Jack Draper and Mirra Andreeva have chance to complete tennis feat only 11 other players have ever managed in Miami

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Jack Draper and Mirra Andreeva head into the Miami Open at the very top of their games, having just won at Indian Wells.

Tim Henman thinks Draper can still improve, after the latter beat Holger Rune to win the ATP Masters 1000 title in California.

British number one Draper soar to a career-high seventh in the world rankings following his win at the hard court event.

Russian star Andreeva meanwhile defeated Aryna Sabalenka in the WTA 1000 event final, also securing a career-high rank.

Andreeva was nervous during the entire Indian Wells final, but is now up to sixth in the world after beating number one Sabalenka.

Jack Draper and Mirra Andreeva can join 11 Sunshine Double winners

The two champions now take on another ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 event next in the schedule, looking to follow in the footsteps of the players to have won Indian Wells and Miami Open back-to-back.

A total of 11 players have achieved the Sunshine Double; seven on the ATP Tour and four on the WTA Tour.

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Men’s Sunshine Double winners

– 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)

Women’s Sunshine Double winners

– Steffi Graf (1994, 1996)
– Kim Clijsters (2005)
– Victoria Azarenka (2016)
– Iga Swiatek (2022)

Mirra Andreeva and Jack Draper learn Miami Open potential opponents

Both Draper and Andreeva have huge challenges ahead of them in trying to make history, with both starting out in the round of 64.

But they will, of course, be joining an exclusive list of legendary figures should they achieve the Sunshine Double.

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And that may just give them extra motivation, although it remains to be seen how fit they will be physically after lengthy runs in the desert.

Draper and Andreeva knocked out many big names on their way to their respective titles, and may just need a bit more recovery time than their opponents in Miami, which they simply won’t get.

Sixth seed Draper faces a tricky test against the winner of Roberto Bautista Agut and Jakub Mensik in his opener, while 11th seed Andreeva meets either Veronika Kudermetova or Wang Xinyu.