MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Jannik Sinner rolled to a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Jiri Lehecka to capture the Miami Open men’s singles championship and complete the “Sunshine Double” on Sunday, a day after Aryna Sabalenka accomplished the same feat in a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 win over Coco Gauff.
The last male player to complete the double — winning the tournament in Indian Wells, California, followed by the Miami Open in the same season — was Roger Federer in 2017. Sinner is the ATP Tour’s first player to do so without dropping a set in either tournament.
“It’s very, very special moment,” Sinner said. “Coming here, performing in a good way after Indian Wells, means a lot to me. Physically, it’s tough when you come here (from California). You’re a little bit tired, but the motivation is very high.”
The second-seeded Sinner didn’t let either of the two 90-minute rain delays slow him. The 24-year-old Italian notched 10 aces in the final, giving him 70 in the tournament for the second most of his career. In the title match, he often had No. 21 Lehecka running from side to side with his precise, deep groundstrokes.
Sinner won his first 23 first-service points, a streak that lasted midway into the second set.
He became the eighth men’s player to run the table at Indian Wells and Miami, and he and Sabalenka became the first to accomplish the double in the same year since Novak Djokovic and Victoria Azarenka in 2016.
This was Sinner’s second Miami Open title in three years as he ran his Hard Rock Stadium winning streak to 12 matches dating to 2024. Last year, he missed the tournament serving a suspension for testing positive for a banned substance.
“It has been on my mind,” Sinner said on Tennis Channel of missing last year’s events. “I missed these type of tournaments. These are very important weeks.”
Lehecka, 24, in his first ATP 1000 final, was a big underdog, losing all three prior matches to Sinner.
Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz was upset by Sebastian Korda in three sets in the third round, and Djokovic skipped the event due to a right shoulder ailment.
The rain pushed the earlier women’s doubles final to the grandstand court. The doubles was won by Taylor Townsend and Katerina Siniakova, who beat Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini 7-6 (7-0), 6-1. Townsend-Siniakova also won the “Sunshine Double” for women’s doubles — the first time that’s been done since 2019.
A day earlier, the WTA Tour’s top-ranked Sabalenka overpowered the fourth-ranked Gauff to become the first female player to accomplish the “Sunshine Double” since Iga Swiatek in 2022.
It was Sabalenka’s second straight title at the Miami Open, Gauff’s hometown tournament, and put her ahead of Gauff in their head-to-head record, 7-6.
“You’ve pushed me to be a better player,” Sabalenka said during the ceremony, before adding about the crowd, “You always bring a full stadium.”
The match lasted 2 hours, 11 minutes and ended on Gauff getting broken for the fourth time with a wide backhand.
Gauff fought back to force the third set, but couldn’t maintain the momentum she appeared to get from the deafening crowd supporting her.
“It sucks not to come out with a better result but I had a lot of joy this week,” Gauff said to the crowd. “You guys brought energy every day this week.”
Sabalenka, who earned her 24th pro title, said before the match she was happy Gauff had found her best tennis in her home tournament, where she had never gotten past the fourth round before this year.