Miami Open on Sky Sports activities: All it’s good to know as Nice Britain’s Jack Draper targets tennis’ Sunshine Double

The second a part of tennis’ Sunshine Double is stay on Sky Sports activities over the following week or so with Britain’s Jack Draper aiming to go back-to-back in the USA.

Draper received Indian Wells on Sunday, claiming his first ATP Masters title with a 6-2 6-2 victory over Holger Rune after disposing of Carlos Alcaraz within the final 4 in California.

The British No 1 – who has jumped to a career-high seventh on the planet rankings – will now be seeking to triumph in Miami and turn into the primary man since Roger Federer in 2017 to win each Indian Wells and the next occasion in Florida in the identical season.

Draper will start his marketing campaign in spherical two in opposition to both Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut or Czech participant Jakub Mensik, with the whole event stay on Sky Sports activities from Tuesday March 18 to Sunday March 30.

Match schedule

Tuesday March 18: Ladies’s first spherical
Wednesday March 19: Males’s and girls’s first spherical
Thursday March 20: Males’s first spherical/girls’s second spherical
Friday March 21: Males’s and girls’s second spherical
Saturday March 22: Males’s second spherical/girls’s third spherical
Sunday March 23: Males’s and girls’s third spherical
Monday March 24: Males’s third spherical/girls’s fourth spherical
Tuesday March 25: Ladies’s quarter-finals/males’s fourth spherical
Wednesday March 26: Males’s and girls’s quarter-finals
Thursday March 27: Ladies’s semi-finals/males’s quarter-finals
Friday March 28: Males’s semi-finals
Saturday March 29: Ladies’s closing
Sunday March 30: Males’s closing

Which different Brits are concerned?

Cameron Norrie joins Draper within the males’s draw and can face Bu Yunchaokete of China within the first spherical. If Norrie comes by way of that encounter, he’ll go on to fulfill tenth seed Alex de Minaur.

Jacob Fearnley and Billy Harris are additionally hoping to achieve the event correct however should come by way of closing qualifying.

Within the girls’s draw, Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter will play within the first spherical, in opposition to Japan’s Sayaka Ishii and USA’s Peyton Stearns respectively.

Raducanu will tackle eighth seed Emma Navarro if she beats Ishii, whereas Boulter may come up in opposition to Iga Swiatek within the final 32 if she sees off Stearns after which Elise Mertens.

Sonay Kartal – who made it to the final 16 at Indian Wells earlier than falling to Aryna Sabalenka – and Harriet Dart had been crushed in closing qualifying.

Which different massive names are in motion?

The ladies’s draw contains world No 1 Sabalenka and defending Miami Open champion Danielle Collins, plus Swiatek, Coco Gauff, reigning Australian Open champion Madison Keys and final week’s Indian Wells winner Mirra Andreeva.

Andreeva upset Sabelenka 2-6 6-4 6-3 within the Indian Wells closing to assert successive titles, each in 1000 occasions after she additionally triumphed in Dubai.

On the boys’s aspect, Novak Djokovic – with coach Andy Murray by his aspect as soon as once more – might be aiming to rally from a second-round exit at Indian Wells.

Djokovic stays on 99 profession ATP titles having not received an occasion since final summer season’s Paris Olympics when he noticed off Alcaraz within the closing.

Alcaraz can also be enjoying in Miami however world No 1 and reigning Miami Open champion Jannik Sinner is absent as he continues to serve a three-month ban so the highest seed is world No 2 Alexander Zverev.

Males’s prime 10 seeds

1. Alexander Zverev
2. Carlos Alcaraz
3. Taylor Fritz
4. Novak Djokovic
5. Casper Ruud
6. Jack Draper
7. Daniil Medvedev
8. Andrey Rublev
9. Stefanos Tsitsipas
10. Alex de Minaur

Ladies’s prime 10 seeds

1. Aryna Sabalenka
2. Iga Świątek
3. Coco Gauff
4. Jessica Pegula
5. Madison Keys
6. Jasmine Paolini
7. Elena Rybakina
8. Emma Navarro
9. Zheng Qinwen
10. Paula Badosa

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