Sabalenka enters Saturday’s final with plenty of momentum, as she previously won the Miami Open in 2025.<\/p>\n
The world No. 1\u00a0will be playing in her fourth consecutive final of the 2026 season and hasn’t dropped a set in her five previous matches at Hard Rock Stadium. <\/p>\n
Gauff’s path to the final wasn’t as easy, as her first four Miami Open matches all went three sets. Still, she’s coming off a strong performance during a 6-1, 6-1 semifinal victory over Karol\u00edna Muchov\u00e1.<\/p>\n
Gauff and Sabalenka have competed against each other 12 times in their careers, with both players winning six matchups. <\/p>\n
Sabalenka came away with a victory in their most recent meeting, defeating Gauff in the\u00a0group stage of the 2025 WTA Finals.<\/p>\n
Still, Gauff has shown that she can come back against Sabalenka and could do so again on Sunday. She memorably overcame an early deficit to secure a victory in the 2025 French Open final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabalenka enters Saturday’s final with plenty of momentum, as she previously won the Miami Open in 2025. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-209389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}