Sinner conquers the rain and Lehecka to complete a perfect Sunshine Double
Jannik Sinner is in a league of his own. Twenty-four hours after Sabalenka completed the women’s Sunshine Double, he beat Lehecka 6-4, 6-4 to do the same — without dropping a set across either tournament. Thirty-four consecutive sets won at Masters 1000 level. The first man since Federer in 2017. Only the eighth ever. A record that belongs to him alone.
Jannik Sinner, Miami 2026 | © AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell/SIPA
Call him Dominator. And it might not be enough. Jannik Sinner won the Miami Open for the second time, defeating Czech seed No. 21 Jiri Lehecka 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday to complete the Sunshine Double without dropping a single set – the first man in the tournament’s history to achieve the feat, the first to win it at all since Roger Federer in 2017, and only the eighth man ever to claim both Indian Wells and Miami in the same season.
Twenty-four hours after Aryna Sabalenka completed the women’s Sunshine Double on the same court, Sinner wrote his own chapter in the same story.
The final was played against the odds. Rain delayed the start by more than an hour beyond the scheduled 3pm local time, and when Sinner and Lehecka finally reached the court the skies came back. The interruption arrived in the second set at 15-30 on Lehecka’s serve, before play resumed and Sinner closed it out with the authority that has defined his entire fortnight. He did not drop a point behind his first serve in the opening set, going 16 for 16.
In a first-set moment that captured Sinner at his most immovable, he found himself serving at 2-1, facing three break points – 0-40 down – and produced five consecutive unreturnable first serves. Three at 127, 126 and 127 miles per hour to save the first three, an ace out wide to reach advantage, another ace out wide at 128 miles per hour to hold. The Lehecka threat, real as it was on paper, found no foothold.
Lehecka, who arrived in the final having not dropped a service game across his entire run – the first man to reach a Masters final with an unbroken serve since Djokovic in 2018 – was finally breached repeatedly.
It’s something I would have never thought possible. It’s so difficult to achieve.
The Czech’s extraordinary week, which included wins over seed No. 6 Taylor Fritz and the demolition of Frenchman Arthur Fils 6-2, 6-2 in the semi-finals, ended in defeat against the one opponent in the draw capable of making his serve look ordinary. For Lehecka, it was a painful conclusion to the best fortnight of his career, a first Masters final slipping away before the player who has become his sport’s most dominant force on hard courts.
“I’m really, really happy,” Sinner said after the match. “I’m also happy to go back home now. Going back home with not only one but two trophies before the clay season means a lot to me. Making the Sunshine Double for the first time, it’s incredible. It’s something I would have never thought possible. It’s so difficult to achieve. We made it somehow. I’m very happy.”
The numbers from Sinner’s Sunshine Double are staggering. He extended his consecutive sets won record at Masters 1000 level to 34 – his own record, the most in the history of the format. He has won 17 consecutive matches at Masters 1000 events, including his clean sheet at the 2025 Rolex Paris Masters (not even counting the ATP Finals). He became the first player since 1990 to win three consecutive Masters 1000 events without conceding a set.
His record for 2026 stands at 25-2, with 34 wins from his last 36 matches. It is his seventh Masters 1000 title and 26th ATP title overall.
