Hubert Hurkacz Wins the Miami Open, Poland's First Masters 1000 Title

Vegan tennis player Hubert Hurkacz has won the Miami Open, beating Jannik Sinner 7-6 (7-4), 6-4 in today's final (Sunday, April 4). It's the biggest title of his career and makes the 24-year-old the first Polish man to win a Masters 1000 event.

Seeded 26th, Hurkacz took the hard way to the trophy. He beat second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in the quarter-finals, then fourth seed Andrey Rublev to reach his first Masters final. Against the 19-year-old Sinner he won a tight first-set tie-break and took the second 6-4, according to the official draw. Miami was played without Federer, Nadal or Djokovic, and Hurkacz was the one who grabbed the chance.

It's his second title of the year after Delray Beach in January, and his biggest by a distance.

Hurkacz has followed a vegan diet for several years, and in an ATP feature on his cooking he admitted he wasn't a natural vegetable lover:

When I was a kid, I didn't like salad at all and I didn't like most of the veggies.

Times change. These days the big-serving Pole fuels a game built on serve and power with plants, and two titles in three months suggest the diet isn't slowing him down.

Tennis has been good to plant-based players lately. Last month Novak Djokovic broke Federer's record for weeks at world No. 1, and in 2018 he became the first man to win all nine Masters 1000 titles. Hurkacz now has one of his own.

No meat, no problem.