| Miami Open | |||||||||
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| Founded | 1985; 41 years ago (1985) | ||||||||
| Location | Delray Beach, Florida (1985) Boca West, Florida (1986) Key Biscayne, Florida (1987–2018) Miami Gardens, Florida (2019–current) | ||||||||
| Surface | Hard (Laykold) – outdoors | ||||||||
| Website | miamiopen.com | ||||||||
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| Men's singles | 👁 Italy Jannik Sinner | ||||||||
| Women's singles | 👁 Image Aryna Sabalenka | ||||||||
| Men's doubles | 👁 Italy Simone Bolelli 👁 Italy Andrea Vavassori | ||||||||
| Women's doubles | 👁 Czech Republic Kateřina Siniaková 👁 United States Taylor Townsend | ||||||||
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The Miami Open (currently sponsored by Itaú) is an annual professional tennis tournament held in Miami Gardens, Florida, United States. It is played on outdoor hardcourts at the Hard Rock Stadium, and is held in late March and early April.[1] The tournament is part of the ATP 1000 events on the ATP Tour and part of the WTA 1000 events on the WTA Tour.
The tournament was held at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, Florida, from 1987 through 2018, featuring the top 96 men and women tennis players in the world.[2] It moved to Miami Gardens for 2019. Winning both the Indian Wells Open and Miami Open in the same year is called the "Sunshine Double" — since they are a series of two elite, consecutive hard court tournaments in the United States and are held in Florida (the Sunshine State) and the sunny desert community of Indian Wells.
In 2023, the 12-day tournament was attended by over 386,000 attendees, making it one of the largest tennis tournaments outside the four Grand Slam tournaments.[3][2]
Since 2026 It is also an ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour tournament in the WT500 level for both men's and women's professional players in singles and doubles draws.[4][5][6]
Tournament names
[edit]- Official
1985–1992; International Players Championships
1993–1999; Miami Open Championships
2000–2008; Miami Masters (for men), Miami Open (for women)
2009–current; Miami Open
- Sponsored
1985–1992; Lipton International Players Championships
1993–1999; Lipton Championships
2000–2001; Ericsson Open
2002–2006; NASDAQ-100 Open
2007–2012; Sony Ericsson Open
2013–2014; Sony Open Tennis
2015–present; Miami Open presented by Itaú
History
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The initial idea of holding an international tennis tournament in Miami was born in the 1960s, when famous tennis players such as Pancho Gonzalez, Jack Kramer, Pancho Segura, Frank Sedgman, and Butch Buchholz toured across the country in a station wagon, playing tennis in fairgrounds with portable canvas court.[7] The tournament officially was founded by former player Butch Buchholz who was executive director of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in the 1980s. His original aim was to make the event the first major tournament of the year (the Australian Open was held in December at that time), and he dubbed it the "Winter Wimbledon". Buchholz approached the ATP and the WTA, offering to provide the prize-money and to give them a percentage of the ticket sales and worldwide television rights in return for the right to run the tournament for 15 years. The two associations agreed.
In 1982 the earlier WCT Gold Coast Cup tournament was played at Delray Beach that was usually held end of January early February. That event ran on the WCT Circuit until 1983 then was stopped. It was played at the Laver International Tennis Resort. This event was succeeded by the International Player's Championships hosted at the same venue and location in 1985.
The first tournament was held in February 1985 at Laver's International Tennis Resort in Delray Beach, Florida. Buchholz brought in Alan Mills, the tournament referee at Wimbledon, as the head referee, and Ted Tinling, a well-known tennis fashion designer since the 1920s, as the director of protocol. At the time, the prize money of US$1.8 million was surpassed only by Wimbledon and the US Open. The event's prize money has since grown to over $13 million.
The event was first sponsored by the Thomas J. Lipton Company under its brand name the Lipton International Players Championships.
