Miami Open Mar 24-Apr 5

Miami, USA

 

CiCi Bellis defeated Indy De Vroome of the Netherlands 6-2, 6-2 for her second career WTA main draw match win on Tuesday at the Miami Open.

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Rafael Nadal expects to compete at the Miami Open this week despite turning his left ankle in practice on Monday.

Nadal has a bye and isn't scheduled to play until a second-round match on Friday. The third-ranked Nadal will play the winner of the match between Nicolas Almagro of Spain and Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine.

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British number one Heather Watson recovered to beat Russia's Evgeniya Rodina 3-6 6-1 7-5 in a gruelling first-round match at the Miami Open.

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Two-time Miami Open champion Victoria Azarenka easily advanced to the second round Wednesday, beating Silvia Soler-Espinosa of Spain 6-1, 6-3.

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Eugenie Bouchard was upset Saturday in her opening match at the Miami Open by qualifier Tatjana Maria 6-0, 7-6 (4).

 

Seven-time champion Serena Williams needed only 41 minutes to beat 15-year-old American CiCi Bellis 6-1, 6-1 on Sunday in the third round of the Miami Open.

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Andy Murray's 499th career victory put him in the fourth round of the Miami Open.

The No. 3-seeded Murray beat Santiago Giraldo 6-3, 6-4 on Sunday, and one more win will give him a milestone achieved by 45 other men in the Open era.

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Four-time champion Novak Djokovic wobbled badly midway through his opening match at the Miami Open but regrouped Saturday night to beat Martin Klizan 6-0, 5-7, 6-1.

In other action, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga made a successful 2015 debut Saturday by beating American Tim Smyczek 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

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A resurgent Venus Williams defeated Caroline Wozniacki 6-3, 7-6 (1) on Monday to reach the Miami Open quarterfinals.

Seeded 16th, Williams is a three-time Key Biscayne champion, but her most recent title came in 2001. She is into the Key Biscayne quarterfinals for the first time since 2012.

Williams could meet her sister Serena in the final. Serena, who has won the tournament a record seven times, defeated 2006 champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-2, 6-3.

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Venus Williams' recent resurgence stalled when she lost in the quarterfinals to No. 12-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro 0-6, 6-1, 7-5 on Tuesday at the Miami Open.

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Two-time champion Andy Murray advanced to the semifinals of the Miami Open by rallying past unseeded Dominic Thiem 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 on Wednesday.

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World No. 1 Novak Djokovic of Serbia has reached the semifinals of the Miami Open, overcoming an early break to oust David Ferrer of Spain 7-5, 7-5 on Thursday night.

Djokovic faced a quick 3-0 deficit, then rallied and took control by winning 10 of the next 13 games. He'll play 22nd-seeded John Isner of the United States in the semifinals Friday night.

Powerfully ripping off five straight games at one point, Isner rolled past fourth-seeded Kei Nishikori 6-4, 6-3 becoming the first American man to go that deep in the draw at Key Biscayne since Mardy Fish in 2011.

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- Carla Suarez-Navarro advanced to the final and clinched her first top-10 ranking by beating Andrea Petkovic 6-3, 6-3 in a semifinal matchup Thursday.

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Andy Murray chased a sharply angled shot into the corner in vain and kept running, disappearing through a tunnel in the corner of the stadium.

He quickly returned to finish his job in the Miami Open semifinals, sending Tomas Berdych to the exit. After going up a break to start each set, Murray proceeded to lose his first service game but recovered and moved closer to his third Key Biscayne title by beating Berdych 6-4, 6-4.

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A tennis player isn't supposed to make it up as he or she goes along. It's a sport in which you're supposed to do things in specific ways, listen to your coach, adopt a game plan and, just as in real estate, observe the three most important factors. In this case they're execution, execution, execution.

Serena Williams doesn't especially like to do any of those things, except perhaps the last one -- but even that is sometimes negotiable. And you must admit, her approach has worked out pretty well. On Saturday, she won the Miami Open -- the 66th title of her career, and her eighth at this venue -- in a blowout of overmatched No.12 seed Carla Suarez Navarro. The match lasted under an hour and the final score was 6-2, 6-0.

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It got to the point that you wanted to avert your eyes. Wince with each heavy, pounding piece of tennis nastiness that Novak Djokovic dropped on Andy Murray. Wave your arms to get the umpire's attention and beseech him to stop the fight.

That's how physical and bruising it had become near the end of the Miami Open final, after Djokovic had sloughed off the lethargy that had enveloped him for a good portion of the second set. Murray, with his simple white shirt graying with sweat and clinging to his skin, was down 4-0 in the third set but still hoped he might find a way to turn it around, like he had after losing a first-set tiebreaker. Like he had when he came back in the third game of this set from love-40, ultimately staving off five break points before he finally capitulated.

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