French Open: Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic win men’s doubles title

El Salvador’s Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic from Croatia triumphed over the Italian team of Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori with a score of 7-5, 6-3 to secure the men’s French Open doubles title on Saturday. This victory marks Arevalo’s second Roland Garros title in three years, while for Pavic, it completes a career Grand Slam, having won four titles with different partners.

For Bolelli and Vavassori, this defeat is their second consecutive loss in a major final, following their runner-up finish at the Australian Open earlier this year.

In the women’s singles, Poland’s Iga Swiatek dominated her Italian opponent Jasmine Paolini to win her third consecutive French Open title on Saturday, June 8. Swiatek, the tournament’s top seed, secured her fourth title in five years at Roland Garros by defeating Paolini 6-2, 6-0 in just over an hour. Throughout the tournament, Swiatek lost only one set, demonstrating her supremacy on clay courts.

Swiatek entered the final as the favorite and displayed exceptional skill at Court Philippe-Chatrier, conceding only three games in the entire match to clinch the title. She broke Paolini’s serve five times and only lost her serve once in the 58-minute match. Swiatek also recorded three love games, underscoring her dominance.

This victory makes Swiatek the first woman since Belgium’s Justine Henin in 2007 to win the French Open women’s title three times in a row. In the Open Era, only Chris Evert (with seven titles) and Steffi Graf (with six titles) have won more French Open women’s singles titles than Swiatek. She is now tied with Henin with four titles in Paris.

Swiatek’s next goal will be to win the French Open for a fourth consecutive time in 2025, a feat only achieved by Suzanne Lenglen in the 1920s and Jeanne Matthey in the 1910s.

Attention now shifts to the French Open men’s singles final on Sunday, where Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev will compete for their first title on the clay courts. The winner will become just the fifth different player in the past two decades to claim the prestigious French Open men’s singles title, a tournament long dominated by Spain’s Rafael Nadal.