THURSDAY SCHEDULE and PREVIEW | 2024 Miami Open: Elena RYBAKINA, Caroline WOZNIACKI and Maria SAKKARI all in action
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Thursday is here at the Miami Open with the seeded players coming into the foray albeit with a fairly weakened line-up with Aryna Sabalenka instead starting her campaign on Friday which means a glaring miss from this side of the draw.
Sabalenka was given an extra day after the passing of her ex-boyfriend, Konstantin Koltsov and will instead begin on Friday. Of course the first round is only being completed too for the men with the ATP edition starting a day later. Our preview takes you through some of the top ties and talking points as action continues in Florida.
Rybakina, Sakkari and Wozniacki among leading lights, Nishikori set for latest comeback
The main star in action on Thursday is Elena Rybakina with the Kazakh set to open her campaign against a qualifier in Clara Tauson. It will be interesting to see which Rybakina turns up with illness seeing her withdraw from Indian Wells and has been a main factor behind stop start success in recent months. She again defends another barrel of points here after reaching the final last year losing to a resurgent Petra Kvitova. But will have designs on the title this time.
As will Maria Sakkari after a superb run at Indian Wells reaching the final albeit with the same fate as two years ago despite a new mindset seemingly there under new coach David Witt. She faces rising Chinese ace, Yue Yuan. Also on Stadium includes Felix Auger-Aliassime, Gael Monfils and the returning Madison Keys.
Two returnees to their respective tours headline elsewhere with Caroline Wozniacki set to face Anhelina Kalinina and Kei Nishikori will make another return after a long-time out and will face Sebastian Ofner. There is also the matter of Peyton Stearns v Victoria Azarenka which has an interesting caveat. The former invited former LMFAO singer, Redfoo who is a well-known tennis fan to her box in Miami after liking his energy at Indian Wells, who was next up but his ex-girlfriend in Azarenka.
SCHEDULE Miami Open
Stadium -
Felix Auger-Aliassime v Adam Walton
Maria Sakkari v Yuan Yue
Diana Shnaider v Madison Keys
Not before 7:00pm: Dusan Lajovic v Gael Monfils
Not before 8:30pm: Clara Tauson v Elena Rybakina
Grandstand -
Diane Parry v Beatriz Haddad Maia
Sebastian Ofner v Kei Nishikori
Lorenzo Sonego v Dan Evans
Emilio Nava v Roberto Bautista Agut
Not before 7:00pm; Peyton Stearns v Victoria Azarenka
Butch Buchholz
Elise Mertens v Taylor Townsend
Anhelina Kalinina v Caroline Wozniacki
Aleksandar Kovecavic v Fabian Marozsan
Martin Landaluce v Jaume Munar
Roman Safiullin v Diego Schwartzman
Court 1
Laslo Djere v Coleman Wong
Alejandro Tabilo v Brandon Nakashima
Laura Siegemund v Jelena Ostapenko
Qinwen Zheng v Katerina Siniakova
Veronika Kudermetova v Xinyu Wang
Court 7
Daniel Altmaier v Harold Mayot
Daria Saville v Dayana Yastremska
Alexei Popyrin v Facundo Diaz Acosta
Court 5
Emil Ruusuvuori v Yannick Hanfmann
Daniel Elahi Galan v Alexander Shevchenko
Court 2
Katie Boulter v Brenda Fruhvirtova
Anna Kalinskaya v Xiyu Wang
Liudmila Samsonova v Yulia Putintseva
Court 3
Lesia Tsurenko v Greet Minnen
Alexandre Muller v Soonwoo Kwon
Aleksandar Vukic v Roberto Carballes Baena
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