Tennis-Sun-shining on Swiatek as world number one chases the 'Double'


  • Tennis
  • Thursday, 21 Mar 2024

Tennis - WTA 1000 - Dubai Tennis Championships - Dubai Duty Free Tennis Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - February 23, 2024 Poland's Iga Swiatek in action during her semi final match against Russia's Anna Kalinskaya REUTERS/Amr Alfiky/FILE PHOTO

MIAMI (Reuters) - Only 11 players have completed the "Sunshine Double", winning Indian Wells and the Miami Open back-to-back, but world number one Iga Swiatek comes to Florida looking to join an even more exclusive club of those that have managed a double-double.

Only two men, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, have won the double more than once while Steffi Graf (1994 and 1996) remains the only woman.

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