Townsend and Siniakova are just the sixth women’s doubles team to capture the Sunshine Double, with Townsend the second American to achieve the feat in the discipline. Lisa Raymond swept Miami and Indian Wells three times, with Rennae Stubbs in 2002 and with Samantha Stosur in 2006 and 2007.<\/p>\n
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Having debuted at doubles world No. 1 last July, Townsend is back in the Top 5 after her flawless March. She opened the month by winning the Austin title with Storm Hunter and has now won 14 consecutive matches dating back to late February. The Miami title was Townsend’s 14th tour-level crown and her fourth at the WTA 1000 level.<\/p>\n
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Townsend and Siniakova defeated top seeds Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini 7-6(0), 6-1 in the Miami final and also beat the Italians in the Indian Wells semis. They downed fifth seeds Anna Danilina and Aleksandra Krunic, 7-6(4), 6-4, in the Indian Wells title round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Townsend and Siniakova are just the sixth women’s doubles team to capture the Sunshine Double, with Townsend the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,97295,97296,91805,97297],"class_list":{"0":"post-212786","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-pro-media-news","12":"tag-professional-tennis","13":"tag-womens-tennis","14":"tag-womens-tennis-tournament"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212786","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=212786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}