WTA 1000 ATP 1000 Miami 3/21 - 4/2 2023

[nelslus]

Yesterday, Chanda AND Annacone picked Vekic to win.

Pfffffffffftttttttttttttttttttttttt!

[nelslus]

Ashkor must be over the moon. Alexandrova is up 7-6(10), 5-2 with Bencic serving to stay in the match.

WELL, as we all now know- Pegula will never reach the career accomplishments and highlights of Alexandrova.

[ti-amie]

[nelslus]

Meanwhile- Rajeev and Joe manage to lose to Paul and Shelton, 3 and 4. Happy for Tommy and especially for Ben. But, my favorites have just been dismal this year, especially by their standards. UGHHHH....

[ti-amie]

Monday, March 27, 2023 Day 8

Stadium Starts At 12:00 Noon

(Q) Cristian Garin VS (2) Stefanos Tsitsipas
Not Before 1:00 PM
(3) Jessica Pegula VS (20) Magda Linette
Followed By
(10) Elena Rybakina VS Elise Mertens
Not Before 7:00 Pm
Alex Molcan VS (4) Daniil Medvedev
Not Before 8:30 PM
TBD VS TBD - WTA

Grandstand Starts At 11:00 Am

Martina Trevisan VS (24) Jelena Ostapenko
Followed By
(5) Felix Auger-Aliassime VS (25) Francisco Cerundolo
Followed By
Lorenzo Sonego VS (12) Frances Tiafoe
Followed By
(8) Hubert Hurkacz VS Adrian Mannarino
Not Before 7:00 PM
Bianca Andreescu VS (18) Ekaterina Alexandrova

Butch Buchholz Starts At 11:00 Am

(14) Karen Khachanov VS Jiri Lehecka
Followed By
(23) Qinwen Zheng VS (27) Anastasia Potapova
Followed By
Sorana Cirstea VS Marketa Vondrousova
Followed By
TBD VS (Q) Varvara Gracheva
Followed By
(Q) Christopher Eubanks VS Gregoire Barrere

Court 1 Starts At 11:00 Am

Maximo Gonzalez/Andres Molteni VS Marcelo Melo/John Peers
Followed By
Quentin Halys VS Mackenzie McDonald
Followed By
Alexander Bublik/Miomir Kecmanovic VS (5) Lloyd Glasspool/Harri Heliovaara
Followed By / After Suitable Rest
(1) Wesley Koolhof/Neal Skupski VS Mackenzie McDonald/Botic van de Zandschulp
Followed By
Juan Sebastian Cabal/Robert Farah VS Santiago Gonzalez/Edouard Roger-Vasselin

Court 7 Starts At 11:00 Am

(ALT) Irina-Camelia Begu/Anhelina Kalinina VS (5) Yifan Xu/Zhaoxuan Yang
Followed By
Leylah Fernandez/Taylor Townsend VS (7) Beatriz Haddad Maia/Giuliana Olmos
Followed By
(8) Nicole Melichar-Martinez/Ellen Perez VS Anna Kalinskaya/Caty McNally

[ti-amie]

[JTContinental]

Not surprised Coco lost.. she really isnt that good , yet.. the one I am suprised at is Vika, she had been playing well.. Berretini is the male version of Pliskova - what is he up to? Is he for real? Medvedev rolling through quietly, as expected. It is quite astonishing to me, how quickly Alcaraz has become #1 and how well he is actually doing - of course, keeping Djokovic out of the country helps, and now the clay court season begins, where I dont expect even Djokovic to beat him. I had thought Alcaraz would take a year or to get to this level of dominance, but he is already there!

She must be at least as good as Alexandrova because they have the same number of titles.

no comment, doesnt deserve a response

OK, well I have one. As a fan, I find your constant diminishment of Gauff and her accomplishments to be extremely offputting, and I'm asking you to reign it in a bit.

[JTContinental]

Now in that spirit, I have to admit that I was totally wrong about Krejcikova's return. I thought her singles ranking rise and French Open title were an aberration, but she seems to be picking up where she left off.

[ponchi101]

Now in that spirit, I have to admit that I was totally wrong about Krejcikova's return. I thought her singles ranking rise and French Open title were an aberration, but she seems to be picking up where she left off.

She played poorly today and still won. That's a good sign.
I say right now, she is in the conversation for the top player. Yes, I know, she is outside the top 10, but she won Dubai, and lost at IW to Aryna. To me, putting her at #4 behind Iga, Aryna and Elena is not farfetched.

[JTContinental]

She'll definitely be at least top 10 soon, especially since she's not defending many points for the rest of the year.

[ti-amie]

[ti-amie]

[Deuce]

Cirstea has kind of come out of nowhere the past few weeks to post some solid wins.
She has shown flashes of strong play in the past - very inconsistently - so we'll see how long this persists.
I don't know what happened with Muchova today (I didn't see the match), but she had been playing some really good tennis of late - the best since her injuries.

I saw only a few bits and pieces of Andreescu - Kenin. It was apparently quite close.
Maybe Kenin is finally headed in a positive direction...

Krejcikova withstood the challenge from Keys by using her head again. I say she's the most cerebral/intelligent player on the tour when it comes to figuring out her opponent's vulnerabilities, and how to capitalize on them to win the match.

Bouzkova vs. Sabalenka was, sadly, quite predictable. Sabalenka has been playing really well so far this year, and Bouzkova has not been.

[ashkor87]

Kenin always looks like she is late for the bus or something.. busy little thing..

[martini4me]

I did not realize how much the women's draw had been open until I did my predictions. The 2,3 and 4 seeds are still in (and no. 1 Swiatek pulled out before the tourney began), but the next two seeds remaining and 10 and 15, and there are five unseeded players remaining.