Roger Federer should have been exhausted. After winning the ATP Masters 1000 event in Indian Wells, the 18-time Grand Slam champion spent over five hours on court heading into the Miami Open final against Rafael Nadal, who had been on court for less than three hours. Perhaps Federer was lucky to make it to the championship match at all, surviving two final set tiebreakers against Tomas Berdych and Nick Kyrgios, respectively.
But the Swiss left no doubt that he deserved to win the title, beating the fifth-seeded Nadal for the third time this year and fourth time in a row, 6-3, 6-4, to continue his torrid start to 2017.