{"id":70450,"date":"2026-03-31T03:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/sinner-and-sabalenkas-sunshine-doubles-turn-up-heat-on-chasing-pack\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:56:12","slug":"sinner-and-sabalenkas-sunshine-doubles-turn-up-heat-on-chasing-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/sinner-and-sabalenkas-sunshine-doubles-turn-up-heat-on-chasing-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner and Sabalenka\u2019s Sunshine Doubles turn up heat on chasing pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Jannik Sinner\u2019s duopoly with Carlos Alcaraz looks unbreakable, Aryna Sabalenka is dominating despite a more competitive women\u2019s top 10<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I think it\u2019s all an individual sport,\u201d Jannik Sinner says, chuckling quietly, as he reflects on another triumphant fortnight at the Miami Open after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/30\/jannik-sinner-miami-open-final-jiri-lehecka-tennis\">his efficient win<\/a> over Jiri Lehecka. Sinner had been asked whether he was aware that his win meant the maintenance of one of the defining records of this new era of men\u2019s tennis: since the Madrid Open in April 2024, every tournament with Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz present has been won by either player. The duopoly continues.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, Sinner was far more focused on what the victory meant to him. By following his Indian Wells triumph with a title in Miami, he secured one of the greatest achievements of his career in the Sunshine Double. He has now won three consecutive Masters 1000 titles and 34 consecutive sets at this level. This was an immense feat, further underlining his enduring dominance over all challengers aside from his great rival, Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/31\/tennis-jannik-sinner-aryna-sabalenka-sunshine-doubles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Jannik Sinner\u2019s duopoly with Carlos Alcaraz looks unbreakable, Aryna Sabalenka is dominating despite a more competitive women\u2019s top 10 \u201cNo, I think it\u2019s all an individual sport,\u201d Jannik Sinner says, chuckling quietly, as he reflects on another triumphant fortnight at the Miami Open after his efficient win over Jiri Lehecka. Sinner had been asked &#8230; <a title=\"Sinner and Sabalenka\u2019s Sunshine Doubles turn up heat on chasing pack\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/sinner-and-sabalenkas-sunshine-doubles-turn-up-heat-on-chasing-pack\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sinner and Sabalenka\u2019s Sunshine Doubles turn up heat on chasing pack\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}