In 1986, the tournament was played at Boca West. After its successful year there, Merrett Stierheim, Dade County manager and Women's Tennis Association (WTA) president, helped Buchholz move the tournament to its long-term home in Key Biscayne from 1987.[8] In keeping with ambitions of its founder, the tournament has been maintained as one of the premier events in pro tennis after the Grand Slam tournaments and the ATP World Tour Finals sometimes referred to as the "Fifth major" up until the mid-2000s.[9] In 1999, Buchholz sold the tournament to IMG.[10] In 2004, the Indian Wells Masters also expanded to a multi-week 96 player field, and since then, the two events have been colloquially termed the "Sunshine Double".[11][12]
The aging Crandon Park facility had been criticized as the slowest hard court on the tour, subjecting players to endless grinding rallies in extreme heat and humidity.[13] The land on which the Crandon Park facility stands had been donated to Miami-Dade County by the Matheson family in 1992 under a stipulation that only one stadium could be built on it. The tournament organizers proposed a $50 million upgrade of Crandon Park that would have added several permanent stadiums, and the family responded with a lawsuit.[14] In 2015, an appeals court ruled in the family's favor, preventing upgrades from being made to the aging complex. The organizers decided not to pursue further legal action and started looking for a new site. In November 2017, the Miami Open signed an agreement with Miami-Dade County to move the annual tournament from the tennis complex in Key Biscayne to Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida beginning in 2019.[15][16]
The stadium is primarily used for American football; a modified seating layout with temporary grandstands is used as center court. While it has the same number of seats as the center court at Crandon Park, it also has access to the stadium's luxury seating and suites. New permanent courts were also built on the site's parking lots, including a new grandstand court.[17][18]
The 2020 Miami Open was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic; the tournament was held with limited attendance, and Hard Rock Stadium proper was therefore not used.[19]
The tournament has had multiple sponsorships in its history. During its inaugural playing in 1985, the tournament was known as the Lipton International Players Championships and it was a premier event of the Grand Prix Tennis Tour. In 2000, the event was renamed the Ericsson Open and in 2002, the event became known as the NASDAQ-100 Open. In 2007, the tournament was renamed the Sony Ericsson Open. Since 2015, the international bank Itaú has been the presenting sponsor.[20]
Event characteristics
[edit]Beside the four major championships, the Miami Open is one of a small number of events on the ATP and WTA Tours where the main singles draw (for both the men and the women) involves more than 64 players, and where main draw play extends beyond one week. 96 men and 96 women compete in the singles competition, and 32 teams compete in each of the doubles competitions with the event lasting 12 days.
In 2006, the tournament became the first event in the United States to use Hawk-Eye to allow players to challenge close line calls. Players were allowed three challenges per set, with an additional challenge allowed for tiebreaks. The first challenge was made by Jamea Jackson against Ashley Harkleroad in the first round.
From 1985 until 1990, from 1996 to 2002, and again from 2004 to 2007, the men's final was held as a best-of-five set match, similar to the Grand Slam events. From 1987 to 1989, the entire tournament, in every round, was best-of-five sets. After 2007, the ATP required that the handful of ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events which had best-of-five finals switch to the usual ATP best-of-three match format because several times the participants in long finals matches ended up withdrawing from tennis tournaments they were scheduled to participate in which were commencing in only two or three days. The last best-of-five set final was won by Novak Djokovic against Guillermo Cañas in 2007.
