On the 28th, Beijing time, Sabalenka, the top seed of Belarus and the queen of the world today, issued 6 aces and 4 breaks, and it took only 71 minutes to sweep the Italian 6th seed Paulini 6:2 and 6:2, and bravely entered the women's singles final of the 2025 Miami Tennis Championships with 5 consecutive wins and 1 set, and is also the sixth female player in the past 20 years to advance to the North American "Sunshine Doubles" championship in a single season.
Sabalenka
Miami, along with the previous Indian Wells station, is known as the "Sunshine Doubles" in North America, and it is an outdoor hard court event for both men and women. Aryna Sabalenka, who finished runner-up in the women's singles at Indian Wells, has now advanced to the final of the Miami tournament for the first time, and has won the two WTA 1000-point tournaments in March, following in the footsteps of Kim Clijsters of Belgium in 2005, Sharapova of Russia in 2006, 2012 and 2013, Azarenka of Belarus in 2016, Swiatek of Poland in 2022 and Rybakina of Kazakhstan in 2023.
Currently living in Sabalenka, South Florida, USA, she considers Miami to be at home, and she likes to sleep in her bed during the tournament and even drive home to do her laundry, enjoying the comfort of this familiar environment, and the three-time Grand Slam champion has entered the tournament for the seventh time and finally broke through the quarter-finals for the first time, and has not lost serve so far, reaching her 12th career WTA singles final.