That hold from 0-40 was a fitting way for Sinner to cap his immaculate March. He won 12 straight matches and 24 straight sets, to become the first man since Roger Federer in 2017 to win Indian Wells and Miami back to back. Most impressive—uncanny, really—was his ability to be flawless when he had to be.
Against Daniil Medevev in the Indian Wells final, Sinner lost the first four points of the second-set tiebreaker, and appeared to cramp. Needing the match to be over immediately, he stopped missing, and reeled off seven straight points for the title. Against Alex Michelsen in Miami, Sinner went down a break in the second set, and a mini-break in the tiebreaker; again, both times, he cut out all errors. Finally, against Lehecka, when he needed his serve to bail him out, it was there.
