Miami Open tennis tournament announces impressive player list. Here’s who’s coming.
The 2020 Miami Open returns for its second year at Hard Rock Stadium on March 25 to April 5 and all the biggest names in tennis are on the acceptance list.
The player field features 19 players who have a combined 100 career Grand Slam singles titles, including Roger Federer and Serena Williams, Rafael Nadal, and reigning Australian Open champions Novak Djokovic and Sofia Kenin, the 21-year-old rising star from Pembroke Pines.
All of the top 76 ranked men and 74 of the top-ranked women are entered in the tournament.
Among the younger talents in the field: world No. 4 Daniil Medvedev, 2019 ATP Finals Champion Stefanos Tsitsipas, World No. 7 Alexander Zverev and Australia’s entertaining Nick Kyrgios. John Isner, the 2018 Miami Open champion, is also on the list, as is 2020 Australian Open finalist Dominic Thiem and three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka.
Leading the field on the women’s side is 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams, the 38-year-old Mom who is looking to win her ninth title in Miami, and defending Miami Open champion Ashleigh Barty of Australia, the reigning French Open champion. Another player to watch is 15-year-old sensation Coco Gauff of Delray Beach, who upset Venus Williams and former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka at the Australian Open before losing to Kenin.
Others on the Miami Open list include Osaka, Venus Williams, 2019 Wimbledon champion Simona Halep, defending U.S. Open champion Bianca Andreescu, Garbiñe Muguruza, Victoria Azarenka, Petra Kvitova, Angelique Kerber, Sloane Stephens, Jelena Ostapenko, Svetlana Kuznetsova, and 18-year-old Amanda Anisimova of Aventura.
New fan features at the event include the Sky View at Hard Rock Stadium, a gondola ride that will give fans a bird’s-eye view of the grounds. The site will also have increased shade structures and a new Grandstand video board.
Qualifying rounds will be March 23-24 and will determine 12 additional slots in each singles draw. The Miami Open also will award wildcards to five men and eight women. The women’s main draw begins Tuesday, March 24, followed by the first round of the men’s main draw on Wednesday, March 25.
Tickets are on sale and available by phone at 305-943-6736 or online at www.miamiopen.com. Individual session tickets start at $26. Ticket packages, group programs, and luxury hospitality offerings also are available.
This story was originally published February 12, 2020 at 12:16 PM.