Qinwen Zheng knocked off Madison Keys and said this about her new second coach Marcos Baghdatis: “I really wish we can work well together but we are still in the trial period time. And I just want to keep focus on my match and let’s go for next round.”
The Queen on what she missed about being on tour: “I think it’s nice to compete with all the girls… My body likes pressure. During this six months when I’m without pressure, I feel my life is so boring, honestly so boring without tennis.”
Sebastian Korda scored the best win of his career and three set upset of Carlos Alcaraz who revealed his short term plans: “Well, I don’t know. I don’t know. Probably I’m going to go back home, which I’m just looking forward to, stay chilling with my family, with my friends. A couple of days. I don’t know how much they, my team, are going to allow me to have rest and days off. And all of a sudden you just go back on track, go back on the court. The clay season is around the corner and I have really good tournaments that I’m excited about playing there. My mind right now is to take some days off, reset my mind, reset batteries and be ready and in a good state for the clay season.”
One long time observer of tennis speculated Carlos may have subconsciously tanked as there is no motive to kill himself to win Miami when the next big goal is Roland Garros. This shocker makes the Lacoste sponsored player in the final theory more plausible. Lacoste is a major sponsor of Miami Open. Lacoste players Fils and Medvedev remain alive in the draw.
Perhaps the most shocking illogical head to head rivalry is Tsitsipas 12-1 deMinaur. The Greek beat the Aussie 63 76 in the second round in Miami.
After winning his second ever Masters 1000 match, Rafael Jodar also just met Queen Sofia of Spain behind the bleachers of the stadium court.
Steve · March 23, 2026 at 11:25 am
We must congratulate your favorite Jannik Sinner for winning Indian Wells. 🙂 Let’s see what he can do here despite wearing Nike.
Scoop Malinowski · March 23, 2026 at 11:46 am
Did you see that video of Team Sinner roughing up Cahill while playing some kind of warm up ball game inside the stadium somewhere? Very bizarre how they act like 8 year olds. That team has a bizarre dysfuntional energy, very very weird. Fonseca called Sinner a robot who does everything perfectly and Sinner agreed with that assessment when interviewed by Weissman )
Steve · March 24, 2026 at 6:59 am
No, where can I check out the warm-up clip?
Sinner moves out the corners like a skier and, obviously, he’s kind of a Djokovic 2.0 who was also called a super robot. Some refer to Novak as Ultron. For Sinner, I think it’s accurate and he accepts that description. Just as Fonseca is Seyboth Wild 2.0. 🙂
Scoop Malinowski · March 24, 2026 at 10:40 pm
Steve, not sure where you can see it, just stumbled upon it on twitter the other day. There was a similar one years ago of Federer bullying the bald guy on his team under the stadium I think AO or maybe Miami. Hard to believe how oddly these top players behave with their teams in private.
Scoop Malinowski · March 26, 2026 at 3:34 pm
Who noticed the Miami Open crowd was for Fils more so than for Paul last night? This has happened before, at US Open the Armstrong stadium crowd was more for Monfils over Isner. Who noticed the post match interview territorial battle between stadium boss Andrew Krasny and Blair Henley who has been relegated to grandstand, what about equality? Who noticed Su Wei Hsieh has been absent from IW and now Miami, apparently ditched by Ostapenko.