Jannik Sinner has completed a historic run in North America by winning the Miami Open title.
Sinner, the world number two, defeated Jiri Lehecka 6-4, 6-4 in Sunday’s final, becoming only the eighth man in tennis history to complete the Sunshine Double: winning Indian Wells and Miami in the same calendar year.
Remarkably, Sinner is also the first player in tennis history to complete the Sunshine Double without dropping a single set.
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Moreover, the Italian maestro has now won three consecutive Masters events without dropping a set: the 2025 Paris Masters, 2026 Indian Wells and Miami.
The 24-year-old has also entered the history books alongside Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
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Jannik Sinner has become only the third player in ATP history to win three consecutive Masters 1000 titles.
The first of these three was at the 2025 Paris Masters: where he defeated Felix Auger-Aliassime in the final.
Earlier this month, Sinner won his second in a row, defeating Daniil Medvedev to win Indian Wells for the first time.
And on Sunday, Sinner made it three straight after defeating Jiri Lehecka.
Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are the only other players to have won three consecutive Masters 1000 titles.
Remarkably, both Nadal and Djokovic won four consecutive Masters titles during their respective careers.
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Nadal achieved the feat in 2016, winning the Madrid Open, Italian Open, Canadian Open and Cincinnati Open.
Djokovic, meanwhile, won four consecutive Masters 1000 titles on two separate occasions.
Djokovic first won four in a row from 2014 to 2015, winning the Paris Masters, Indian Wells, Miami and Monte-Carlo.
A year later he achieved the same feat, winning in Shanghai, Paris, Indian Wells and Miami.
The first male player to complete the Sunshine Double
In 1991, Jim Courier became the first male player to complete the Sunshine Double.
The eight ATP players who have completed the Sunshine Double
- Jim Courier [1991]
- Michael Chang [1992]
- Pete Sampras [1994]
- Marcelo Rios [1998]
- Andre Agassi [2001]
- Roger Federer [2005, 2006, 2017]
- Novak Djokovic [2011, 2014, 2015, 2016]
- Jannik Sinner [2026]
Courier first won Indian Wells, defeating Guy Forget 4–6, 6–3, 4–6, 6–3, 7–6 in the final.
Later that same month, Courier completed the historic feat after beating compatriot David Wheaton in the Miami Open final.
A year later, Michael Chang became the second player to complete the Sunshine Double.
Six more players have completed the feat since, including Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.
Sinner, the eighth to accomplish the feat, is not the only player to have made history in America.
Aryna Sabalenka won the Sunshine Double in women’s singles, while Taylor Townsend and Katerina Siniakova did so in the women’s doubles format.
