WATCH: French Open Champions Coco Gauff and Carlos Alcaraz celebrate with ball kids | Tennis News
Coco Gauff and Carlos Alcaraz emerged as the champions in women’s and men’s singles category at the French Open 2025.
Both athletes came back from behind to clinch their respective titles. While Gauff came back after losing the first set against Aryna Sabalenka, Alcaraz pulled off one of the greatest come backs after losing the first two sets and saving three championships points against world number one Jannik Sinner.
Alcaraz and Sinner played for 5 hour 29 minutes and the title was decided in the tie-breaker of the last set making it the longest final of French Open in the open era.
Only the best! #RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/9YmZF7vv4H
— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) June 7, 2025
As both the players celebrated their respective wins, a particular moment stood out where both of them celebrated with the ball kids after getting the trophy.
Carlos Alcaraz celebrating his Roland-Garros victory with the ball kids ❤️ pic.twitter.com/XOwMgo68ZN
— TNT Sports (@tntsports) June 8, 2025
In the video posted Roland Garros on X, Gauff can be seen telling the ball kids, “You are awesome”. Then she proceeds to celebrate with them, high-five all of them, take pictures and let them touch the trophy. In another video posted various media outlets, the ball kids cheered Gauff all the way as she walked down the stairs with her trophy shouting ‘Coco,coco’.
PURE JOY 🧡 #RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/BrEhsO3ClD
— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) June 8, 2025
Similarly, in couple of videos posted Roland Garros, Alcaraz can been celebrating with the kids. In the first video, he goes on doing a celebratory walk and joins them in huddle cheering and jumping. While in the another video, he is seen walking down the stairs like Gauff and ball kids cheering his name and Alcaraz celebrating with them.
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In the 2024 edition of the tournament when Alcaraz won defeating Alexander Zverev of Germany in the final, he celebrated similarly with the ball kids.
Among all the memorable moments from the tournament and specially the epic men’s singles final, the celebration with ball kids certainly stand out.
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