Schedule and Preview Miami Open 2025 Day Nine: Raducanu-Pegula and Djokovic-Korda headline Quarter-Final action
The Quarter-Finals take centre stage on Wednesday at the Miami Open albeit apart from one tie which got cancelled for the day from Tuesday’s rain delays. Emma Raducanu, Iga Swiatek and Novak Djokovic all headline the action with the schedule now confirmed.
It all begins with Swiatek on Wednesday who no doubt will be favourite for a crushing win despite the epic run that her opponent Alexandra Eala has gone on this week in Florida. The Filipino who was long touted as a part of Rafael Nadal’s Academy has shown this week why she was touted.
Despite defeating Paula Badosa by retirement, she also priorly saw off Madison Keys. Albeit Swiatek is a bigger opposition than either. The former World No.1 has a bit of a habit of ending the runs of players who ordinarily wouldn’t be there.
Take Eva Lys at the Australian Open who had her epic run to the Last 16 and faced Swiatek and quickly learned in a pretty crushing defeat. To say Eala has no chance is a bit unfair but it will certainly be an uphill struggle and an off Swiatek only really that heralds that outcome.
For the winner of Alexander Zverev v Arthur Fils, it will certainly be a tough ordeal. It was a bit of a bizarre scene yesterday. While the rain subsided and all games were played, Zverev and Fils for some reason was the first to get culled from the schedule. They will now return today to finally play it and sit as a bit of an odd anomaly in the day of Quarter-Finals.
Even weirder of course is the fact that Zverev or Fils has to return tomorrow with their opponent getting two days rest being Jakub Mensik who managed to get through without playing against Tomas Machac. If Zverev v Fils goes three sets fear for the winner as they have to face a fresh and healthy Mensik tomorrow who unlike the winner tonight will have not gone through the ringer.