Past finals
[edit]Men's singles
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Women's singles
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Men's doubles
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Women's doubles
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Mixed doubles
[edit]| Year | Champions | Runners-up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 👁 Switzerland Heinz Günthardt 👁 United States Martina Navratilova |
👁 Poland Wojciech Fibak 👁 Canada Carling Bassett |
6–3, 6–4 |
| 1986 | 👁 Australia John Fitzgerald 👁 Australia Elizabeth Smylie |
👁 Spain Emilio Sánchez 👁 West Germany Steffi Graf |
6–4, 7–5 |
| 1987 | 👁 Czechoslovakia Miloslav Mečíř 👁 Czechoslovakia Jana Novotná |
👁 South Africa Christo van Rensburg 👁 South Africa Elna Reinach |
6–3, 3–6, 6–3 |
| 1988 | 👁 Netherlands Michiel Schapers 👁 United States Ann Henricksson |
👁 United States Jim Pugh 👁 Czechoslovakia Jana Novotná |
6–4, 6–4 |
| 1989 | 👁 United States Ken Flach 👁 Canada Jill Hetherington |
👁 United States Sherwood Stewart 👁 United States Zina Garrison |
6–2, 7–6(7–3) |
Wheelchair men's singles
[edit]| Year | Champion[23] | Runner-up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| ↓ ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour ↓ | |||
| 2026 | 👁 United Kingdom Alfie Hewett |
👁 Japan Tokito Oda |
6–1 6–4 |
Wheelchair women's singles
[edit]| Year | Champion[23] | Runner-up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| ↓ ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour ↓ | |||
| 2026 | 👁 Netherlands Aniek van Koot |
👁 Netherlands Lizzy de Greef |
3–6 6–4 6–4 |
Wheelchair men's doubles
[edit]| Year | Champions[23] | Runners-up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| ↓ ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour ↓ | |||
| 2026 | 👁 United Kingdom Alfie Hewett 👁 United Kingdom Gordon Reid |
👁 Spain Daniel Caverzaschi 👁 Spain Martín de la Puente |
6–2 6–0 |
Wheelchair women's doubles
[edit]| Year | Champions[23] | Runners-up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| ↓ ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour ↓ | |||
| 2026 | 👁 Colombia Angélica Bernal 👁 China Zhenzhen Zhu |
👁 France Ksénia Chasteau 👁 Netherlands Lizzy de Greef |
6–1 5–7 [10–4] |
Records
[edit]| Player(s) | Record | Year(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most singles titles | |||
| Men's singles | 👁 Image Andre Agassi (USA) |
6 | 1990, '95–'96, '01–'03 |
| 👁 Image Novak Djokovic (SRB) |
2007, '11–'12, '14–'16 | ||
| Women's singles | 👁 Image Serena Williams (USA) |
8 | 2002–04, '07–'08, '13–'15 |
| Most consecutive titles | |||
| Men's singles | 👁 Image Andre Agassi (USA) |
3 | 2001–03 |
| 👁 Image Novak Djokovic (SRB) |
2014–16 | ||
| Women's singles | 👁 Image Steffi Graf (GER) |
3 | 1994–96 |
| 👁 Image Serena Williams (USA) |
2002–04 2013–15 | ||
| Unseeded winners | |||
| Men's singles | 👁 Image Tim Mayotte (USA) |
1 | 1985 |
| 👁 Image Jakub Menšík (CZE) |
1 | 2025 | |
| Women's singles | 👁 Image Kim Clijsters (BEL) |
1 | 2005 |
| 👁 Image Danielle Collins (USA) |
1 | 2024 | |
| Youngest & oldest winners | |||
| Youngest men's singles | 👁 Image Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) |
18 years, 333 days old |
2022 |
| Youngest women's singles | 👁 Image Monica Seles (YUG) |
16 years, 111 days old |
1990 |
| Oldest men's singles | 👁 Image Roger Federer (SUI) |
37 years, 235 days old |
2019 |
| Oldest women's singles | 👁 Image Serena Williams (USA) |
33 years, 190 days old |
2015 |
| Most finals reached | |||
| Men's singles | 👁 Image Andre Agassi (USA) |
8 | 1990, '94–'96, '98, '01–'03 |
| 👁 Image Novak Djokovic (SRB) |
2007, '09, '11–'12, '14–'16, '25 | ||
| Women's singles | 👁 Image Serena Williams (USA) |
10 | 1999, '02–'04, '07–'09, '13–'15 |
| Most doubles titles – teams | |||
| Men's doubles | 👁 Image Bob Bryan (USA) 👁 Image Mike Bryan (USA) |
6 | 2007–08, '14–'15, '18–'19 |
| Women's doubles | 👁 Image Jana Novotná (CZE) 👁 Image Helena Suková (CZE) |
2 | 1989–90 |
| 👁 Image Jana Novotná (CZE) 👁 Image Arantxa Sánchez (ESP) |
1995–96 | ||
| 👁 Image Jana Novotná (CZE) 👁 Image Martina Hingis (SUI) |
1998–99 | ||
| 👁 Image Lisa Raymond (USA) 👁 Image Samantha Stosur (AUS) |
2006–07 | ||
| Most doubles titles – individual | |||
| Men's doubles | 👁 Image Bob Bryan (USA) |
6 | 2007–08, '14–'15, '18–'19 |
| 👁 Image Mike Bryan (USA) |
2007–08, '14–'15, '18–'19 | ||
| Women's doubles | 👁 Image Jana Novotná (CZE) |
7 | 1989–90, '93, '95–'96, '98–'99 |
Sunshine Double
[edit]The Sunshine Double is a feat in tennis achieved when a player wins the titles of the Indian Wells Open and the Miami Open back-to-back.[24][25]
To date, 13 players have achieved this in singles, and 23 in doubles. Only one player has won the Sunshine Double in both singles and doubles, Aryna Sabalenka.
