Miami Open resumes play after six-hour rain delay

Peter Staples/ATP Tour

After a six-hour rain delay Thursday at the Miami Open presented by Itau, tournament officials have begun calling players to court at 5 p.m. to begin the day's action.

Andrey Rublev is among the ATP Tour stars beginning to play at the ATP Masters 1000 event. The fifth seed is facing Tomas Machac. All doubles matches for the day have been cancelled.

The Stadium Court schedule on Friday features second seed Jannik Sinner, who will take on countryman Andrea Vavassori in the second match on. Defending champion Daniil Medvedev will take on Marton Fucsovics in the final match of the day. The No. 1 American in the PIF ATP Rankings, Taylor Fritz, will play his first Lexus ATP Head2Head clash against Thiago Seyboth Wild on Grandstand, where Stefanos Tsitsipas first takes on Denis Shapovalov.

Other interesting matches set for Friday in Miami include former World No. 1 Andy Murray vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry and Casper Ruud against #NextGenATP Frenchman Luca Van Assche. All doubles matches have been cancelled for Friday due to the delayed start.

REVISED ORDER OF PLAY - FRIDAY, 22 MARCH, 2024

STADIUM start 3:30 pm
WTA - [3] C. Gauff (USA) vs [Q] N. Podoroska (ARG)
ATP - [Q] A. Vavassori (ITA) vs [2] J. Sinner (ITA)

Not Before 7:00 PM
WTA - [1] I. Swiatek (POL) vs C. Giorgi (ITA)

Not Before 8:30 pm
ATP - M. Fucsovics (HUN) vs [3] D. Medvedev

GRANDSTAND start 3:30 pm
WTA - P. Badosa (ESP) vs [2] A. Sabalenka
ATP - [PR] D. Shapovalov (CAN) vs [10] S. Tsitsipas (GRE)
WTA - N. Osaka (JPN) vs [15] E. Svitolina (UKR)
ATP - [Q] T. Seyboth Wild (BRA) vs [12] T. Fritz (USA)

BUTCH BUCHHOLZ start Not Before 3:30 pm
ATP - [5] A. Rublev vs T. Machac (CZE)
ATP - A. Murray (GBR) vs [29] T. Etcheverry (ARG)
WTA - L. Zhu (CHN) vs [5] J. Pegula (USA)
WTA - E. Avanesyan vs [6] O. Jabeur (TUN)

COURT 1 start 3:30 pm
WTA - [Q] S. Hunter (AUS) vs [20] E. Navarro (USA)
WTA - S. Stephens (USA) vs [19] S. Cirstea (ROU)
ATP - [7] C. Ruud (NOR) vs L. Van Assche (FRA)

Not Before 7:00 pm
ATP - C. O'Connell (AUS) vs [21] F. Tiafoe (USA)

COURT 7 start 3:30 pm
WTA - D. Vekic (CRO) vs [14] E. Alexandrova
WTA - [10] D. Kasatkina vs [Q] C. Liu (USA)
ATP - [13] T. Paul (USA) vs [WC] M. Damm (USA)
ATP - [30] C. Norrie (GBR) vs F. Cobolli (ITA)

COURT 5 start Not Before 3:30 pm
ATP - [14] U. Humbert (FRA) vs B. van de Zandschulp (NED)
ATP - [17] A. Bublik (KAZ) vs M. Arnaldi (ITA)
ATP - [25] T. Griekspoor (NED) vs A. Michelsen (USA)
ATP - [22] N. Jarry (CHI) vs J. Draper (GBR)

COURT 2 start 3:30 pm
WTA - [21] A. Pavlyuchenkova vs S. Rogers (USA)
WTA - [23] C. Garcia (FRA) vs V. Tomova (BUL)
WTA - [30] A. Potapova vs D. Collins (USA)

COURT 3 start 3:30 pm
WTA - [12] J. Paolini (ITA) vs [Q] K. Volynets (USA)
WTA - [31] L. Fernandez (CAN) vs [Q] E. Arango (COL)
ATP - [WC] J. Shang (CHN) vs [27] A. Davidovich Fokina (ESP)

COURT 6 start 3:30 pm
WTA - A. Rus (NED) vs [LL] O. Dodin (FRA)
ATP - D. Koepfer (GER) vs [18] S. Baez (ARG)
WTA - [Q] M. Timofeeva vs [26] L. Noskova (CZE)