Ibiza nights and Tyrolean dawns: Alcaraz and Sinner after their Parisian epic

A week has drifted past, like a taffeta handkerchief carried off by the wind; yet in the maze of locker rooms the echo of their Paris duel still clicks, the pendulum of an ancient metronome. Five hours twenty-nine of opera buffa, a suspense fit to make Dumas blush: two sets and a break for Jannik Sinner, three squandered match points, and then the Murcian revolt—super-tiebreak, curtain, and fairy-lights.