Two former champions lost on the first day of the Miami Masters.
American stars Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff headline play Thursday in Miami, plus Elena Rybakina.
Iga Swiatek will miss her title defense at the Miami Masters.
Three former champions are in action Wednesday in Miami.
How will Carlos Alcaraz handle his first big title defense?
The WTA Miami Masters is set to begin Tuesday.
The battle of the last two US Open champions went to Carlos Alcaraz.
World No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka, who is from Belarus, said she struggled to understand the "hate" she encountered in the locker room amid strained relations between some players following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Rafael Nadal has fallen out of the top 10 for the first time since April 2005 -- and a lot has changed since then.
Former US Open champions Emma Raducanu and Sloane Stephens were knocked out of the Miami Open on Wednesday, as was three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray.
Carlos Alcaraz's hunt for the 'Sunshine Double' has ironically been put on hold because of rain.
The World No. 1, who must successfully defend his debut ATP Masters 1000 title in Miami this week to remain atop the Pepperstone ATP Rankings, had his Wednesday night quarter-final clash with Taylor Fritz postponed due to rain.
Alcaraz and Fritz will now do battle Thursday, alongside two other quarter-finals already scheduled for tomorrow: Daniil Medvedev vs. Christopher Eubanks and former Miami semi-finalist Francisco Cerundolo vs. Karen Khachanov.
Alcaraz, who triumphed at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells earlier this month, has a 17-1 record in 2023.
ORDER OF PLAY - THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2023
STADIUM start 1:00 pm
ATP - [Q] C. Eubanks (USA) vs [4] D. Medvedev
Not Before 3:00 PM
WTA - [18] E. Alexandrova vs [15] P. Kvitova (CZE)
Not Before 7:00 pm
ATP - [1] C. Alcaraz (ESP) vs [9] T. Fritz (USA...
Quarter-final action at the Miami Open presented by Itau continues Thursday, when two scheduled matches along with the postponed Carlos Alcaraz-Taylor Fritz clash are on the card.
Daniil Medvedev is one of the most in-form players on Tour, but the fourth seed will have to end the dream run of home favourite Christopher Eubanks in Florida if he wants to reach his fifth consecutive ATP Tour semi-final. Meanwhile Karen Khachanov looks to back up his fourth-round victory against Stefanos Tsitsipas when he faces 2022 semi-finalist Francisco Cerundolo.
ATPTour.com breaks down Thursday’s quarter-final action in southern Florida.
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Santiago Gonzalez and Edouard Roger-Vasselin didn't need to wait long to avenge their semi-final loss to last year's World No. 1 doubles pair Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski in Indian Wells. On Wednesday in Miami the duo rallied from a set down to upset the Miami top seeds 4-6, 7-6(5), 10-5 to reach their second consecutive ATP Masters 1000 semi-final.
The Mexican-French pairing will next meet the winner of Nathaniel Lammons/Jackson Withrow and Lloyd Glasspool/Harri Heliovaara, who were locked at 3/4 on serve in a match tie-break when rain halted play for the evening.
In the only other completed doubles result Wednesday, German Kevin Krawietz and Frenchman Fabrice Martin defeated American singles stars Tommy Paul and Ben Shelton 6-3, 7-5 to advance to the semi-finals. They next will play American Austin Krajicek and Frenchman Nicolas Mahut.
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Not even a two-hour rain delay could stop Jannik Sinner from maintaining a pair of perfect records on Thursday at the Miami Open presented by Itau.
The Italian prevailed 6-3, 6-1in a weather-disrupted quarter-final inside Hard Rock Stadium and he has now won all eight sets he has played at this year’s edition of the hard-court ATP Masters 1000 event in Florida. The 10th seed was victorious in one hour and 15 minutes and improved his ATP Head2Head record against Ruusuvuori to 5-0.
"We both played well today but I won the important points," Sinner said. "It's never easy when you are up and you get interrupted, but I came back and played well."
Most Match Wins In 2023
| Player | W-L |
| Daniil Medvedev | 26-3 |
| Cameron Norrie | 21-5 |
| Jannik Sinner | 20-4 |
| Taylor Fritz* | 20-... |
Does Taylor Fritz eat Hot Pockets before practice when he is home?
“I don’t really want to answer that to be honest!” he said, cracking a laugh.
