
The Miami Master’s A Alpher Penate Celester Gall, which starts on Tuesday, will be an appropriate opportunity to compensate for some of the stars of the game after the varying disappointments they were exposed to in the Indian Wales course, and it is related to the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, the German Alexander Zverev and the Serbian Novak Djokovic in men, and the Polish Iga Chefiontek for women.
Senner absent
Italian champions Yannik Senner will be absent last season and ranked first in the world for the tournament because he spends the penalty of suspension for a period of three months due to doping, after the controversy that was raised by his proof of the prohibited Clostol in March 2024 and connects him to an agreement with the World Agency for Doping (WADA) for his suspension.
The last six versions in the men’s category resulted in six different winners, including the Russian Daniel Medvedev (2023), Alcaras (2022) and the Polish Hubert Horsat (2021).
On the other hand, American Daniel Collins won the title at the height of her brilliance, but she faces a difficult start for this year. Collins, 31, who fell to 15th in the world, lost in the second round of the Australian Open Championship the first Grand Slam, then in the third round in Indian Wales.
Djoko is looking for his level
Djokovic performed a remarkable performance in the Australian Open, the first major slam at the beginning of this year, by beating Alcaras in the quarter -finals before he withdrew in the semi -finals due to injury, but the Serbian suffers from an injury in his thigh that affected his level to come out in the first round in the Doha and Indian Wales.
The Serbian, who holds 24 great titles, holds the record number of titles in Miami (six), equally with the American André Agasi. But the fifth seed in the world has not raised the cup in Florida since 2016.
“When you are stable for several years, you have high expectations. Things have changed a little in recent years, I have had difficulty playing at the level I expected. From time to time I participate in a very good tournament, but most of the time it is a battle. It is not easy for me to manage these things.”
On the other hand, Zverev, ranked second in the world, seeks to put an end to a bad series that saw his loss in California, after a failed tour of South America.
Alcaraz and Cosvonicte to reach the final
Alcaraz and Cheventek failed to defend their title in Indian Wales, but they reached at least the semi -finals.
“I will try to learn from this loss,” Alcaraz said after losing to British Jack Dryper in the final with three groups.
“I want to reach Miami and I have the desire to train, and the desire to continue to develop and improve. It is a championship that I also love to play in, and I think I have played a well -racked ball there.”
Draiber and Andreva to continue momentum
The Russian teenager Mira Andreva, 17, became the youngest winner of one of the Master Cersions of a thousand points in Dubai last month. She followed her brilliance in the Indian Wales tournament and made the resounding surprise by beating the Belarusian Arena Sabalinka, ranked first in the world in the final.
Thanks to this coronation, Andreva rose to sixth place in the world in the classification, and she is playing her first participation in the Miami course with high confidence.
In turn, the British Jack Dryper surprised everyone by scoring the first thousand points of Master’s points in Indian Wales, easily surpassing the Danish Holger Raouna in the final.
At the age of 23, he got the best rating in his career, to occupy the seventh position in the world. After eliminating the second round in Miami in 2024, Dryper has the opportunity to collect many points this week.