New Delhi, June 6 -- PARIS - The question has followed Alexander Zverev across four different Grand Slam finals and several years of suffocating expectation. On Sunday at Court Philippe-Chatrier, he will finally have his answer.

Zverev will face Flavio Cobolli in the Roland Garros men's final, a match that pits the sport's most decorated near-miss finisher against a 24-year-old Italian who was losing to a 186th-ranked qualifier in Melbourne just five months ago. Neither man has won a Grand Slam title. One of them will on Sunday. The question of which one carries considerably more weight for the German.

Three times Zverev has arrived at this stage. Three times he has left without the trophy. The 2020 US Open slipped away over five sets t...