{"id":211230,"date":"2026-03-30T03:15:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/211230\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T03:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:15:34","slug":"jiri-lehecka-satisfied-but-sees-big-big-room-for-improvement-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/211230\/","title":{"rendered":"Jiri Lehecka satisfied, but sees \u2018big, big room for improvement\u2019 | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami
\n Lehecka satisfied, but sees \u2018big, big room for improvement\u2019<\/p>\n

Czech is set for new career high following first ATP Masters 1000 final<\/p>\n

March 30, 2026<\/p>\n

\"Jannik<\/p>\n

Carmen Mandato\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Jannik Sinner ended Jiri Lehecka’s dream run in the Miami final Sunday.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n

Jiri Lehecka<\/a> has a lot to be proud of following his surprise run to the final of the Miami Open presented by Itau<\/a>. The Czech, who fell short to Jannik Sinner<\/a> in Sunday\u2019s title match, was competing in his maiden ATP Masters 1000 final, an experience that underlined both his progress and his hunger for more.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cI think that these matches like today against these guys are showing me that there is still big, big, big room for improvement,\u201d Lehecka said in his post-tournament press conference. \u201cI played, in my opinion, a very good tournament here. I was very satisfied with my game.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cBut today I again saw that there is still somewhere to go, and that I will really need to keep improving more and more if I want to be able to beat these guys in the final stages of these big events like Masters and Grand Slams.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nSet for a new career-high No. 14 in Monday\u2019s PIF ATP Rankings, Lehecka produced a commanding serving performance in Miami, going unbroken until the final. He saved nine break points across three matches and did not face a single break point in his two other matches en route to the championship match. Sinner wasted no time, ending Lehecka’s streak in the Czech\u2019s second service game.<\/p>\n

Still, the 24-year-old Lehecka is pleased with his standout serving performance in south Florida.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe way I was able to keep my key weapons working through all these matches was something that I was working towards in the last couple of weeks, months,\u201d said Lehecka. \u201cOf course I would love to hold my serve the whole year, but that’s not possible. Jannik played very good return games, and I felt during the whole match that he’s putting more and more pressure on me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nLehecka fell to 0-4 in his Lexus ATP Head2Head series with Sinner, but Sunday\u2019s clash was more of a contest than their third-round meeting at Roland Garros<\/a> last year, when the Italian cruised to a 6-0, 6-1, 6-2 victory. That three-set match in Paris took one hour and 34 minutes, just one minute more than Sinner\u2019s two-set win at Hard Rock Stadium.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cI showed today a better performance than in Paris, so I was focusing on not repeating the same mistake as back then,\u201d Lehecka said. \u201cWhich meant using my first serve as a weapon and going a little bit more to the net.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cAt last year’s Roland Garros<\/a>, I felt that these conditions were extremely difficult for my game style. We played under the roof, Court Suzanne-Lenglen, super wet conditions, heavy balls. I felt that he was the one who basically had all the weapons at that moment. I could not help myself with the serve. Every time I played a good shot back then, he just had plenty of time to counter it somehow.\u201d<\/p>\n

You May Also Like: Sinner wins Miami, becomes first man since Federer to complete Sunshine Double<\/a><\/p>\n

\nLehecka arrived in Miami with a modest 6-5 season record, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index, and now heads into the European clay-court swing buoyed by his latest performance.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cI made a final here, so I think that even the work on Monte-Carlo clay will be easier for me with that confidence that I bring with myself,\u201d said Lehecka. \u201cAnd at the same time, there is no better place to start the year on clay than Monte-Carlo. That place is amazing and I like to be there all the time when I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

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