Tennis-Sinner beats Lehecka in rain-hit Miami final to capture ‘Sunshine Double’

Jannik Sinner beat Czech Jiri Lehecka 6-4, 6-4 in a rain-hit Miami Open closing on Sunday (March 30, 2026) to grow to be ​the primary man to finish the coveted ‘Sunshine Double’ with out dropping a ‌set.

The Italian world quantity two gained 92% of his ​first-serve factors and saved all three break factors ⁠he confronted en path to a victory that prolonged his string of Masters 1000 matches with out dropping a set to 17.

“We did a ‌lot of labor to be on this place, so I am actually, actually blissful, and I am additionally blissful to ‌return house now,” Sinner mentioned after the match.

“Making ‌right here ⁠the Sunshine Double right here for the primary time, it is ⁠unimaginable. It is one thing I’d have by no means thought, as a result of it is also troublesome to realize, and yeah, we made it in some way, so I am very blissful.”

Sinner, who ​performed round with a soccer ‌ball forward of a match that was delayed by about 90 minutes resulting from rain, broke early for a 3-1 lead after which leaned on his serve to shut ‌out the opening set with a maintain at love.

The ​rain returned in the course of the opening sport of the second set, forcing gamers off the courtroom for about ⁠90 minutes, throughout which Sinner once more saved unfastened with a soccer ball that he handed round with members of his workforce.

World quantity ‌22 Lehecka, taking part in in his first Masters 1000 closing, fought off 5 break factors over a pair of service video games within the second set adopted by a maintain at like to go 4-3 up earlier than Sinner took over.

Sinner made good on his sixth break level alternative of the second set to ‌pull forward 5-4 after which closed it out on his serve when ​he despatched a forehand volley to the open courtroom on his first championship level.

Sinner is the primary ⁠man since Roger Federer in 2017 to win the Indian Wells ⁠and Miami titles back-to-back, a feat referred to as the ‘Sunshine Double’ given the tournaments’ respective places in California and Florida.

By ‌doing so, Sinner joins a membership that, along with Federer, additionally contains Novak Djokovic, Andre Agassi, Marcelo Rios, ​Pete Sampras, Michael Chang and Jim Courier.