Roddick and Clijsters Win Miami’s Singles Finals

Andy Roddick has won the Sony Ericsson Open, defeating Tomáš Berdych in the men’s final on April 4. A day earlier, Kim Clijsters took the women’s championship with a 6–2, 6–1 victory over Venus Williams, completing a final weekend featuring established names on both sides of the tournament.

Clijsters’s score made her result particularly emphatic. A final between accomplished players does not always produce a long contest, and the margins show how decisively she finished this one. Roddick’s victory supplied an American champion for the home audience at Crandon Park.

The tournament’s dual format allows those stories to be experienced together without making them the same. The women’s final resolves one draw, and the men’s another, across successive days in the same setting. Miami now has its 2010 champions, with both results giving local spectators a clear conclusion to the fortnight and the players another significant title to carry into the season.