{"id":560204,"date":"2026-03-24T02:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/560204\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T02:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:29:12","slug":"sabalenka-keeps-sunshine-double-in-her-sights-defeating-zheng-in-miami-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/560204\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka Keeps Sunshine Double In Her Sights, Defeating Zheng in Miami \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201ct\u2019s definitely super tough,\u201d Sabalenka said after her win over Zheng Qinwen on Mondah. \u201cGrand Slam is two weeks. These tournaments are, what, four weeks, almost four weeks. Playing a great tennis for four weeks in different conditions, that\u2019s really tricky and tough. Not easy at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka loves to set lofty goals, but the World No. 1 says she\u2019s doing her best to take it one step at a time. She will face rising American Hailey Baptiste in the quarterfinals on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Baptiste reached her first WTA 1000 quarterfinal with a rousing 6-3, 6-4 win over Jelena Ostapenko on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I kind of like chasing, but I\u2019m trying to take it one step at the time and not really looking that far,\u201d Sabalenka said. \u201cI think that\u2019s the best approach. But it\u2019s definitely not easy at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka is now 20-1 on the year and she\u2019ll carry a nine-match winning streak into her next match.<\/p>\n<p>Four women have previously won the Sunshine Double before, and the last to do it was Iga Swiatek in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>PlayerYearIndian Wells FinalMiami FinalSteffi Graf1994d. Coetzerd. ZverevaSteffi Graf1996d. C. Martinezd. RubinKim Clijsters2005d. Davenportd. SharapovaVictoria Azarenka2016d. S. Williamsd. KuznetsovaIga Swiatek2022d. Sakkarid. Osaka<\/p>\n<p>In other action on Monday, Coco Gauff got past Sorana Cirstea in three sets, reaching her first career quarterfinal in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think in the previous times I\u2019ve played here, I\u2019ve had some tough matches,\u201d Gauff said. \u201cMaybe mentally wasn\u2019t in there. Today I just wanted to stay mentally in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Mboko defeated fellow teen and sometimes doubles partner Mirra Andreeva for the second consecutive time, 7-6(4) 4-6 6-0, setting a clash with Karolina Muchova, who got past Alexandra Eala, 6-0, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Pegula and Elena Rybakina also set a quarterfinal clash, with Rybakina easing past Romania\u2019s Jaqueline Cristian 6-4, 6-1 and Rybakina taking out talented Aussie qualifier Talia Gibson 6-2, 6-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201ct\u2019s definitely super tough,\u201d Sabalenka said after her win over Zheng Qinwen on Mondah. \u201cGrand Slam is two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-560204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}