{"id":211155,"date":"2026-03-30T01:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/211155\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T01:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:15:08","slug":"sinner-dispatches-lehecka-in-miami-open-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/211155\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner dispatches Lehecka in Miami Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By MARC BERMAN<\/p>\n<p>MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Jannik Sinner rolled to a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Jiri Lehecka to capture the Miami Open title and complete the \u201cSunshine Double\u2019\u2019 on Sunday, a day after Aryna Sabalenka <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/miami-open-sabalenka-gauff-67bdf8b6058a9b721235c0d41d8d556d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accomplished the same feat<\/a> in a win over Coco Gauff.<\/p>\n<p>The last male player to complete the double \u2014 winning Indian Wells followed by Miami in the same season \u2014 was Roger Federer in 2017. Sinner is the first male to do so without dropping a set in either tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The second-seeded Sinner didn\u2019t let either of the two 90-minute rain delays slow him. He notched 10 aces in the final, and 70 in the tournament for the second-most of his career. He often had No. 21 Lehecka running from side to side with his precise, deep groundstrokes.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner, 24, won his first 23 first-service points \u2014 a streak that lasted midway into the second set.<\/p>\n<p>He became the eighth male to run the table at Indian Wells and Miami, and him and Sabalenka became the first to accomplish the double in the same year since Novak Djokovic and Victoria Azarenka in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>This was Sinner\u2019s second Miami Open title in three years as he ran his Hard Rock Stadium win streak to 12 matches dating to 2024. Last year, he missed the tournament <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jannik-sinner-doping-ban-three-months-wada-05989b3a5276de498a005feaaf705339\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">serving a suspension<\/a> for testing positive for a banned substance.<\/p>\n<p>Lehecka, 24, in his first ATP 1000 final, was a big underdog, losing all three prior matches to Sinner.<\/p>\n<p>Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/alcaraz-miami-open-483560829bca8e28f6da25a77241f23d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was upset by Sebastian Korda<\/a> in three sets in the third round, and Djokovic skipped the event due to a right shoulder ailment.<\/p>\n<p>The rain pushed the earlier women\u2019s 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 claimed the double for women\u2019s doubles \u2014 the first time since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP tennis: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By MARC BERMAN MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Jannik Sinner rolled to a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Jiri&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,110,32029],"class_list":{"0":"post-211155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-miami","9":"tag-miami-headlines","10":"tag-miami-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211155","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=211155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}