Miami Open: Katie Boulter, Dan Evans, Elena Rybakina and Caroline Wozniacki in motion on Thursday | Tennis Information

This is all the things it’s essential know in regards to the Miami Open, together with the draw, who’s taking part in and the schedule, with the match stay on Sky Sports activities…

British No 1 Katie Boulter – who gained the San Diego Open earlier this month – faces 16-year-old Brenda Fruhvirtova within the second spherical on Courtroom 2 on Thursday (play to begin at 3pm GMT).

Then Dan Evans takes on Lorenzo Sonego of Italy on Grandstand from round 7pm.

Andy Murray and Jack Draper had been British winners on Wednesday with Murray defeating a wilting Matteo Berrettini in a dramatic encounter, whereas Draper dispatched Japanese participant Taro Daniel.

Murray returns to motion on Friday when he takes on Tomas Martin Etcheverry with Draper going through twenty second seed Nicolas Jarry.

Contemporary from her Indian Wells triumph, world No 1 Iga Swiatek is the defending champion on the ladies’s facet and Daniil Medvedev gained final yr’s occasion on the boys’s facet.

Who’s taking part in?

Medvedev and Swiatek will headline the sphere, however one participant who won’t 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 this planet.”

The 24-time Grand Slam champion suffered a shock third-round loss to 123rd-ranked Italian Luka Nardi at Indian Wells.

Petra Kvitova, the ladies’s champion in 2023, won’t play after not too long ago asserting that she is because of give beginning later this yr.

Which British gamers will likely be in motion?

Two-time champion Murray, Norrie, Draper and Evans lead the British males within the area, backed up by Boulter, however Harriet Dart and Heather Watson had been each eradicated in qualifying.

Jodie Burrage and Liam Broady have been dominated out of the match due to damage, whereas Emma Raducanu pulled out on the eve of the match as a consequence of a decrease again drawback.

What is the schedule?

• Tuesday, March 19 – Ladies’s singles first spherical
• Wednesday, March 20 – Males’s and girls’s singles first spherical
• Thursday, March 21 – Ladies’s singles second spherical, males’s singles first spherical
• Friday, March 22 – Males’s and girls’s singles second spherical
• Saturday, March 23 – Ladies’s singles third spherical, males’s singles second spherical
• Sunday, March 24 – Males’s and girls’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 girls’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?

After 32 years at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, the match made its debut at Onerous Rock Stadium – house of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins – in 2019.

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