Welcome back to Monday’s tennis briefing sports The story behind the story in court over the past week will be explained.
This week, Miami opens Obtain singles title. Elsewhere, the men’s world No. 1 Jannik Sinner performed well in a match, with the sun not shining on the family players, while Mirra Andreeva used doubles to put his feet on the ground.
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How did the absence of the sinner make him the world’s number one without any difficulty?
At this year’s Australian Open, BNP Paribas Open and Miami Open, the highest rankings were obtained by men’s players, with the highest being the one who only participated in one of the events. The biggest ATP champion from the first Grand Slam of 2025, followed by Melbourne of California and Florida’s “Sunshine Doubles” and Florida’s “Sunshine Doubles” are sinners, who have not competed in the latter two tournaments due to his three-month anti-doping ban.
While the back-to-back Australian Open champion was receiving some training reps before returning to the tour in May, none of his competitors took advantage of his absence to exploit. It is almost guaranteed now that the sinner will still be ranked No. 1 when he starts making a comeback at his Italian Open home in Rome in five weeks.
Nominal second-place Alexander Zverev was also the last time he played proper tennis in Melbourne – the difference between him and the Sinner is that he has played five games since. But from the moment Sina beat him in the Australian Open final, the German looked like a shadow of himself, even though he went out at the 16th round of the Miami Open after India’s Wells lost his first game, despite reaching the final.
Sina’s main rival Carlos Alcaraz was defeated in Miami’s first game. In the Indian Well, he failed to recover from his first set of horror performance in the semifinals and lost to ultimate champion Jack Draper. Alcaraz occasionally looks like he’s lost in both matches – just like he lost to injured Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open quarterfinals.
Djokovic looked refreshing in Miami after his early exits to the Wells in India, but didn’t have to beat the top 14 players to reach the finals. When he got there, he completely lost the kind of game he won. His opponent Menšík in that final was excellent in 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4) wins, but the mid-size large servers and winning tiebreaks have been two of Djokovic’s calls.
Menšík, 19, and Draper of Draper, India, competed in the groundbreaking competition, but it is usually a very challenging month among Sinner established competitors.
Sometimes in sports, the most useful result of the player even appears when it doesn’t exist.
In March 2025, there is no doubt that the Sinner’s position at the peak of men’s tennis is not his single point.
Charlie Eccleshare
How does Andreeva use doubles to keep herself in roots?
It’s also Andreeva’s Sunshine Doubles, who won the Miami Open doubles with her close friend and fellow countryman Diana Shnaider, following her Indian Wells singles title.
Andreeva, 17, is unusual in the world’s top ten who continues to play doubles regularly, and can continue for a long time – because the benefit is more than just her tennis.
She and 20-year-old Shnaider usually do not have that kind of non-existent demeanor in the fight against singles, and they can only be helpless in the two young people’s mastery of professional tennis. The WTA tour schedule is scattered with prodigy burning due to the suffocating pressure of the sport.
The couple’s sense of humor came in handy, which interrupted them 6-3, 6-7 (5) during a long rain delay, defeating Spain’s Cristina Bucsa and Japan’s Miyu Kato 10-2.
This is Andreeva and Shnaider’s second title as partners, and their first team-up when they won the Olympic silver medal in August. Since then, they have talked about how much they like to play together and how it benefits them.
Diana Shnaider and Mirra Andreeva are playing the Miami Open doubles trophy. (Matthew Stockman / Getty Images)
“When we play doubles, we are nervous when we don’t like it,” Andreeva said in an interview at Melbourne Park in January. “So, for example, when the score is 5-4, we have to serve in the game, we both are trying to tell some jokes or just relax.
“We always make fun of ourselves, so if she hits an amazing shot. I thought, ‘Did you see it? Are you Roger Federer? I mean, come on, stop.” Then, I felt like she was shot and when I hit it well, she always likes: “My God, what are you doing?”
Shnaider has had a tricky singles season after a breakthrough in 2024 and he also feels the benefits and said in an interview in New York ahead of last year’s U.S. Open: “”I need to joke in court. I need some smile. I need to have some negotiation with a partner who enjoys doubles. Because for me, I’m just released from stress and tension.
“And I know she’s a very open person. She’s very excited. She loves to talk, she loves to joke and she loves to smile. So I’m like, ‘It’s the right fit’.”
Before their doubles win in Miami, Andreeva suffered a stressful single defeat against Amanda Anisimova in the third round, while Shnaider lost to Anna Blinkova in the second round.
They might pack up and leave Miami and do some rest or practice. Instead, both sides found something more valuable in the doubles court.
