Sunday features the championship matches in both men’s singles and women’s doubles.
For the fourth time in his career, Alexander Zverev is just one match away from winning his first Major title. At the 2020 US Open, he lost to Dominic Thiem in a fifth-set tiebreak, despite holding a two-sets-to-love lead. At this tournament in 2024, he lost to Carlos Alcaraz in five, despite holding a two-sets-to-one lead. And at last year’s Australian Open, he was defeated in straight sets by Jannik Sinner. On Sunday, he faces another Italian in Flavio Cobolli, who is making his Major final debut. This is Zverev’s best chance yet to win that elusive Major title, but despite being the favorite, defeating Cobolli is far from a given.
Earlier in the day, at 11:00am local time, the women’s doubles championship match features the top two seeds, as did the men’s doubles final. It will be Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend (1) vs. Anna Danilina and Aleksandra Krunic (2). Siniakova and Townsend have now reached the final at four of the last eight Majors, winning two of them. In this season alone, they’ve already claimed three WTA 1000 titles. Danilina and Krunic were the runners-up at this year’s first Major, as well as at this same event a year ago. They are still looking for their first Major title as a team. This is a rematch from the final of Indian Wells back in March, where Siniakova and Townsend won in straight sets. However, when these teams met back in January at the Australian Open, Danilina and Krunic won in three sets.
Flavio Cobolli (10) vs. Alexander Zverev (2) – Not Before 3:00pm on Court Philippe-Chatrier
Zverev is 34-9 this season, but it’s been over a year since he’s won a title. And he’s only reached one final within the past 52 weeks, which came this past April in Madrid, where he lost 6-1, 6-2 to Sinner. Overall he is 24-17 lifetime in ATP finals, though he’s lost six of his last eight, and of course the 0-3 record in Major finals looms large.
Prior to this fortnight, Cobolli had only once advanced into the second week of a Major, which took place last July at Wimbledon. The 24-year-old is 24-12 on the year, with two appearances in tour finals: he defeated Frances Tiafoe on a hard court in Acapulco, and lost to Ben Shelton on a clay court in Munich. This is just his sixth career ATP final, with a previous record of 3-2. Four of his six career finals have now come on clay.
Both players have dropped two sets on their way to this championship match, with Cobolli notably receiving a walkover in the semifinals from fellow Italian Matteo Arnaldi. That means Cobolli hasn’t played a match since Wednesday, and we’ve often seen how receiving a walkover late in a Major can negatively impact a player’s form, as it significantly disrupts their rhythm and routines.
Their head-to-head stands at 3-1 in Zverev’s favor. The German defeated the Italian in straights sets a year ago at this same tournament, and again defeated him in straights just a few weeks later on the grass of Halle. During 2026, they’ve split their two meetings, which both occurred on clay. Cobolli won in straights in Munich, while Zverev won in straights in Madrid.
The Zverev serve will be the biggest weapon in this final, and his serve has only gotten better as this fortnight has progressed. Across the last three rounds, he’s struck 19 aces with just four double faults, and only been broken once in each match. While Cobolli has been notching a similar number of aces and double faults, he’s been winning a smaller percentage of his first serve points, and he’s been broken many more times in each match.
If Zverev can maintain those serving stats, he should be able to procure his first Major title. However, maintaining his composure as the favorite to finally achieve that, and overcoming the scar tissue of so many tough losses in the latter stages of Majors, may be the deciding factors in this final. If Cobolli can play rather freely in the biggest match of his life, and use his speed to keep the match close and apply scoreboard pressure to Zverev, then the Italian could be the man to win his first Major title on Sunday.
Sunday’s full Order of Play is here.
