With eight Argentines and some important absences, the Miami Masters 1000 begins

The Miami Masters 1000, which will be played in parallel between the ATP and the WTA, will begin tomorrow with the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz and the Polish Iga Swiatek as current champions and top favorites to the title and the presence of eight Argentine tennis players in the men’s singles draw. The contest, on cement surface and with prizes for $ 10,156,105, will begin this Wednesday in its new stage from 2019, the Hard Rock Stadium, where Miami Dolphins, one of the main teams of the NFL, is located. The great favorite is Alcaraz, 19 years old and who recovered the number one in the world last Sunday after winning the Masters 1000 of Indian Wells, after winning in the final over the Russian Daniil Medvedev (5th) by 6-3 and 6-2.It is worth mentioning that the contest will not have again the Serbian Novak Djokovic (2nd) or the Spanish Rafael Nadal (13th). In the case of the Serb, his absence, as happened in Indian Wells, is due to the fact that the US government did not allow him to enter the country because he had not been vaccinated against the coronavirus, while “Rafa” recovers from an injury and will only return in April on the European tour on brick dust. Among the ladies, the top seed is Swiatek (1st) and her rivals to beat will be the Kazakh Elena Rybakina (7th), champion on Sunday in India Wells, and the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka (2nd), finalist in the tournament played in the Californian desert. As for the Argentines, in addition to Cerúndolo, Sebastián Báez, Diego Schwartzman, Pedro Cachín, Federico Coria, Tomás Martín Etcheverry, Facundo Bagnis and Guido will play according to the draw Pella.De of the main draw, wl major of the Cerúndolo brothers, Argentine number one from his 31st place in the world ranking, will begin his participation directly in the second round against the winner of the cross between the Spanish Jaume Munar (66th) and a tennis player emerged from the classification. For his part, Báez (33rd), also exempt from the opening round, will play against the winner of the match between the American Marcos Girón (71st) and a tennis player from the “qualy”. The other who will skip the opening round is “Peque” Schwartzman (38th), who will play against the British Kyle Edmund (544th) or the Chinese Yibing Wu (64th). In turn, the Santa Fe Bagnis (100°) will debut against a rival emerged from the classification, but if he passes it will then be the Murcian Alcaraz (1st). The Bahian Pella (581°) will debut against the Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas (88°) and if he passes it he will go in the second round against the Canadian Denis Shapovalov (30°), while the Cordovan Cachín (63°) will face the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics (74°) and if he surpasses him he will then go against the Danish Holger Rune (8°). The platense Tomás Martín Etcheverry (73°) will debut against a rival emerged from the “qualy” and pass it will have to face the Russian Karen Khachanov (16°), while the rosarino Coria (67°) will play against the Czech ascendant Jiri Lehecka (44°).

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