Iga Swiatek completes 'Sunshine Double'

Iga Swiatek will assume control over the world number one positioning in style as she kept her astounding winning run flawless with a 6-4 6-0 win over Japan’s Naomi Osaka in the Miami Open final on Saturday.

The Polish second seed, who will take over the world number one positioning one week from now, didn’t drop a set in Miami and has now won 17 sequential matches tracing all the way back to her title run at the Qatar Open.

With this win, the 20-year-old Iga Swiatek turns out to be just the fourth women to win the Indian Wells and Miami competitions one after the other, an accomplishment known as the “Sunshine Double” given the competitions’ individual areas in California and Florida.

“These weeks were so intense I didn’t really know if I would able to keep up with the streak that I have,” said Swiatek, who also became the first woman to win the opening three WTA 1000 tournaments in a season,” she said.

“It’s amazing for me that I could show mental toughness because my whole life I thought I could do more and sometimes I was losing and I didn’t even know why. This season I feel like everything clicked so it’s great and I am really happy,” he added.

The two players burned through no time getting into the fieriness of the fight as the coordinate started with a wild seven-deuce opening game during which four-time Grand Slam champion Osaka saved two separate points and terminated four aces to hold serve.

Swiatek is the first women to finish the “Sunshine Double” since Victoria Azarenka in 2016. Kim Clijsters (2005) and Steffi Graf (1994, 1996) are other women to achieve the accomplishment.