Sinner and Sabalenka both achieved the elusive Sunshine Double on the same weekend\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n
Jannik Sinner<\/a> and Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> over the weekend both completed a rare “Sunshine Double” — respectively becoming only the eighth man and the fifth woman in tennis history to do so.<\/p>\n The “Sunshine Double” consists of winning both the Indian Wells and Miami Open titles back-to-back. It is an incredibly rare feat in tennis that many modern greats including Rafael Nadal<\/a> and Serena Williams<\/a> did not achieve in their illustrious careers.<\/p>\n Men’s world No.2 Sinner and women’s world No.1 Sabalenka have now joined an exclusive club and are in the company of tennis icons such as Roger Federer<\/a>, Novak Djokovic<\/a> and Steffi Graf.<\/p>\n Only two players have ever won the “Sunshine Double” in back-to-back years — Federer in 2005 and 2006 and Djokovic in 2014, 2015, and 2016.<\/p>\n Sinner beat Czechia’s Jiri Lehecka<\/a> 6-4 6-4 in the Miami Open final to become the first man since Federer in 2017 to win the elusive “Sunshine Double,” while Sabalenka did it by beating hometown hero Coco Gauff<\/a> 6-2 4-6 6-3 in a rematch of the 2025 French Open that was won by Gauff.<\/p>\n Before Sabalenka, the last woman to achieve the “Sunshine Double” was Iga Swiatek<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n Full list of players to have achieved a “Sunshine Double:”<\/p>\n Men:<\/p>\n Jim Courier (1991) Women:<\/p>\n Steffi Graf (1994, 1996) Information from Press Association was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sinner and Sabalenka both achieved the elusive Sunshine Double on the same weekend\u00a0Getty Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-574415","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\/574415","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=574415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Michael Chang (1992)
Pete Sampras (1994)
Marcelo Rios (1998)
Andre Agassi (2001)
Roger Federer (2005-06)
Novak Djokovic (2011, 2014, 2015, 2016)
Jannik Sinner (2026)<\/p>\n
Kim Clijsters<\/a> (2005)
Victoria Azarenka<\/a> (2016)
Iga Swiatek (2022)
Aryna Sabalenka (2026)<\/p>\n