Badosa already has a rival and Alcaraz has a date for his Miami Open debut

Miami Open 2023 is underway. This Tuesday the tournament kicked off with the first round of women’s team matches.

In one of them, the German Laura Siegemund, world number 114, defeated Egyptian Mayar Sherif 6-3, 6-4number 52, and will be Paula Badosa’s rival in the second round this Thursday.

Siegemund won two of the three precedents against Badosain Sharm El Sheikh 2014 and at Roland Garros in 2020. The Spaniards triumphed in Karlsruhe 2019.

Badosa has a tough draw ahead, as if she beats Siegemund she could go through to the third round with Kazakh Elena Rybakinaif she beats the Russian Anna Kaliniskaya.

Rybakina, number seven in the WTA ranking, is coming off a win at the Indian Wells tournament after eliminating Polish Iga Swiatek and Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka.

The first round was marked by a fierce battle of three hours and 35 minutes between the Italian Camila Giorgi and the Estonian Kaya Kanepi.

Giorgi won 7-6(4), 6-7(4) and 7-6(4) and will face Belarusian Viktoria Azarenka in the second round.

The start of the men’s draw is set for this Wednesday, with Albert Ramos the only Spaniard competing.. The man from Mataró will face off (16 Spanish peninsular time) with the Swiss Marc-Andrea Huesler, before the Argentine Facundo Bagnis and the Brazilian Felipe Meligeni take to the track.

Carlos Alcaraz’s first opponent will appear in that rivalry, a fight we already know will take place on Friday the 24th. at a time yet to be confirmed.

The draw for the Masters 1000 ATP in Miami has revealed the new world number 1 Carlos Alcaraz sees faces, should he get past his debut on Friday, with Scotsman Andy Murray or the American ‘gunboat’ Maxime Cressy in the third round.

Danger in the round of 16 due to the great state of form of the American Tommy Paulalthough the student of Juan Carlos Ferrero will want him because there is a pending account since his defeat in Montreal 2022. Although this place can also be occupied by Alejandro Davidovich from Malaga.

In the quarterfinals he will meet a direct generational rival, the Danish Holger Rune, with whom he shared the tables in the basic categories, as well as occasional double matches. The Scandinavian first had to overcome opponents like American Taylor Fritz.

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For the semifinals, the Norwegian Casper Ruud, whom Alcaraz will defeat in the 2022 final. First, the Nordic must eliminate Russian Andrey Rublev. And they also oppose the ascendant Alexander Zverev and the consolidated Jannik Sinner.

On the other side of the painting, closing, the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, second seeded by ranking but first in the list of candidates as he is carrying a shoulder injury and has already shown deficiencies in Indian Wells.

Russian Daniil Medvedev longs for his natural placevictim of Alcaraz on Sunday, or the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, also surpassed by the Murcian last week.

Hypothetical round of 16 in Miami

upper part of the frame
TheCarlos Alcaraz (Span/1)-Tommy Paul (USA/16)
​Taylor Fritz (USA/9)-Holger Rune (Din/7)
​Casper Ruud (North/3)-Alexander Zverev (Ale/16)
​Jannik Sinner (Ita/10)-Andrey Rublev (Russ/6)

Thelower part of the frame
​Hubert Hurkacz (Pol/8)-Cameron Norrie (GBR/11)
​Alex de Minaur (Aus/15)-Daniil Medvedev (Rus/4)
​Felix Auger-Aliassime (Can/5)-Frances Tiafoe (USA/12)
​Karen Khachanov (Rus/14)-Stefanos Tsitsipas (Gre/2)