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Lehecka celebrates during his match                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\">\n<p>Jiri Lehecka has reached his maiden ATP Masters 1000 final with a two-set win over Arthur Fils at the Miami Open and with it, he set a new record and secured a new career-high in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The Czech star\u2019s previous best run at a Masters 1000 tournament was in 2024 when he made it to the semi-final of the Madrid Open, but then had to retire from his match against Felix Auger-Aliassime due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/jiri-lehecka\">Lehecka<\/a> finds himself in the showpiece match in Florida after defeating Fils 6-2, 6-2 in 75 minutes<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course I\u2019m very excited that I\u2019m in a final. It was definitely one of my goals,\u201d the 22nd seed said. \u201cAt the same time, I know that it is just a sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are more important things going on in the world right now, so that\u2019s definitely something I\u2019m trying to remind myself. I\u2019m just trying to do what I do best, and I definitely enjoy being on a court like this. So I\u2019m trying to live in the present and we will see how it goes on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Miami Open News<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/atp-tour\/jannik-sinner-rankings-breakthrough-carlos-alcaraz-world-no-1\">Jannik Sinner achieves rankings milsteone as he closes in on Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s world No 1 spot<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/carlos-alcaraz-may-never-win-miami-open-again-emma-raducanu-ex-coach\">Carlos Alcaraz may never win the Miami Open again for one reason \u2013 Emma Raducanu\u2019s ex-coach<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old \u2013 who has won two ATP 250 titles \u2013 once again completed the match without being broken, becoming the first player since Novak Djokovic in 2018 to reach an ATP 1000 final without dropping serve.<\/p>\n<p>Lehecka has held serve 56 times during his five matches in Miami, although he did drop one set against sixth seed Taylor Fritz in the fourth round, but that was via a tie-breaker.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1995, the great Pete Sampras held serve 49 times at the Canadian Open while in 2018 Roger Federer notched 43 at the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Rankings Boost<\/h2>\n<p>Lehecka started the Miami Open at No 22 in the rankings, but he has moved up eight places to a new career-high of No 14 in the Live Rankings with his performance in the second leg of the Sunshine Double \u2013 two places above his previous high.<\/p>\n<p>He faces the in-form Jannik Sinner in the final with the Italian looking to complete the Sunshine Double following his title run at the Indian Wells Open a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n<p>Victory over the four-time Grand Slam winner will see him jump to No 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels great. It\u2019s definitely something I\u2019ve been working towards the whole year and the whole pre-season,\u201d he said about his brilliant form. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really trusted my game and the work I put in. It didn\u2019t matter when, but I knew it would come and today was a nice example of how I want to play. I executed it well, so I\u2019m very happy with today\u2019s performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Open: Jiri Lehecka +8 in ATP Rankings and as he sets new Masters record with run to final Shahida Jacobs 28 Mar 2026 6:27 AM Jiri Lehecka celebrates during his match Jiri Lehecka has reached his maiden ATP Masters 1000 final with a two-set win over Arthur Fils at the Miami Open and with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-1852160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1852160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1852160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1852160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1852160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}