SATURDAY SCHEDULE and PREVIEW | 2024 Miami Open: Staggering 45 matches slated after wash out Friday

The Miami Open's day of rain has led to a scheduling nightmare for the tournament with only eight games completed on Friday meaning that there is a staggering 45 matches slated on Saturday in Florida.

The schedule has now been confirmed with our preview looking ahead to the main talking points and matches to follow, but that is if any take place with the weather again looking poor. Often called the Sunshine Double, as others have quipped it is soon turning into the Disaster Double in terms of weather.

While not as bad as Friday, the weather is still likely to make play stop start on Saturday. On Stadium, the day session is supposed to feature Taylor Fritz, Naomi Osaka facing Elina Svitolina and Iga Swiatek taking on Camila Giorgi so essentially the end of the day session from Friday. As well as Jannik Sinner completing his match against Andrea Vavassori to also fit in.

In the evening, Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka are slated to play with likely scope for matches to be moved from Grandstand with Jessica Pegula, Daniil Medvedev, Alexander Zverev and Elena Rybakina all slated to play from the 11am start time on the court.

Onto the outside courts with Andy Murray, Ons Jabeur, Leylah Fernandez and Ben Shelton playing on the third biggest court. Some top ties including Qinwen Zheng v Victoria Azarenka, Anna Kalinskaya v Jelena Ostapenko highlight some of the main outer court action with many top names having to play away from the glare of the cameras in order to get the rounds done. In all there is 26 and 11 ATP and WTA second round matches and eight WTA third round matches slated to take place on Saturday. Only a small section of the ATP draw has been confirmed to have matches on Sunday such is the likelihood of rain delays again and could lead to a knock on effect of later in the tournament with players having to play twice in a day.

It shines a spotlight again on the lack of a roof at these tournaments and how rain as a result can wreak havoc especially in a city that had flood warnings during most of Friday. Whether the 45 matches get close to being finished is anyone's guess, but it will likely be stop start even if they do.

Starting at 11:00 a.m. local time: (12) Taylor Fritz vs (Q) Thaigo Seyboth Wild

Not before 12 pm local time: (2) Jannik Sinner  vs (Q) Andrea Vavassori

Not before 1:00 p.m. local time: (15) Elina Svitolina vs (PR) Naomi Osaka

Followed by: (1) Iga Swiatek vs Camila Giorgi

Not before 7:00 p.m. local time: (1) Carlos Alcaraz vs Roberto Carballes Baena\

Not before 8:30 p.m. local time: (2) Aryna Sabalenka vs (32) Anhelina Kalinina

Starting at 11:00 a.m. local time: (5) Jessica Pegula vs Zhu Lin

Not before 12 noon local time: (10) Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Denis Shapovalov

Followed by: (3) Daniil Medvedev vs Marton Fucsovics

Followed by: (8) Hubert Hurkacz vs Alexander Shevchenko

Followed by: (4) Alexander Zverev vs Felix Auger-Aliassime

Not before 7:00 p.m. local time: (4) Elena Rybakina vs (Q) Taylor Townsend

Starting at 11:00 a.m. local time: (31) Leylah Fernandez vs Emiliana Arango

Not Before 12:00 noon / TBF 3/3: Andy Murray vs (29) Tomas Martin Etcheverry

followed by: (6) Ons Jabeur vs Elina Avanesyan

followed by: (11) Beatriz Haddad-Maia vs (24) Katie Boulter

followed by: (16) Ben Shelton vs (WC) Martin Landaluce

Christopher O'Connell vs (21) Frances Tiafoe

Sloane Stephens v (19) Sorana Cirstea

(7) Casper Ruud v Luca van Assche

Dan Evans v (31) Christopher Eubanks

Gael Monfils v (33) Jordan Thompson

(13) Tommy Paul v Martin Damm Jr.

(10) Daria Kasatkina v Claire Liu

(7) Qinwen Zheng v (27) Victoria Azarenka

Xiyu Wang v (17) Madison Keys

Yulia Putintseva v Greet Minnen

(25) Tallon Griekspoor v Alex Michelsen

(17) Alexander Bublik v Matteo Arnaldi

(28) Sebastian Korda v Roberto Bautista Agut

(23) Lorenzo Musetti v Roman Safiullin

(11) Grigor Dimitrov v Alejandro Tabilo

(22) Nicolas Jarry v Jack Draper

(8) Maria Sakkari v (28) Dayana Yastremska

(22) Anna Kalinskaya v (9) Jelena Ostapenko

Laslo Djere v (15) Karen Khachanov

(12) Jasmine Paolini v Katie Volynets

(30) Anastasia Potapova v Danielle Collins

Maria Timofeeva v (26) Linda Noskova

Dominik Koepfer v (16) Sebastian Baez

Juncheng Shang v (27) Alejandro Davidovich Fokina

(30) Cameron Norrie v Flavio Cobolli

(20) Francisco Cerundolo v Sebastian Ofner

Yannick Hanfmann v (19) Adrian Mannarino