MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Jannik Sinner rolled to a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Jiri Lehecka to seize the Miami Open title and full the “Sunshine Double’’ on Sunday, a day after Aryna Sabalenka completed the identical feat in a win over Coco Gauff.
The final male participant to finish the double — profitable Indian Wells adopted by Miami in the identical season — was Roger Federer in 2017. Sinner is the primary male to take action with out dropping a set in both event.
“It’s very, very particular second,’’ Sinner stated. “Coming right here, performing in a great way after Indian Wells, means so much to me. Bodily, it’s robust if you come right here (from California). You’re a little bit bit drained, however the motivation may be very excessive.’’
The second-seeded Sinner did not let both of the 2 90-minute rain delays gradual him. He notched 10 aces within the last, and 70 within the event for the second-most of his profession. He typically had No. 21 Lehecka working back and forth together with his exact, deep groundstrokes.
Sinner, 24, received his first 23 first-service factors — a streak that lasted halfway into the second set.
He grew to become the eighth male to run the desk at Indian Wells and Miami, and he and Sabalenka grew to become the primary to perform the double in the identical yr since Novak Djokovic and Victoria Azarenka in 2016.
This was Sinner’s second Miami Open title in three years as he ran his Arduous Rock Stadium win streak to 12 matches courting to 2024. Final yr, he missed the event serving a suspension for testing constructive for a banned substance.
“It has been on my thoughts,’’ Sinner stated on Tennis Channel of lacking final yr’s occasions. “I missed these sort of tournaments. These are essential weeks.’’
Lehecka, 24, in his first ATP 1000 last, was an enormous underdog, shedding all three prior matches to Sinner.
High-ranked Carlos Alcaraz was upset by Sebastian Korda in three units within the third spherical, and Djokovic skipped the occasion resulting from a proper shoulder ailment.
The rain pushed the sooner ladies’s doubles last to the grandstand court docket. The doubles was received by Taylor Townsend and Katerina Siniakova, who beat Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini 7-6 (7-0), 6-1. Townsend-Siniakova additionally claimed the double for girls’s doubles — the primary time since 2019.
