 Daniel Mehvedev vs Yannick Sinner is the final of the Miami Open for the men for 2023 and both players had to fight to get to the final. Yannick Sinner started the tournament off as the number 10 seed and we get a buy in the first round. In the second round he take on Jera, this was no problem for Sinner getting through in straights, 6-4-6-2. In the third round he take on the 21 seed Dmitrov, but again this was no problem for Sinner getting through easily in straight sets, 6-3-6-4. In the fourth round he take on the number 6 seed Rubelev, we had had interesting matches against in the past but Sinner was on fire and destroyed Rubelev 6-2-6-4 to advance to the quarter-final stage. In the quarter-finals Sinner would take on the unseeded Russavari who had a very good tournament to get to this stage. This was no problem for Sinner getting through in straight sets, 6-3-6-1 to advance to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals Sinner would have to take on the number 1 Elkaraaz who was also the defending champion and going for the Sunshine Double. And after a very close first set Sinner would rally back to win 6-7-6-4-6-2 to advance to another Miami Final. Mehvedev started the tournament off as the number 4 seed and we get a buy in the first round. In the second round he take on Payana, this was no problem for Mehvedev winning in straight sets 6-1-6-2. In the third round he was supposed to play Mulchan, unfortunately Mulchan pulled out with injury allowing Mehvedev to get the easy win with a walkover. In the fourth round Mehvedev would take on Hallis who had saved match points against Diminor a couple of rounds ago. But this was no problem for Mehvedev getting through in straight sets 6-4-6-2 to advance to the quarter-finals. In the quarter-finals Mehvedev would take on the qualifier U-Banks, Mehvedev would eventually get through in straights 6-3-7-5 to advance to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals Mehvedev would take on the number 14 seed Hashinov, a close friend and a man that he'd beaten earlier in the year. But after a close first set and losing the second Mehvedev would have to fight in 3-7-6-3-6-6-3 to advance to the final. These guys have played 5 times before with Mehvedev leading the head-dead 5-0 including a meeting a couple of months ago in Rotterdam that went 3 sets. This will be the first time they actually play on an outdoor hard court in their careers. The steel percentage goes to Mehvedev, however it's Sinner who has the baseline battle percentage in his favor when Mehvedev has the conversion in attack in his favor. So it's very very close all around and of course no surprise that both these guys are well and truly above the tour averages for each respective category. So it's probably going to come down to how good Mehvedev serves and how good Sinner can return and what are the baseline battles going to look like between these guys. Because throughout the whole week Mehvedev has struggled at times on the baseline with consistency. And of course we just saw Sinner play an epic match against Alcaraz where he was hitting winners from all over the place. And the shot quality is calculated in real time by analyzing each shot's speed, spin, depth, width and the impact it has on the opponent. This is a new way of analyzing matches brought to you by Tennis Insights. If you want to check out more you can go check them out on Twitter, link down in the description. This is going to be an awesome matchup and I feel like Sinner getting a lot of confidence from that win against Alcaraz. Mehvedev didn't play that great in his semi-final against Hashinov but I can't go past that head-dead 5-0. I have to pick Mehvedev in this one. He's been so good. For the last couple of months this is his 5th final in a row. So I'm going to go with Mehvedev in a 3 setter. Hopefully a tiebreaker in the 3rd. That would be epic to finish the week. But let me know down in the comments below. Who do you think will win Miami?