Charlie Eccleshare
What American men hope for is not “dual sunshine”
A few months ago, it seemed like a very special Indian well and Miami swing for American men.
With the world’s No. 1 sinner situation, the sport’s best Djokovic has ever been, and it’s a question mark, about to turn 38, it seems that for a bunch of competitors, there may be a vacancy for the best in the local area. The Americans are hard-working players who aim to make hay during the North American hard lineup swing, especially before a three-month trip to Europe and its organic surfaces.
Ben Shelton is about to enter the Australian Open semifinals. Taylor Fritz wasn’t far from last year’s Us finalist, finishing second in the ATP Tour final in November and won the Manchester United Cup with his country in January. Tommy Paul is the top 10 players. Frances Tiafoe is always fired for home fans.
After the end, Fritz, who was still fighting a right abdomen injury, performed best in both events, falling in the Miami semifinals in the third set tiebreak. He managed to lose his serve time all night. In the first and third set tiebreaks, several wrong decisions took him out of the final.
Shelton landed in the dormitory of Indian Wells, ultimate champion Draper. Not bad, he seems to have found his groove in California’s tough, tall, hard position. But then, in Miami, he lost to the wildcard, Hong Kong’s Coleman Wong.
Paul disappeared in 16 games against Daniel Medvedev in India’s Wells. In Miami, he lost to Francisco Cerundolo. He is 7-4 since entering the top 10. He lost 2-2 to FILS and WATANUKI YOSUKE in the Sunshine Doubles match.
Then went.
Learner Teen did not win the competition. Alex Michelsen won only one.
The weather is bad for family players in March.
Matt Futterman
Danielle Collins wins
Danielle Collins couldn’t retain her Miami title but ended up being a different trophy.
Collins encountered a dog hit by a car while she was in the city. She stopped, took the animal to a local veterinary hospital and saw it get the care needed, through surgery and oxygen for five days.
As the puppy stretched, Collins announced that she had adopted it and named it “Crash.”
“He was breathing back to normal, his wounds were recovering, and he would definitely enjoy all the love he received,” Collins shared on Instagram. The crash accompanied Collins for a while with Quincy.
“He was curious, affectionate and grateful, and this was a second chance to live. After being hit by a car, witnessing a dog staying in the middle of the road in so much pain, with many people driving by his curl-retard body.
Maybe not another trophy. But maybe better. For Callins, a good thing Collins decided not to retire at the start of the season.
Now, she will defend another title this week in Charleston, South Carolina, where she will seek to stay in the world’s top 32 and earn her next Grand Slam in Paris next month.
Matt Futterman
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🏆 Winners of this week
🎾 ATP:
🏆 Smaller defense Djokovic (4) 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4) Win Miami Open (1,000) in Miami. This is his first ATP 1,000 title.
🎾 WTA:
🏆 Sabalenka (1) defense pegula (4) 7-5, 6-2 Win Miami Open (1,000) in Miami. This is the 19th WTA Tour champion of the Belarusian.
📈📉 Rise/Offline
📈 Erah After running in the Miami Open semi-finals, it rose from No. 140 to a career-high 65th place.
📈 Smaller After winning the Miami Open, he rose 30 positions from No. 54 to No. 24.
📈 Tereza Valentová After winning the ITF W75 event in Slovenia, Murska Sobota rose from No. 211 to No. 170.
📉 Medvedev Since 2019, three positions from No. 8 to No. 11 have gone from No. 8 to No. 11.
📉 Caroline Garcia It was the first time since 2013 that it had brought 27 places from No. 74 to No. 101.
📉 Thiago Seyboth Wild The top 100 ATP places are left in the 15 positions from No. 96 to No. 111.
📅 Here comes
🎾 ATP
📍Horston: American Men’s Clay Court Champion (250) By Paul, Tiafoe, Michelsen, Tien.
📍Marrakech, Morroco: Grand Prix Hassan II (250) Features Tallon Griekspoor, Lorenzo Sonego, Otto Virtanen and Pavel Kotov.
📍Bucharest, Romania: Tiriac is open (250) Features Sebastian Baez, Gabriel Diallo, botic van de zandschulp and nishesh basavareddy.
📺UK: Sky Sports; Us: Tennis Channel💻
🎾 WTA
📍Charleston, SC: Charleston Open (500) Features Pegula, Madison Keys, Zheng Qinwen and Belinda Bencic.
📍Bogota, Colombia: Zurich Colsanitas Cup (250) by Marie Bouzkova, Camila Osorio, Iva Jovic, Alycia Parks.
📺UK: Sky Sports; Us:
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