Men's singles
[edit]| No. | Player[26] | Title(s) | Year(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 👁 United States Jim Courier |
1 | 1991 |
| 2 | 👁 United States Michael Chang |
1 | 1992 |
| 3 | 👁 United States Pete Sampras |
1 | 1994 |
| 4 | 👁 Chile Marcelo Ríos |
1 | 1998 |
| 5 | 👁 United States Andre Agassi |
1 | 2001 |
| 6 | 👁 Switzerland Roger Federer |
3 | 2005–06, '17 |
| 7 | 👁 Serbia Novak Djokovic |
4 | 2011, '14–'16 |
| 8 | 👁 Italy Jannik Sinner |
1 | 2026 |
Women's singles
[edit]| No. | Player[26] | Title(s) | Year(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 👁 Germany Steffi Graf |
2 | 1994, '96 |
| 2 | 👁 Belgium Kim Clijsters |
1 | 2005 |
| 3 | 👁 Belarus Victoria Azarenka |
1 | 2016 |
| 4 | 👁 Poland Iga Świątek |
1 | 2022 |
| 5 | 👁 Belarus Aryna Sabalenka |
1 | 2026 |
Men's doubles
[edit]- Teams
| No. | Team[27] | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 👁 Australia Todd Woodbridge 👁 Australia Mark Woodforde |
1 | 1996 |
| 2 | 👁 Zimbabwe Wayne Black 👁 Australia Sandon Stolle |
1 | 1999 |
| 3 | 👁 The Bahamas Mark Knowles 👁 Canada Daniel Nestor |
1 | 2002 |
| 4 | 👁 United States Bob Bryan 👁 United States Mike Bryan |
1 | 2014 |
| 5 | 👁 France Pierre-Hugues Herbert 👁 France Nicolas Mahut |
1 | 2016 |
| 6 | 👁 El Salvador Marcelo Arévalo 👁 Croatia Mate Pavić |
1 | 2025 |
- Individuals
These players won the Indian Wells Open and the Miami Open in the same year but with different partners.
| No. | Player (individually) | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 👁 Switzerland Jakob Hlasek |
1 | 1989[citation needed] |
| 2 | 👁 United States John Isner |
1 | 2022[28] |
Women's doubles
[edit]- Teams
| No. | Team[29] | Title(s) | Year(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 👁 Czech Republic Jana Novotná 👁 Czech Republic Helena Suková |
1 | 1990 |
| 2 | 👁 United States Lisa Raymond 👁 Australia Rennae Stubbs |
1 | 2002 |
| 3 | 👁 United States Lisa Raymond 👁 Australia Samantha Stosur |
2 | 2006–07 |
| 4 | 👁 Switzerland Martina Hingis 👁 India Sania Mirza |
1 | 2015 |
| 5 | 👁 Belgium Elise Mertens 👁 Belarus Aryna Sabalenka |
1 | 2019 |
| 6 | 👁 Czech Republic Kateřina Siniaková 👁 United States Taylor Townsend |
1 | 2026 |
- Individuals
These players won the Indian Wells Open and the Miami Open in the same year but with different partners.
| No. | Player (individually)[29] | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 👁 Belarus Natasha Zvereva |
1 | 1997 |
| 2 | 👁 Switzerland Martina Hingis |
1 | 1999 |
| 3 | 👁 United States Bethanie Mattek-Sands |
1 | 2016 |
Notes
[edit]- ^ In 1989, Thomas Muster withdrew from the final because of a car accident.
- ^ a b Known as Championship Series, Single Week from 1990 till 1995, Super 9 from 1996 till 1999 and Masters Series from 2000 till 2008.
- ^ In 1996, Goran Ivanišević retired from the final due to a stiff neck.
