“Let’s try that again” is a common theme of the tennis season. In Doha and Dubai, Madrid and Rome, Canada and Cincinnati, the pros essentially play the same tournaments, on the same surfaces, two weeks in a row. Indian Wells and Miami is the most lucrative, and probably the best known of those back-to-backs—it comes with its own happy-sounding nickname, the Sunshine Double.
It may sound like fun, but it doesn’t come with much rest. The first half of the double ended on Sunday in the California desert; the second half begins on Tuesday in Hard Rock Stadium’s in South Florida. In fact, the tradition is to have the women’s draw done in Miami before the finals are played in Indian Wells.
That tradition continued on Sunday. Here are three storylines to follow on the WTA side in the coming two weeks. The courts get a little faster in Miami, but the field stays the same.
