The German, who had lost in three previous major finals, fought off a plucky Cobolli and his own battles with cramp to win a tense match 6-1 4-6 6-4 6-7(5) 6-1 on Court Philippe-Chatrier.<\/p>\n
And speaking to Eurosport Germany<\/a>, Zverev<\/a> said that he has received plenty of messages of support afterwards, including many fellow sporting stars.<\/p>\n “For me, private messages mean much more,” the 29-year-old said. <\/p>\n “Every top tennis player congratulated me: Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic. Rafa [Nadal] wrote me an exceptionally long message – I found that incredibly kind. <\/p>\n “Athletes from other sports as well: Thomas Muller, Mats Hummels, Joshua Kimmich. Dirk Nowitzki was following the match closely and even texted me during it. That really meant a lot to me.”<\/p>\n ‘I feel like I can do it again’ – Zverev says French Open win important for self-belief<\/p>\n Video credit: SNTV<\/p>\n Zverev explained that fellow German and NBA legend Nowitzki sent 10 “very short messages,” all of which were “brief.”<\/p>\n “It could have been written in one message, but he always texts like that,” Zverev said with a smile.<\/p>\n He also said that he was congratulated by the chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s nice that he found the time to watch the match and then spoke to me for five minutes afterwards,” Zverev said. “That\u2019s an honour, it\u2019s special. I hope he can attend a tennis match soon.”<\/p>\n Despite the time he has spent replying to all those messages, Zverev still thinks he is “probably a few days” from replying to all of them.<\/p>\n “I still have 1,600 unread messages. I\u2019ve been on my phone for three days now trying to reply to everyone,” he said. “But that\u2019s fine. I\u2019ll reply to everyone.”<\/p>\n Experts debate whether Grand Slam ‘floodgates’ will open for Zverev after French Open triumph<\/p>\n Video credit: TNT Sports<\/p>\n It is perhaps no wonder so many people reached out to Zverev to praise him after suffering so much previous heartbreak in Grand Slams.<\/p>\n As well as losing in his three previous major finals, Zverev suffered a serious ankle injury four years ago<\/a>\u00a0in the French Open semi-finals against Rafael Nadal, and two years ago lost in the final to\u00a0Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>.<\/p>\n And his victory this year in Paris ends a run of nine straight Grand Slams won by either Jannik Sinner or Alcaraz.<\/p>\n He is just the third man born in the 1990s to win a Grand Slam title, after Dominic Thiem and Daniil Medvedev, and does so on his 41st appearance at a major, the second-longest wait behind only Goran Ivanisevic (48, Wimbledon 2001), as confirmed by Opta.<\/p>\n The significance of the victory was plain to see as Zverev fell to the floor after the final point and could not hold back tears.<\/p>\n Add TNT Sports as a preferred source\u00a0here<\/a> to enjoy more\u00a0content like this.Stream top tennis action live on TNT Sports and HBO Max.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Highlights: Zverev comes through five-set final with Cobolli to win first Grand Slam title Video credit: TNT Sports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[199776,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-636032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-roland-garros-2026","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"picture\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-836bf69d-0bc7-4f95-8f3d-1b82cba4a313-85-2560-1440.jpeg\")
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