{"id":217608,"date":"2026-04-03T15:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217608\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:40:19","slug":"miami-open-final-sets-all-time-tennis-channel-viewership-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217608\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Open final sets all-time Tennis Channel viewership record"},"content":{"rendered":"

History was made in Miami.<\/p>\n

Not only did Aryna Sabalenka complete her sweep of the Sunshine Double — becoming the first WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz player to do so since 2022, and just the fifth woman ever — but the final set an all-time viewership record.<\/p>\n

Tennis Channel has announced<\/a> that Sabalenka’s 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 win over Coco Gauff in the Miami Open final was the most-viewed women’s match in the history of the network.<\/p>\n

That broke Tennis Channel’s previous record, set less than two weeks earlier, when Sabalenka saved a championship point against Elena Rybakina in the Indian Wells final. In arguably the match of 2026 to date, Sabalenka won 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (6) to win her first BNP Paribas Open title.<\/p>\n

“It’s a dream,” Sabalenka told wtatennis.com shortly after winning her second straight Miami Open title. “It’s a dream that I’m living right now and honestly, I have no words because this is something that I would never, ever believe that I would be able to achieve.”<\/p>\n

The only other WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz players to complete the Sunshine Double are Steffi Graf (1994 and 1996), Kim Clijsters (2005), Victoria Azarenka (2016) and Iga Swiatek (2022).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Champions Reel: How Aryna Sabalenka won Miami 2026<\/p>\n

Sabalenka is next scheduled to play the WTA 500 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, which begins on April 13. The World No. 1 has never won the title in Stuttgart, but is a four-time finalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The WTA 500 Credit One Charleston Open and WTA 250 Copa Colsanitas Colsubsidio in Bogota, Colombia are currently airing on Tennis Channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"History was made in Miami. Not only did Aryna Sabalenka complete her sweep of the Sunshine Double —…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,5516],"class_list":["post-217608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217608","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=217608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}