The American No. 1 answered that question and plenty more in this week’s edition of ATP Uncovered. Grigor Dimitrov, Hubert Hurkacz, John Isner, Tommy Paul and Andrey Rublev all put their reporter’s hat on to come up with a good question for the Top 10 star.
Other questions Fritz’s colleagues posed include:
- Why do people call you 'The Golden Key'?
- What is your hair routine, Taylor? It always looks very good on court.
- What’s the ultimate strategy to beat you?
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Find out Fritz’s answers — and in some cases, non-answers — in the full video.
The 25-year-old will play World No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz in the quarter-finals of the Miami Open presented by Itau Wednesday evening.
Matija Pecotic’s run earlier this year in Delray Beach was an early contender for story of the season. The 33-year-old, who works full-time for a real estate investment company, entered the ATP 250 as an alternate in qualifying, reached the main draw and then eliminated former Top 10 star Jack Sock to reach the second round.
The Croatian’s tennis journey is not over yet. Pecotic has committed to the goal of playing 25 tournaments this year, beginning with the Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship, where he received a qualifying wild card.
“I feel excited and pretty relaxed for now. I don’t know what my match is going to be like. I think it’s really cool that the tournament decided to give me a wild card. I’m not American, I’m not a junior, I’m not signed with some agency,” Pecotic told ATPTour.com. “I emailed the tournament director...
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has confirmed the host nations for the 2023 Davis Cup Finals Group Stage, while the draw for the Finals Group Stage took place in Malaga on Wednesday afternoon.
The Unipol Arena in Bologna, Italy and the Pabellón Municipal Fuente de San Luis in Valencia, Spain return as host venues for the Group Stage this season after hosting successful events in 2022. Italy, Canada, Sweden and Chile will contest Group A in Bologna, while Spain, Serbia, Czech Republic and Korea, Rep. will contest Group C in Valencia.
Great Britain remains a host nation for 2023, with this year’s event taking place at the AO Arena in Manchester – the first time that the city has hosted Davis Cup action since Great Britain played Romania at the Northern Lawn Tennis Club in July 1994. Great Britain, Australia, France and Switzerland will contest Group B in Manchester.
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Two-time Davis Cup champion nation Croatia completes the list of...
The Miami Open presented by Itau quarter-finals begin Wednesday in Florida, where the Pepperstone ATP Rankings stakes are high for Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev and more of the world’s biggest stars.
Alcaraz, who will play Taylor Fritz in the last eight, must win the title to retain World No. 1 next Monday. Anything less and Novak Djokovic will return to top spot.
The Spaniard returned to World No. 1 after winning the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells for the first time. The 19-year-old, who is the defending champion in Miami, is now three victories from completing the ‘Sunshine Double’.
Former World No. 1 Daniil Medvedev also has an opportunity to climb by the end of the week. Currently No. 5 in the Pepperstone ATP Live Rankings, he can pass Casper Ruud and move to World No. 4 if he lifts the trophy.
As recently as last month, Medvedev was World No. 12. But the 27-year-old has won 21 of his past 22 matches, a stretch during which he claimed crowns in...
Editor's Note: This article was translated from ATPTour.com/es.
Fans of both tennis and motor racing are in their element this week in the Hard Rock Stadium.
When entering the venue for the Miami Open presented by Itau, spectators have to pass through a few sectors of the street circuit where the second Miami Grand Prix will take place on 7 May. This partly explains why Carlos Alcaraz has Formula 1 on his mind. However, the main reason is Spanish driver Fernando Alonso.
“33 --> Soon,” wrote Carlitos on the TV camera after his win over Tommy Paul on Tuesday in the last sixteen of the second Masters 1000 of the year. He explained the meaning of the message in his post-match press conference.
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“I’m spurring ‘Fer’ on to see if he can get his 33rd win in Australia,” he said with a smile. “To me it’s crazy what he’s doing at his age. He’s basically in the fight for the Formula 1 World...
The in-form Daniil Medvedev produced a superb serving performance in the early hours of Wednesday morning to see off Quentin Halys and reach the quarter-finals of the 2023 Miami Open presented by Itau.
In a match delayed until after midnight due to rain in South Florida, the fourth seed won 82 per cent (32/39) of points behind his first serve and did not face a break point in his 70-minute victory against the World No. 79. Now into his third consecutive quarter-final in Miami, the 27-year-old will hope to carry his recent red-hot form into his last-eight clash against home favourite Christopher Eubanks.