- ^ In 2004, Guillermo Coria retired due to back pain, which later turned out to be kidney stones.[21]
- ^ a b competed under no flag due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
References
[edit]- ^ "2021 Tournament Schedule". Miami Open. March 12, 2021. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
- ^ a b "Crandon Park Tennis - Miami-Dade County". www.miamidade.gov. Retrieved January 3, 2024.
- ^ "Miami Open presented by Itaú Welcomes New Champions, Record Attendance and a Brand-New Hit Concert Series in 2023". Miami Open. April 3, 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
- ^ "Wheelchair Tennis". Miami Open. Retrieved March 27, 2026.
- ^ GODonnell (March 4, 2026). "Padel and Wheelchair Tennis Returns to the Miami Open". Miami Open. Retrieved March 27, 2026.
- ^ "Draws and Results – 500 Miami 2026". International Tennis Federation. ITF. Retrieved March 28, 2026.
- ^ "Tournament History".
- ^ "Sony Ericsson Open". Prolebrity. Archived from the original on March 16, 2014. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
- ^ "Murray wins Miami Masters title". BBC Online. May 4, 2009.
- ^ "Buchholz Is Selling, But Not Giving Up, Tournament He Founded". Archived from the original on March 16, 2014. Retrieved June 2, 2013.
- ^ Sias, Van (March 23, 2019). "The Stat Sheet: Broken stranglehold on 'Sunshine Double'". Baseline. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
- ^ Braden, Jonathon (March 21, 2017). "Roger Federer Will Go For His Third Sunshine Double At The Miami Open | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
- ^ Rusedski, Greg (April 3, 2012). "Miami courts too slow". Reuters. Archived from the original on April 5, 2012.
- ^ Bembry, Jerry (March 20, 2019). "Picassos, DJs, and a new stadium: Inside the new Miami Open". ESPN.com. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
- ^ "See First Glimpses of the Miami Open at Hard Rock Stadium". Archived from the original on February 25, 2021. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
- ^ Brenner, Steve (March 30, 2018). "Why is the Miami Open moving to a 65,000-capacity NFL stadium?". The Guardian. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
- ^ "Here is a sneak peak[sic] at how Hard Rock Stadium will look for the Miami Open in March". Miami Herald. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
- ^ Shmerler, Cindy (March 18, 2019). "Relocated From a Park to a Football Stadium, the Miami Open Emphasizes Luxury". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
- ^ Kaufman, Michelle (March 21, 2021). "Everything you need to know as modified Miami Open tennis tournament starts Monday". Miami Herald. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
- ^ "IMG Unveils "Miami Open presented by Itaú" | Miami Open". Archived from the original on September 11, 2014. Retrieved March 30, 2014.
- ^ "Kidney Stones for Coria". June 6, 2004. Retrieved February 12, 2023.
- ^ a b c d "ATP Suspends Tour For Six Weeks Due To Public Health & Safety Issues Over COVID-19". ATP Tour. March 12, 2020.
- ^ a b c d "What were the Miami tennis results? | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour. March 28, 2026. Archived from the original on March 28, 2026. Retrieved March 28, 2026.
- ^ "Sunshine Double: what it is and which players have won Indian Wells and Miami". Olympics.com (in Portuguese). International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on April 1, 2026. Retrieved April 1, 2026.
- ^ "The Sunshine Double explained – Indian Wells and Miami". tenngrand.com. March 19, 2026. Archived from the original on April 1, 2026. Retrieved April 1, 2026.
- ^ a b Ryan, Hannah (March 30, 2026). "What is a 'Sunshine Double'? Explaining Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka's rare feat". ESPN.com. Archived from the original on March 31, 2026. Retrieved March 31, 2026.
- ^ "Marcelo Arevalo & Mate Pavic win Miami, complete 'Sunshine Double' - Cash/Glasspool capture first ATP Masters 1000 title in Miami | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour. March 29, 2025. Archived from the original on March 29, 2026. Retrieved March 29, 2026.
- ^ "John Isner completes Sunshine Double, wins Miami doubles title with Hubert Hurkacz". www.usta.com. April 2, 2022. Archived from the original on April 10, 2023. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
- ^ a b Poser, Noah (March 29, 2026). "Siniakova and Townsend complete quest for Sunshine Double with Miami title". Women's Tennis Association. Archived from the original on March 31, 2026. Retrieved March 31, 2026.
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