Miami’s match schedule on Friday: a madness of stars and Badosa-Sabalenka

He Miami Open It will take on another dimension this Friday as some of the best players in the men’s team will enter the competition, in the first of two days of the second round. The tennis players are a day ahead, closing out that second round, which suggests there is a shower of stars in the order of play, mind boggling given the quantity and quality of stars on the program.

Includes a special match. This is because the Spanish Paula Badosa and the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka They are friends, but events bring more attention.

In Miami, on Tuesday, Sabalenka’s until recently romantic partner, the former ice hockey player, was found dead. Konstantin Koltsov, 42 years old. The local police handled the suicide thesis. The tennis player decided to continue with the draw of the tournament, whose organization delayed his debut by one day. It remains to be seen what final decision the athlete will make when the time comes.

It will go to the second stadium, due to its size and relevance, the Grandstand, starting at 4:00 pm Spanish peninsular time, at eleven in the morning in Miami.

Hard Rock Stadium will be a continuous catwalk of stars, day and night. In the daytime session, the American Coco Gauff and the Italian Jannik Sinnerfinalist in the last edition and suffered their first defeat this season in the Indian Wells semifinals against Carlos Alcaraz.

The Murcian will be the big absentee on Friday, but the Indian Wells champion will benefit from the local night game on Saturday, midnight of the Spaniard. The upper part of this painting is the last to start.

On the downside, in addition to Jannik Sinner play russian Daniel Medvedev, who defends the crown. Not before 01:30 in the Spanish morning on Saturday, after the world number 1 and women’s favorite, the Polish Iga Swiatek.

Facing the guilty Italian compatriot Andrea Vavassori, Carlos Alcaraz waits to see what happens in the crash. Roberto Carballés-Aleksandar Vukic to know the enemy.

The event will be televised on Movistar Plus+, in the case of the men’s Masters 1000 ATP. The women’s WTA matches TDP and DAZN. On the Mundo Deportivo website you can follow it with live matches and continuous information on what will happen until Sunday, March 31, the closing date.

Hard Rock Stadium

(17:00 Central European Time)

Coco Gauff (USA/3)-Nadia Podoroska (ARG/Q)
​Andrea Vavassori (ITA/Q)-Jannik Sinner (ITA/2)
​Thiago Seyboth Wild (BRA/Q)-Taylor Fritz (USA/12)
(00:00 hours from Friday to Saturday)
​Iga Swiatek (POL/1)-Camila Giorgi (ITA)
(not before 01:30 hours)
​Marton Fucsovics (HUN)-Daniil Medvedev (RUS/3)

2

Grandstand

4:00 p.m

Paula Badosa (ESP)-Aryna Sabalenka (BLR/2)
​Denis Shapovalov (CAN)-Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE/10)
(not before 7:00 pm)
Lin Zhu (CHN)-Jessica Pegula (USA/5)
​Naomi Osaka (JPN)-Elina Svitolina
(00:00 hours)
​Christopher O’Connell (AUS)-Frances Tiafoe (USA/21)

3

Butch Buchholz Track

4:00 p.m

Andrey Rublev (RUS/5)-Tomas Macchac (CHE)
​Andy Murray (GBR)-Tomás Martín Etcheverry (ARG/29)
​Casper Ruud (NOR/7)-Luca Van Assche (FRA)
​Sloane Stephens (USA)-Sorana Cirstea (RUM/19)
​Elina Avanesyan (RUS)-Ons Jabeur (TUN/6)

4

Track 5

Ugo Humbert (FRA)-Botic Van de Zandschulp (NED)
​Dominik Koepfer (ALE)-Sebastián Báez (ARG/18)
​Alexander Bublik (KAZ/17)-Matteo Arnaldi (ITA)
Juncheng Shang /CHN)-Alejandro Davidovich (ESP/27)​