MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. \u2014 Aryna Sabalenka beat Coco Gauff in the Miami Open women\u2019s singles final 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The world No. 1 overpowered fourth-ranked Gauff in the first and third sets with sizzling groundstroke winners and became the first player to accomplish the \u201cSunshine Double\u201d \u2014 winning Indian Wells followed by Miami in the same season \u2014 since Iga Swiatek in 2022.<\/p>\n
It was Sabalenka\u2019s second straight title at the Miami Open, GauIt was Sabalenka\u2019s second straight title at the Miami Open, Gauff\u2019s hometown tournament, and put her ahead of Gauff in their head-to-head record, 7-6.ff\u2019s hometown tournament, and put her ahead of Gauff in their head-to-head record, 7-6.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve pushed me to be a better player,\u2019\u2019 Sabalenka said during the ceremony, before adding about the crowd, \u201cYou always bring a full stadium.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
The match lasted 2 hours, 11 minutes and ended on Gauff getting broken for the fourth time with a wide backhand.<\/p>\n
Gauff fought back to force the third set, but couldn\u2019t maintain the momentum she appeared to get from the deafening crowd supporting her.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt sucks not to come out with a better result but I had a lot of joy this week,\u2019\u2019 Gauff said to the crowd. \u201cYou guys brought energy every day this week.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Sabalenka at times was frustrated by the fan noise, including when someone yelled \u201cout\u2019\u2019 during a long rally. She used a curse word at the fan and the chair umpire warned the crowd, but also gave a code violation to Sabalenka.<\/p>\n
\u201cI shouldn\u2019t be that rude, but come on, you cannot do that,\u201d Sabalenka said at the ceremony. \u201cSo let\u2019s agree we were both wrong, so sorry.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Gauff\u2019s off-and-on serve created seven double faults while Sabalenka registered none.<\/p>\n
Sabalenka broke Gauff in the first game of the third set, helped by a Gauff double fault and an unforced error. On break point, Sabalenka crunched a backhand winner.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was disappointed about that first game of the third set up 30-0 with momentum,\u2019\u2019 Gauff said. \u201cIt was an important game to win in that moment.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
The match was attended by Kai Trump, President Donald Trump\u2019s granddaughter and a golfer at the University of Miami. She posted a photo with Sabalenka at the tournament on social media Friday.<\/p>\n
Sabalenka, who earned her 24th pro title, said before the match she was happy Gauff had found her best tennis in her home tournament at which she had never gotten past the fourth round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. \u2014 Aryna Sabalenka beat Coco Gauff in the Miami Open women\u2019s singles final 6-2, 4-6,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-552918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}