Jannik Sinner Sweeps Miami Open to Complete Historic Set-Free Sunshine Double

Jannik Sinner defeated Jiri Lehecka 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday to win the 2026 Miami Open and complete the Sunshine Double, becoming the first man to achieve the feat without dropping a single set in either tournament. The Italian world number two, playing at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, won his second Miami Open title in three years and extended his winning streak at the venue to 12 matches dating to 2024. Sinner is the first man to complete the Sunshine Double since Roger Federer in 2017, joining a club that also includes Novak Djokovic, Andre Agassi, Marcelo Rios, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, and Jim Courier. The victory also marked Sinner's seventh ATP Masters 1000 title, his third in a row following Paris at the end of 2025 and Indian Wells two weeks earlier.

Rain delays twice, Sinner barely notices The final was interrupted twice by rain for approximately 90 minutes in total, with the second stoppage coming at the very start of the second set. Sinner kept loose during both delays, passing a soccer ball around with members of his team on the court. When play resumed, he showed no loss of focus, breaking Lehecka's serve early in the first set to go 3-1 up and then closing out the opener with a hold at love. He fired 10 aces in the final and accumulated 70 throughout the tournament, the second-most of his career. Sinner won 92 (%) — first-serve points won in the final and saved all three break points he faced, all of which came in the fourth game of the match. He won his first 23 first-service points in a streak that lasted into the middle of the second set. Lehecka, ranked 22nd in the world at the time and playing in his first Masters 1000 final, fought off five break points over two service games in the second set before Sinner broke through on his sixth opportunity to lead 5-4 and served out the title.

Sinner serve statistics: 2025 vs 2026: First-serve points won (before: 79.5% (2025), after: 81% (2026)); Service games won (before: 92% (2025), after: 94% (2026))

Sinner and Sabalenka mirror each other's historic double A day before Sinner's triumph, Aryna Sabalenka completed the Sunshine Double on the women's side by defeating Coco Gauff in the Miami Open final. Sinner and Sabalenka became the first pair to accomplish the double in the same year since Novak Djokovic and Victoria Azarenka in 2016. Sinner's run of 34 consecutive sets won in Masters 1000 events underlines a streak of dominance at that level that has few modern parallels. The victory came one year after Sinner missed the 2025 Miami Open while serving a suspension for testing positive for a banned substance, clostebol. His return to Miami produced a title run in which he did not concede a single set across six matches. Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz, who was upset by Sebastian Korda in the third round, was absent from the latter stages, and Djokovic skipped the event due to a right shoulder ailment. The win moved Sinner to within 1,190 ranking points of Alcaraz ahead of the clay-court season, with the Monte-Carlo Masters set to begin on April 5.

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Over a million dollars in prize money, minus the taxman Sinner's prize money for the Miami Open title was $1,151,380, an increase from the $1,124,380 awarded to the previous year's champion. Because the tournament is held in the United States, Sinner faces a federal tax deduction of approximately 30%, amounting to around $345,414, leaving him with roughly $805,966 after deductions. Florida imposes no state income tax, sparing Sinner from the additional deductions players face in California, where the Indian Wells Open is held. Runner-up Lehecka received $612,340 for his efforts in reaching his first Masters 1000 final. Despite the defeat, Lehecka's run in Miami lifted his ranking to a career-high of world number 14, confirmed on March 30, 2026.

The Sunshine Double, combining the Indian Wells Masters in California and the Miami Open in Florida, has historically been one of the most demanding back-to-back achievements in men's tennis. Roger Federer was the last man to complete it before Sinner, doing so in 2017. The full list of men to have achieved the double includes Federer, Djokovic, Agassi, Rios, Sampras, Chang, and Courier, making Sinner only the eighth. Djokovic and Victoria Azarenka were the last pair to complete the double on both the men's and women's sides in the same year, in 2016. The Miami Open has been held at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens since 2019.

„We did a lot of work to be in this position, so I'm really, really happy, and I'm also happy to go back home now.” — Jannik Sinner via Reuters

„Making here the Sunshine Double here for the first time, it's incredible. It's something I would have never thought, because it's also difficult to achieve, and yeah, we made it somehow, so I'm very happy.” — Jannik Sinner via Reuters

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