The Miami Open tennis tournament is moving to Hard Rock Stadium in 2019 after 30 years in Key Biscayne, Florida. Despite initial skepticism from fans, ticket sales are ahead of pace. Construction on the site is well underway.
For two weeks, hundred of the best 35-to-45-year-old male and female tennis players in the world will be competing for travel expenses and trophies at the ITF Young Seniors World Championships.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement says Michael Watters of Seminole County stole thousands by using the identities of pro athletes like Miami Dolphins’ Jason Taylor and Zach Thomas, tennis’ Jennifer Capriati and Backstreet Boys’ Howie Dorough.
Sloane Stephens, a Plantation, Florida, native and the No. 4 ranked women's tennis player in the world, was eliminated in her first-round match at Wimbledon in London to Croatia's Donna Vekic.
The French Open semifinal between Sloane Stephens and Madison Keys is the first All-American semi there in 16 years. Both players trained in South Florida.
South Florida racket icon and TV analyst Chris Evert has just listed her sprawling Boca Raton house for sale, according to real estate records. Asking price: $4.99 million.
Ulyana Shirokova, a 5-foot-9 freshman from Russia, and Dominika Paterova, who is 5-8 and from the Czech Republic, are helping boost the University of Miami Hurricanes as the NCAA tennis playoffs get set to begin at various sites on May 11.
Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki says she might boycott the 2019 Miami Open to protest fans' behavior during her second-round loss to Monica Puig in March.
The tennis courts at Norman and Jean Reach Park in Hialeah got a colorful facelift thanks to Kiik Create, a collaborative project by artists Maneoela and Gray, who are working with the USTA to promote public courts.
Hassan Whiteside vented about his lack of playing time for the Heat. The Miami Open played its last match at Key Biscayne. The Marlins split their opening series with the Cubs. A lot happened in South Florida sports this weekend.
John Isner beat Alexander Zverev of Germany 6-7 (4-7), 6-4, 6-4 to become the first American man to win the Miami Open since 2010. It was the final match before the tournament moves to Hard Rock Stadium in 2019.
Sloane Stephens, who often played at Key Biscayne as a child, improved her unblemished record in career finals to 6-0 by collecting her first career Miami Open title with a 7-6 (7-5), 6-1 win over sixth-seeded Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia.
At 6-10, the muscular John Isner can launch serves that are clocked at more than 140 miles per hour, making them more of a blur than visible. Better not blink.
American John Isner stunned crowd favorite and fifth-seeded Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina with a 6-1, 7-6 (2) semifinal victory at the Miami Open in Crandon Park.
Danielle Collins, the 93rd-ranked two-time NCAA champion and graduate of the University of Virginia, pulled off a 6-2, 6-3 shocking upset of seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams in the quarterfinals of the Miami Open.
Miami Open Tournament Director James Blake provides a tour of the 2019 Miami Open site to media at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens on Tuesday, March 27, 2018. Tennis courts construction has also begun outside of the stadium.
