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Update published 2/29/2024: The Miami Open has announced its first wildcard participants: Venus Williams, Caroline Wozniacki, Emma Raducanu, and Kei Nishikori. More wildcards will be announced in the coming weeks and added to the list.
Update published 2/26/2024: Miami Open tennis tournament organizers have shared a list of confirmed acceptances to the tournament, to be held March 17-31 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. On the men’s side, the list is headed by world number ones Novak Djokovic (men’s) and Iga Swiatek (women’s).
Among Florida residents, local superstar Coco Gauff is currently ranked third in the world, Jessica Pegula fifth, and Madison Keys 20th. On the men’s side are Taylor Fritz (tenth) Tommy Paul (14th), Frances Tiafoe (16th) and Ben Shelton (17th). The last time an American won the singles championship at the Miami Open was 2018, when Sloane Stephens and John Isner made it a U.S. sweep.
Below are the top 32 players on the men’s and women’s sides, listed in order of current world ranking, with nationality where applicable per the world tennis federations (confirmed as of February 26, 2024; see current list):
Men (ATP Acceptance List)
1 Novak Djokovic SRB
2 Carlos Alcaraz ESP
3 Jannik Sinner ITA
4 Daniil Medvedev
5 Andrey Rublev
6 Alexander Zverev GER
7 Holger Rune DEN
8 Hubert Hurkacz POL
9 Alex de Minaur AUS
10 Taylor Fritz USA
11 Casper Ruud NOR
12 Stefanos Tsitsipas GRE
13 Grigor Dimitrov BUL
14 Tommy Paul USA
15 Karen Khachanov
16 Frances Tiafoe USA
17 Ben Shelton USA
18 Ugo Humbert FRA
19 Adrian Mannarino FRA
20 Francisco Cerundolo ARG
21 Sebastian Baez ARG
22 Nicolas Jarry CHI
23 Alexander Bublik KAZ
24 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina ESP
25 Jan-Lennard Struff GER
26 Lorenzo Musetti ITA
27 Tallon Griekspoor NED
*27 Denis Shapovalov CAN
28 Cameron Norrie GBR
29 Tomas Martin Etcheverry ARG
30 Sebastian Korda USA
31 Felix Auger-Aliassime CAN
* (Protected Ranking)
Women (WTA Acceptance List)
1 Iga Swiatek POL
2 Aryna Sabalenka
3 Coco Gauff USA
4 Elena Rybakina KAZ
5 Jessica Pegula USA
6 Ons Jabeur TUN
7 Marketa Vondrousova CZE
8 Qinwen Zheng CHN
9 Maria Sakkari GRE
10 Jelena Ostapenko LAT
11 Karolina Muchova CZE
12 Daria Kasatkina
13 Beatriz Haddad Maia BRA
14 Jasmine Paolini ITA
15 Liudmila Samsonova
16 Ekaterina Alexandrova
17 Elina Svitolina UKR
19 Veronika Kudermetova
20 Madison Keys USA
21 Barbora Krejcikova CZE
22 Sorana Cirstea ROU
23 Caroline Garcia FRA
24 Anna Kalinskaya
25 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
26 Emma Navarro USA
27 Elise Mertens BEL
28 Donna Vekic CRO
29 Linda Noskova CZE
30 Victoria Azarenka
31 Anastasia Potapova
*31 Angelique Kerber GER
*Special Ranking
Original story follows below:
In a wild testament to pickleball’s growing popularity, the Miami Open, one of the largest tennis (keyword: tennis) tournaments outside of the four Grand Slam events, is getting in on the hype this year.
Major League Pickleball (MLP), a team-based league and one of three prominent professional pickleball tours, will host a 16-team tournament at the Miami Open March 27-29. Also new and happening March 26-28 at the Miami Open will be a wheelchair tennis tournament featuring four-time Paralympic gold medalist Shingo Kunieda of Japan.
“We are delighted to welcome both wheelchair tennis players and MLP stars to this year’s Miami Open presented by Itaú,” Miami Open tournament director James Blake said in a statement. “We want to continue to build on the festival atmosphere that is now so synonymous with the Open, and we are proud to be the first [top-tier] event to showcase elite wheelchair tennis and pickleball athletes to our fans.”
Beyond the Grand Slam tournaments in tennis – the U.S. Open, French Open, Australian Open, and Wimbledon – the Miami Open and the Indian Wells Open in California are widely regarded as the premium tournaments in the sport, attracting the best gathering of men’s and women’s players. This year’s Miami Open will take place March 17-31 at Hard Rock Stadium.
In addition to the Miami Open pickleball announcement, Miami has been pickleball central in recent times. In mid-January, the first-ever Pickle Games happened at Miami Marine Stadium, including marquee matches played on top of a floating shipping barge.
In a further testament to the tennis community embracing pickleball, the Pickleball Slam returns to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood this Sunday. The event will be televised on ESPN and features tennis legends John McEnroe, Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf, and Maria Sharapova battling it out for a total prize purse of $1 million.
Miami Open. Sunday, March 17, through Sunday, March 31, at Hard Rock Stadium, 347 Don Shula Dr., Miami Gardens; miamiopen.com. Tickets cost $29 to $1,465 via ticketmaster.com.
