SATURDAY SCHEDULE and PREVIEW | 2024 Miami Open: Staggering 45 matches slated after wash out Friday
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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.
45 singles matches in one day with many top players on outside courts
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.
Schedule Day 5 Miami Open
Stadium
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
Grandstand
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
Butch Buchholz
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
Court 1
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
Court 7
(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
Court 5
(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
Court 2
(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
Court 3
(12) Jasmine Paolini v Katie Volynets
(30) Anastasia Potapova v Danielle Collins
Maria Timofeeva v (26) Linda Noskova
Court 6
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
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