It’s March and Miami’s tennis scene is heating up for the ATP World Tour on the 2024 Miami Open at Laborious Rock Stadium this week.
The ATP revealed the matchups for this yr’s match and has a complete lot of acquainted faces returning like Good Britain’s Andy Murray and Japan’s Kei Nishikori.
Proper right here is all it is important to know:
Which ATP players will operate?
Sadly, World No1. Novak Djokovic isn’t going to be having fun with inside the Miami Open this yr, deciding on to focus on balancing his “private {{and professional}} schedule,” which suggests World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz takes the very best seed and shifts the entire others up one spot inside the match’s seeding.
Daniil Medvedev, last yr’s winner, will be hoping for a repeat and must win this event twice for the first time in his career. He’ll most definitely face Max Purcell or Marton Fucsovics inside the second spherical after receiving a bye for the first.
Two-time Wimbledon winner Andy Murray is able to make an look on the Miami Open as he takes on Matteo Berrettini in spherical 1, whereas Medvedev and Jannik Sinner may face a rematch of their Australian Open final within the occasion that they every make it to the semi-finals.
Speaking of Sinner, who moreover confronted Medvedev in last yr’s Miami Open, the World No. 3 has a bye in spherical 1 nevertheless may face Pedro Cachin or a qualifier inside the 2nd spherical.
Hubert Hurkacz, will be hoping to get higher from his loss to Gael Monfils at Indian Wells, and can face Daniel Elahi Galan or Alexander Schevchenko inside the second spherical.
2022 Miami Open finalist Casper Ruud will even be taking part inside the match and can even face Medvedev inside the quarter-finals.
Whereas former World No. 4 Kei Nishikori earned a wild card and might face Sebastian Ofner after 7 months of not having fun with because of various accidents.
Alexander Zverev, a finalist in 2018, will be having fun with the winner between Felix Auger-Aliassime or a qualifier inside the second spherical.
Right here is the very best 10 seeded players and who they may face inside the second spherical:
- Carlos Alcaraz (1) vs Aleksandar Vukic or Roberto Carballes Baena
- Jannik Sinner (2) vs Pedro Cachin or a qualifier
- Daniil Medvedev (3) vs Max Purcell or Marton Fucsovics
- Alexander Zverev (4) vs Felix Auger-Aliassime or a qualifier
- Andrey Rublev (5) vs Tomas Machac or Darwin Blanch
- Holger Rune (6) vs Fabian Marozsan or a qualifier
- Casper Ruud (7) vs Pavel Kotov or Luca Van Assche
- Hubert Hurkacz (8) vs Daniel Elahi Galan or Alexander Schevchenko
- Alex de Minaur (9) vs Alexandre Muller or Soonwoo Kwon
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (10) vs Luciano Darderi or Denis Shapovalov
For your entire brackets, click on on proper right here.
Tennis icons James Blake and Venus Williams joined NBC6’s Giselle Espinales and revealed the entire match ups for this yr’s match.
When and the place is the Miami Open?
The match will occur, as a result of it has been since 2019, at Laborious Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens from March 17 to 31, 2024.
The Miami Open was held on the Tennis Coronary heart at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, from 1987 to 2018.
What’s the 2024 match schedule?
The Miami Open begins play with Qualifying rounds from March 17 by the use of March 19. There isn’t any such factor as a Stadium Court docket docket entry all through qualifying intervals.
The first spherical begins Wednesday, March 20, with males’s and ladies’s matches kicking off at 11 a.m. The evening session begins at 7 p.m.
The match follows the similar schedule format until the finals on March 30 and 31.
On Saturday, March 30, the women’s main draw singles final and males’s doubles final will begin at 12:30 p.m.
On Sunday, March 31, the lads’s main draw singles and ladies’s doubles finals will occur at 12:30 p.m.
Further information proper right here: https://www.miamiopen.com/match/schedule/
What else is there to do on the Miami Open?
The match has a listing of assorted events and actions prepared for the two upcoming weeks.
The first train of their schedule is “Family Day,” which begins at 12 p.m. on Saturday, March 17 and might have a magician, caricature artist, and face painters throughout the stadium.
Inside the Piper-Heidsieck Sky View one can seize a glass of champagne whereas experiencing the Miami pen from “new heights.”
Wheelchair tennis will make its debut on the Miami Open and is open to all ticket holders. Japan’s Shingo Kunieda, four-time Paralympic gold medalist and winner of 28 predominant singles titles, can be the match director, with Grand Slam champions, Good Britain’s Gordon Reid and Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez, confirmed inside the topic.
The Miami-based band HyRyZe returns to the Miami Open and might present a stay efficiency on March 30th following the Women’s finals.
Strive further actions and events proper right here: https://www.miamiopen.com/actions/