Miami Open 2024 tennis: Jannik Sinner, Danielle Collins bag ...
Italy’s Jannik Sinner won the men’s singles crown at the Miami Open 2024 tennis tournament in Florida on Monday.
Sinner beat Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov 6-3, 6-1 in the 72-minute-long final at Hard Rock Stadium. The Italian tennis player faced just a single break point in the entire match.
The ATP Masters 1000 win also lifts Sinner to the No. 2 spot in the men’s singles tennis rankings. This was also Sinner’s third ATP title of the year after the Australian Open and the Rotterdam Indoors crowns.
Meanwhile, Florida proved to be the fairytale backdrop to USA’s Danielle Collins, who is in her final season as a pro. The American beat Kazakh fourth seed Elena Rybakina 7-5, 6-3 on Saturday to claim what was her first WTA 1000 singles tennis title of her career.
Collins became only the fourth American after Serena Williams, Venus Williams and Sloane Stephens to win the Miami Open singles crown.
The Indo-Australian pair of Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden, who won the Australian Open earlier this year, took the men’s doubles crown after beating the second-seeded team of Croatia’s Ivan Dodig and American Austin Krajicek 6(3)-7(7), 6-3, 10-6.
It was Bopanna and Ebden’s second ATP Masters title after last year’s Indian Wells.
In women’s doubles, the all-American team of Sofia Kenin and Bethanie Mattek-Sands upset Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada and Erin Routliffe of New Zealand, the second seeds and US Open champions, 4-6, 7(7)-6(5), 11-9 in a stretched-out two-hour long final match.
Kenin and Mattek-Sands, who won the Abu Dhabi Open in February, interestingly, started the Miami Open as alternates and only made the main draw following the withdrawal of Marie Bouzkova and Sara Sorribes Tormo.
Miami Open 2024 tennis winners Men’s singles: Jannik Sinner (Italy) Men’s doubles: Rohan Bopanna (India)/Matthew Ebden (Australia) Women’s singles: Danielle Collins (USA) Women’s doubles: Sofia Kenin/Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) Add these to your favourites
