Driving rain Miami forced to postpone this wednesday to thursday The night show that led to the Spaniard’s quarter-final duel Carlos Alcaraz vs Taylor Fritz and Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova’s match against Czech Petra Kvitova.
Rain remains the lead in Miami, and after delaying Tuesday’s schedule for more than three hours, only two of the four games scheduled for this Wednesday were allowed to be played. Romania’s Sorana Cirstea defeated Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka to return to the semi-finals in the WTA 1,000 for the first time since 2010, and Italian Jannik Sinner authoritatively defeated Finn Emil Ruusuvori.
Sinner 6-3 and 6-2 won the match, which was interrupted for about two hours due to the rain. However, the Italian managed to complete his match before the weather conditions forced him to leave the competition. Sinner has advanced to the semifinals in Miami after doing so at Indian Wells two weeks ago and will have one more day of rest compared to Alcaraz or Fritz, who should be playing on Thursday. The Italian plays tennis at the highest level and is already confident that he will be in the top ten in the world rankings next Monday.
Alcaraz would compete in the final game on Center Court, which would be his first encounter with Taylor Fritz. The world’s number one Murcian advanced to the quarterfinals by eliminating Argentine Facundo Bagnis, Serbian Dusan Lajovic and Tommy Paul in a duel where the American player avenged his defeat in Montreal last summer. He will play as Argentina’s Francisco Cerúndolo, who will face Russia’s Daniil Medvedev and Karen Khachanov this Thursday against Christopher Eubanks.
In the women’s draw, Americans Elena Rybakina and Jessica Pegula are already in the semi-finals, while Kvitova and Alexandrova will play this Thursday for the semi-final ticket where Cirstea awaits them.