“I thought it was going to be cancelled,” said Medvedev after producing a clinical performance against Halys after the long rain delay. “I’m pretty happy that I managed to play not so bad, becauset was not easy. I think that’s why Quentin was also missing a lot, because when you play at midnight… You usually sleep at midnight. So trying to play some tennis then [...
Andy Murray and Cameron Norrie are among 10 British players named in the line-up for the Cinch Championships at Queen's Club this summer.
Two-time champion Andy Murray suffers a straight-set loss to Serbia's Dusan Lajovic in the first round at the Miami Open.
British number one Emma Raducanu is out of the Miami Open after losing to Canada's Bianca Andreescu in an enjoyable battle between two former teenage US Open champions.
Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz is back on court and back as the world number one, setting up the prospect of a tantalising battle with Novak Djokovic in 2023.
Ray Wood's dream was to turn his daughters into "two of the greatest female tennis players" in history. Russell Fuller catches up with him five years later to see how the plan is going.
Bianca Andreescu knew it would not be "butterflies and rainbows every day" after her first big title, but also didn't expect the setbacks that nearly led her to quit tennis.
After a 20-year career Sania Mirza leaves an enduring legacy in sport, especially for India's women.
A host of international athletes criticise IOC president Thomas Bach's claim that Russians and Belarusians competing as neutrals in their sport "works".
Romania's Sorana Cirstea stuns world number two Aryna Sabalenka to earn the biggest win of her career and reach the Miami Open semi-finals.
Great Britain will face Australia, France and Switzerland in the group stage of the Davis Cup Finals in September in Manchester.
World No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka, who is from Belarus, said she struggled to understand the "hate" she encountered in the locker room amid strained relations between some players following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Rafael Nadal has fallen out of the top 10 for the first time since April 2005 -- and a lot has changed since then.
Former US Open champions Emma Raducanu and Sloane Stephens were knocked out of the Miami Open on Wednesday, as was three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray.
No. 1-ranked Iga Swiatek has pulled out of the Miami Open prior to her second-round match due to a rib injury suffered during last week's BNP Paribas Open.
Camila Giorgi has pulled out a three-tiebreaker victory over Kaia Kanepi in the first round of the Miami Open.
Martina Navratilova, 66, who won a total of 59 Grand Slam titles across singles and doubles, returned to the television booth for the Miami Open Tuesday, saying in an interview she's cancer-free nearly four months after announcing she had been diagnosed.
Carlos Alcaraz closed out Daniil Medvedev in 70 minutes on Sunday to win the BNP Paribas Open title and regain the world No. 1 ranking.
Elena Rybakina defeated Aryna Sabalenka 7-6 (11), 6-4 on Sunday to win the BNP Paribas Open and hand the world's second-ranked player just her second loss this year.
Daniil Medvedev will meet top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz in the BNP Paribas Open final on Sunday after each advanced in straight sets.
Novak Djokovic will miss next week's Miami Open after being denied an exemption that would have allowed him to enter the U.S. despite not being vaccinated against COVID-19, tournament director James Blake said.
Leon Smith’s side defeated Colombia away to secure a place in the finals
Great Britain will take on three other teams in September at the AO Arena, with the top two progressing to the ‘Final 8’.
The Canadian fell to the court during the second set of her fourth-round clash with Ekaterina Alexandrova.
The Australian Open champion will next face another meeting with Barbora Krejcikova.
The 19-year-old Spaniard returned to the world number one spot last week.
Barrere cruised home in the second set to book a third-round meeting with Christopher Eubanks
Clijsters made her grand slam comeback at the US Open and went on to lift the trophy.
Marta Kostyuk refused to shake the hand of Anastasia Potapova after defeat at the Miami Open. The Russian recently sparked outrage for wearing a Spartak Moscow shirt at Indian Wells
Two former champions lost on the first day of the Miami Masters.
American stars Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff headline play Thursday in Miami, plus Elena Rybakina.
Iga Swiatek will miss her title defense at the Miami Masters.
Three former champions are in action Wednesday in Miami.
How will Carlos Alcaraz handle his first big title defense?
The WTA Miami Masters is set to begin Tuesday.
The battle of the last two US Open champions went to Carlos Alcaraz.
Rain forced the cancellation of the night session.
One semifinal is set in Miami.
Carlos Alcaraz and Taylor Fritz will meet for a first time on Wednesday.
