View FedEx ATP Head2Head for the following match-ups & vote for the players you think will win! Nishikori vs Anderson | Nadal vs Sela | Dimitrov vs Pella | Raonic vs Troicki [GROUP POLL]17[/GROUP POLL] DAY 3 PREVIEW: There are two first-round matches in the top half of the draw and 16 second-round matches in the bottom half of the draw on Friday’s schedule at the Miami Open presented by Itau. Leading the way are No. 2 seed and last year’s finalist Kei Nishikori, No. 3 seed Milos Raonic and No. 5 seed/four-time Miami Open finalist Rafael Nadal. In the opening men’s match on Stadium, Nishikori takes on big-serving South African Kevin Anderson. Nishikori has won two of the previous...
[GROUP POLL]16[/GROUP POLL] • DAY 2 PREVIEW: There are 16 first round singles matches in the top half of the Miami Open presented by Itau draw on Thursday’s schedule. Six of the 11 #NextGenATP players in the tournament are in action, leading off with 20-year-old Croat Borna Coric against Spaniard Marcel Granollers in the first men’s match on Stadium. In the next match on, #NextGenATP qualifier Frances Tiafoe plays Konstantin Kravchuk for the second straight week. Tiafoe defeated the Russian 61 64 in the 1R at the Irving, Texas Challenger last week. The 19-year-old Tiafoe was one of five Americans to qualify into the tournament. Kravchuk is looking for his first ATP World Tour match win of the season (0-6)....
[GROUP POLL]15[/GROUP POLL] • SPOTLIGHT ON MIAMI: The 33rd edition of the Miami Open presented by Itau gets underway on Wednesday. The second of nine ATP Masters 1000 tournaments of the season takes place at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park. The 96-player draw features seven of the Top 10 and 16 of the Top 20 players in the Emirates ATP Rankings. Two-time (2005-06) champion Roger Federer, who captured his 90th career title in Indian Wells, is the lone former winner in the field. • DAY 1 PREVIEW: There are 16 singles matches in the bottom half of the draw on Wednesday’s schedule. Four of the 11 #NextGenATP players in the tournament are in action with teenage wild card Michael...
The man with the nickname “Stanimal” faced a new question during Tuesday’s media day at the Miami Open presented by Itau: What animal would he be, given the choice? “Depends on the day,” said Stan Wawrinka, after a pause. “I quite like a black panther.” A panther may befit his status this week in Miami, where he is the top seed for the first time at an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament. Additionally, the World No. 3 is riding the confidence of a runner-up finish to countryman Roger Federer in Sunday’s BNP Paribas Open final. “I’m really happy with the results. I was sad after the loss, but he was playing too good and it was a good final,” said...
To Kei Nishikori, everything is just about perfect at the Miami Open presented by Itau, the season's second ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament, which kicks off on Wednesday. The tournament's location, the Tennis Center at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, is only a four-hour drive from where Nishikori lives and trains year-round, in Bradenton, Florida. The south Florida conditions – quick and fast – suit the aggressive Japanese player. The only thing missing from making the Miami event perhaps Nishikori's absolute perfect tournament has been the lack of a title. The 27 year old is searching for his first Miami crown, which he'll try to land during the next two weeks. “I feel very relaxed here, very open... I...
