This is all the things you must know concerning the Miami Open, together with the draw, who’s taking part in and the schedule. You’ll be able to watch all of the drama unfold stay on Sky Sports activities.
Reside protection of the Miami Open begins on Tuesday from 3pm UK time – stay on Sky Sports activities Tennis – and can characteristic world No 1 Iga Swiatek on the ladies’s aspect and 2023 champion Daniil Medvedev on the lads’s.
Who’s taking part in?
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Daniil Medvedev is the defending Miami Open males’s champion
Medvedev and Swiatek will headline the sector, however one participant who is not going to be heading to Florida is six-time champion Novak Djokovic.
He has performed simply thrice this yr – representing Serbia within the United Cup, reaching the semi-finals on the Australian Open, and falling in simply the third spherical of Indian Wells.
“At this stage of my profession, I am balancing my non-public {and professional} schedule,” Djokovic posted on X. “I am sorry that I will not expertise among the finest and most passionate followers on the earth.”
The 24-time Grand Slam champion suffered a shock third-round loss to 123rd-ranked Italian Luka Nardi at Indian Wells.
Loads of eyes shall be on Romanian former world No 1 Simona Halep, who will make her first aggressive look since successful an attraction over a doping suspension.
The 2023 girls’s champion Petra Kvitova will not play after saying not too long ago that she’s on account of give start later this yr.
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Darren Cahill says he is all the time believed that Simona Halep would by no means knowingly take a banned substance and that his former participant has been by means of 18 months of torture
Which British gamers shall be in motion?
Andy Murray
Two-time champion Andy Murray, Cameron Norrie and Dan Evans lead the British males within the area, backed up by WTA San Diego champion Katie Boulter and Emma Raducanu, who continues her comeback to the WTA tour.
Heather Watson and Harriet Dart will try to make the principle draw as they undergo the qualifying route, whereas Jodie Burrage and Liam Broady have been dominated out of the event due to damage.
What is the schedule?
Tuesday, March 19 – Ladies’s singles first spherical
Wednesday, March 20 – Males’s and ladies’s singles first spherical
Thursday, March 21 – Ladies’s singles second spherical, males’s singles first spherical
Friday, March 22 – Males’s and ladies’s singles second spherical
Saturday, March 23 – Ladies’s singles third spherical, males’s singles second spherical
Sunday, March 24 – Males’s and ladies’s singles third spherical
Monday, March 25 – Ladies’s singles fourth spherical, males’s singles third spherical
Tuesday, March 26 – Ladies’s singles quarter-finals, males’s singles fourth spherical
Wednesday, March 27 – Males’s and ladies’s singles quarter-finals
Thursday, March 28 – Ladies’s singles semi-finals, males’s singles quarter-finals
Friday, March 29 – Males’s singles semi-finals
Saturday, March 30 – Ladies’s singles ultimate
Sunday, March 31 – Males’s singles ultimate
The place is it being performed?
An aerial view of the Exhausting Rock Stadium in Miami
After 32 years at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, the event made its debut at Exhausting Rock Stadium – residence of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins – in 2019.
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