Masters 1000 de Miami
Carlos Alcaraz is closer to achieving the Sunshine Double, the double of titles that would elevate him to history in the US
After a very negative start to the 2024 season, Carlos Alcaraz has the opportunity, just three months after the starting signal, to definitively turn the situation around and be crowned one of the best in history in a new record available to very few tennis players. He Sunshine Double circulates with him for the second consecutive year and to win the Masters 1000 de Miamicould complete this amazing brand that looks in the shape of doublet.
The first two Masters 1000 it’s from the season, Indian Wells y Miamihave coincided for many years and with great exceptions, in the calendario ATPwhere they go one after the other, and the characteristics of both tournaments, in the coast of the United States –west and east, respectively– make the sun one of its great characteristic elements.
This is how the nickname was born. Sunshine Doublethe honorary title awarded to the tennis player who manages to win the titles of Indian Wells y Miami consecutively, something that in this 2024 can only achieve now Carlos Alcarazwho in the year 2023 He was two steps away from achieving it, with an overwhelming youth that he maintains this season and that is one of the secrets of his successes.
In the history of tennis, several players have achieved the Sunshine Doubleby managing to add the Indian Wells Masters 1000 and the Masters 1000 de Miami consecutively. The fact of doing so in the same year is a sine qua non condition to acquire the vitola of this intangible award, since if not, the same Alcarazchampion of Indian Wells in 2023 and 2024 and Miami In 2022, you would already have your name among the lucky ones.
The double champions of Indian Wells and Miami
However, there are only seven tennis players who have the privilege, explained by their talent, of being part of the list of champions of the Sunshine Double, on the men’s circuit. The most notable is Novak Djokovicwho achieved the milestone on no more and no less than four occasions, in 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2016. In addition, Roger Federer He achieved it in 2005, 2006 and 2017, while the rest of the stars, the Americans Jim CourierMichael Chang – the youngest to achieve this –, Pete Sampras and André Agassi and Chilean Marcelo Ríos completed the double once.
Furthermore, in the women’s category, where the WTA 1000 de Indian Wells and the WTA 1000 of MiamiIn parallel with the ATP competitions, there are four tennis players who are joining the Sunshine Double bandwagon. Every Swiatekin 2022, was the last, although Steffi Graff, on two occasions and Kim Clijsters and Victoria Azarenka, on one, have also achieved it. In 2024 there will be no winner of the Sunshine DoubleSince the Indian Wells championSwiatek herself, was eliminated prematurely in Miami.
Ganadores del Sunshine Double (Indian Wells + Miami)
- Novak Djokovic: 4 (2011, 2014, 2015, 2016)
- Roger Federer: 3: (2005, 2006, 2017)
- Steffi Graff: 2 (1994, 1996)
- Jim Courier (1991)
- Michael Chang (1992)
- Pete Sampras (1994)
- Marcelo Ríos (1998)
- Andre Agassi (2001)
- Kim Clijsters (2005)
- Victoria Azarenka (2016)
- Every Swiatek (2022)
The Sunshine Double would bring Alcaraz closer to No. 1
Achieve the title of champion in the Masters 1000 de Miami is currently three steps away Carlos Alcaraz. The first must come in the quarterfinals, where they will face Grigor Dimitrova tennis player who already knows what it is to beat the Spaniard – in Shanghai 2023 –, but who is inferior, in theory, compared to the best version of Alcaraz that we are seeing both in Indian Wells y Miami.
ZverevSinner o Medvedev They also appear on the horizon ahead of the semifinals and a final in Miami that could be very relevant in the fight for number one. Once the number two in the ATP ranking was protected with his victory against Jannik Sinner in the Indian Wells semifinals, Alcaraz, who defends 350 points as a semifinalist of the Miami Open 2023could achieve, if he became champion, 650 points more, which would bring him very close to number one Novak Djokovicputting it into play in the first big event on clay, the Monte Carlo Masters 1000.
2024-03-27 17:19:10
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