, 7-6 (7/2), 6-4 in a match lasting more than four-and-a-half hours.
