Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka have helped achieve a rare tennis feat that has not been done for 10 years.
Sinner won the Miami Open after beating Jiri Lehecka 6-4, 6-4 in the final.
This enabled him to complete the Sunshine Double for the first time, after winning Indian Wells earlier this month, joining women’s singles champion Aryna Sabalenka, who beat Coco Gauff to win her Miami Open title.
Sinner and Sabalenka were not the only players to complete the Sunshine Double this year, as a 10-year record has now come to an end.
Three players/teams have completed the Sunshine Double in 2026
Completing the Sunshine Double is an extremely rare feat, with Sinner becoming the eighth men’s singles player to do so.
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It has been even rarer for a women’s singles player to complete the Sunshine Double, with Sabalenka just the fifth WTA player to accomplish it.
This is the fourth time that both a men’s and women’s singles player have completed the Sunshine Double, but it was also achieved in the women’s doubles draw.
Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend were moved onto a smaller court for their doubles final, but this did not stop them beating Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini to win back-to-back titles in Indian Wells and Miami to complete the Sunshine Double.
This is the first time that three players/teams have been able to complete the Sunshine Double since 2016, when Novak Djokovic, Victoria Azarenka, and doubles team Pierre-Hugues Herbert & Nicolas Mahut all did it in the same year.
These are the only two years where three players/teams have been able to complete the Sunshine Double, showing just how rare a feat it is.
While this is the case, there is still an even rarer tennis achievement that no WTA player has been able to do yet.
Every player/team to ever complete the Sunshine Double
The Sunshine Double features two of the most prestigious tournaments on the tennis calendar, and is therefore a very special achievement for a player to complete.
While only eight men’s singles players have been able to achieve it, both Djokovic (four times) and Roger Federer (three times) have been able to do it on multiple occasions.
The only women’s singles player to complete multiple Sunshine Doubles is Steffi Graf, who did so in 1994 and 1996.
| Men’s Singles | Women’s Singles | Men’s Doubles | Women’s Doubles |
| Jim Courier (1991) | Steffi Graf (1994 & 1996) | Jakob Hlasek (1989) | Jana Novotna & Helena Sukova (1990) |
| Michael Chang (1992) | Kim Clijsters (2005) | Todd Woodbridge & Mark Woodforde (1996) | Natasha Zvereva (1997) |
| Pete Sampras (1994) | Victoria Azarenka (2016) | Wayne Black & Sandon Stolle (1999) | Martina Hingis (1999) |
| Marcelo Rios (1998) | Iga Swiatek (2022) | Mark Knowles & Daniel Nestor (2002) | Lisa Raymond & Rennae Stubbs (2002) |
| Andre Agassi (2001) | Aryna Sabalenka (2026) | Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan (2014) | Lisa Raymond & Samantha Stosur (2006 & 2007) |
| Roger Federer (2005, 2006 & 2017) | – | Pierre-Hugues Herbert & Nicolas Mahut (2016) | Martina Hingis & Sania Mirza (2015) |
| Novak Djokovic (2011, 2014, 2015 & 2016) | – | John Isner (2022) | Bethanie Mattek-Sands (2016) |
| Jannik Sinner (2026) | – | Marcelo Arevalo & Mate Pavic (2025) | Elise Mertens & Aryna Sabalenka (2019) |
| – | – | – | Katerina Siniakova & Taylor Townsend (2026) |
Six men’s and women’s doubles teams have completed the Sunshine Double, but there have also been five players who have achieved it with different partners in Indian Wells and the Miami Open.
This includes Bethanie Mattek-Sands in 2016, meaning that there were a record total of five players to complete the Sunshine Double that year.
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