Aryna Sabalenka dominates Jessica Peguula to navigate in the title of Miami Open | Tennis

Aryna Sabalenka has further consolidated her best player status in the world while closed a fifteen dominant with an imperious performance to win the Miami Open for the first time in her career with a 7-5 victory, 6-2 on the fourth seed Jessica Pegula.

With another formidable victory, Sabalenka has now won 19 WTA titles, of which eight at WTA 1000 level together with its three Grand Slam titles. A reflection of his consistency, Sabalenka is the third WTA n. 1 in the story to be achieved The finals of the Australian OpenIndian Wells and Miami open in the same year.

“I’m speechless,” said the Bielorusso. “The last two finals were really difficult, tight and close to me. Entering this I was so concentrated on myself, I was super focused and I was playing out by point. Now it seems super-specialized. I am only speechless at this moment and super happy with the title, first in Miami.”

In the last year, Sabalenka and Peguula met in three of the five most significant finals of the hard court after their 2024 meetings at the US Open and Cincinnati Open. In both of these, Peguula overwhelmed by Sabalenka with its higher weight of the trigger despite a remarkable combat by the American.

The dominant performances of Sabalenka are running towards the final have further positioned it as the clear favorite. He faced two other best 10 opponents in the sixth Jasmine Paolini seed and the ninth seed Zheng Qinwen, in addition to the reigning champion Danielle Collins, but did not drop a set in his six games.

After Rain had delayed the beginning of the one hour game, the final began with a series of breaks while the initiative blocked sharply between the two players at the beginning. It was Sabalenka who established in the second half of the opening set, first finding his pace on duty and then perfectly chronometr his best return game of the game. At the top 6-5, Sabalenka chose the Peguula service, taking the set by breaking love. “I’m super happy to be there,” he said. “I was fighting, no matter what.”

As happened in most of their recent meetings, Pegula simply does not have the variety of shots, defensive skills or comparable weight of shooting to put this focused and determined version of Sabalenka under prolonged pressure and has not responded since the world n. 1 took control of the second set.

At the same time, Sabalenka, 26 years old, also showed the dimensions added to his game, mixing the trajectory of his shots and using his topspin service to reject Peguula. Once a unidimensional player determined to attack every last ball, Sabalenka has evolved into an intelligent and tenacious superstar that has become so difficult to beat. He marched through the second set to seal another exceptional victory.