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Every time Serena Williams wins a match in the Sony Open, and she made quite a habit of doing so over the years after reaching the final nine times and winning the title on six of those occasions, the world no.1 gets asked the question: You really do love Miami.
Television coverage of Miami has been the subject of controversy over the past week, attracting scrutiny of the rights deals covering the tournament.
Concern has been mounting for the past few days about Bernard Tomic after the 21 year-old Australian, whose notoriety is already expansive in tennis circles, added another unwanted record by playing the shortest match in ATP World Tour history; a 28 minutes long embarrassment against Jarkko Nieminen at the Sony Open in Miami.
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For most of the first set of this, Rafael Nadal was holding fairly easily and Milos Raonic was struggling. Then, out of the blue, Raonic had a break point in game ten, and Nadal double-faulted, and that was the set.
When Maria Sharapova went up 3-1 in the first set, we couldn't help but think, "Waitaminit, wasn't she just getting her serve plastered?" Yes, she was, but somehow she had saved all the break points (four in just two service games), and Serena had blown one.
Miami Sony Open. It was a match that could have gone either way. Andy Murray versus Novak Djokovic. They played each other since they were little kids. But what happened in Miami yesterday belonged back in those days.
Argentina’s Damian Steiner has been regarded as one of tennis’ leading umpires for the last five years and as regular Supervisor at ATP Challenger events is perceived as having an excellent grasp of the rules of the game. However Andy Murray would have good cause to query that reputation after a glaring error in umpiring...
This was a very long, very tough battle -- it really does seem as if Caroline Wozniacki is coming back to life. Coming back enough, at least, to have put herself in the Top Fifteen. But she had a lot of help -- Li Na made 32 errors in the first set, as against just one winner for Wozniacki.
One match doesn't really tell us what a player's form is like -- but this really seemed typical of how Andy Murray in 2014. Although the real issue here may have been how wound up he got about a particular point.
A bomb scare caused by a suspicious back pack last night halted the tennis and caused major lockdown at Miami’s Sony Open on Key Biscayne.
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have faced so little opposition so far at Miami, their biggest competition has been against each other for greatest serving dominance.
IMG, owners of the Sony Open in Miami, have admitted they might be forced to sell the event to concerns in China, the Middle East or India if they are continuously prevented in their efforts to upgrade the Crandon Park site on Key Biscayne.
Rafael Nadal hammered Fabio Fognini 6-2, 6-2 in just over an hour as Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray set up a re-run of the 2013 Wimbledon final. Nadal next plays Canadian 12th seed Milos Raonic, who reached the Miami quarters for the first time by beating German Benjamin Becker 6-3, 6-4 on a fourth match point.
Top seed Rafael Nadal thrilled a Spanish-speaking home crowd as he crushed Denis Istomin 6-1, 6-0 to steamroll into the fourth round. The Australian Open finalist fished off his demolition in 59 minutes with six breaks of serve to maintain a perfect 4-0 slate in the series with the Uzbek coached by his mother.
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