The Miami Open draw ceremony befell on Monday afternoon, and the proceedings weren’t sort to Carlos Alcaraz and Joao Fonseca. Alcaraz and Fonseca may go head-to-head as early as spherical two, which might be Alcaraz’s first match of the fortnight following a bye. Fonseca merely has to get previous Fabian Marozsan on both Wednesday or Thursday.
Alcaraz’s potential highway by the highest half of the bracket additionally contains Sebastian Korda within the final 32, Karen Khachanov within the fourth spherical, Taylor Fritz within the QFs, and both Lorenzo Musetti, Alex de Minaur, or Alexander Bublik within the SFs. The 2022 Miami Masters 1000 champion is coming off a semifinal efficiency on the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, the place he misplaced to Daniil Medvedev.
Medvedev, who fell to Jannik Sinner 7-6(6), 7-6(4) within the remaining on Sunday in Tennis Paradise, has an excellent attract Miami — the place he beat Sinner within the 2023 remaining. The 29-year-old Russian wouldn’t meet Sinner till the semis and Alcaraz till the ultimate. The underside half of the Miami Open draw can be residence to Alexander Zverev, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Ben Shelton, Andrey Rublev, Learner Tien, and defending champion Jakub Mensik.
Along with Fonseca vs. Marozsan, first-round showdowns price watching are Denis Shapovalov vs. Botic van de Zandschulp, Ethan Quinn vs. Hubert Hurkacz, Grigor Dimitrov vs. Raphael Collington, Marin Cilic vs. Alexei Popyrin, and Gabriel Diallo vs. Yibing Wu.
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