Aryna Sabalenka has declared that she was \u201creally shocked\u201d about the scheduling of her opening match at the 2026 Miami Open.<\/p>\n
The world No 1 defeated 39th-ranked Ann Li 7-6(5), 6-4 in the second round of the WTA 1000 event at the Hard Rock Stadium on Friday night.<\/p>\n
The early rounds of the Miami Open have been heavily affected by rain, with all matches cancelled on Wednesday and eight pushed back from Friday to Saturday.<\/p>\n
Play was suspended several times on Friday, which led to Sabalenka<\/a>\u2018s match being moved from the main Stadium court to the Butch Buchholz court.<\/p>\n In her press conference, Sabalenka revealed organisers gave her the option of rescheduling her match to Saturday or playing it an another court.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, I was actually shocked that they were considering cancelling my match, or they were giving me couple options of the stadiums,\u201d said the Belarusian.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I was like, \u2018But, what\u2019s the problem for [Carlos] Alcaraz and [Joao] Fonseca [to] start later\u2019. Because yesterday, the night session started at nine, and then Mirra [Andreeva] was playing.<\/p>\n Alcaraz & Fonseca react to first meeting, Draper candid after shock loss, Gauff\u2019s serving nightmare \u2013 Miami Open roundup<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Miami Open: Joao Fonseca makes telling distinction between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cSo I was actually really shocked [by] the idea of even cancelling my match. But I just decided to play today, just so that, if I win, I have a day off. And I have time to prepare, to recharge and everything.<\/p>\n \u201cBut yeah, I was actually shocked, to be honest. But I\u2019m happy that they gave me options so I could choose what\u2019s the best for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked why she was shocked, Sabalenka said: \u201cI think I never deal with something like that, so I think it\u2019s like a first experience. I don\u2019t remember anything like that.<\/p>\n \u201cI just thought it\u2019s not a big problem for me to play and then for the night session to wait and play a little bit later. But I guess that\u2019s what the tournament, tickets\u2026 that\u2019s what was better for the tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n The four-time Grand Slam champion was then asked if she expects to play on the main court given she is the world No 1.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, it\u2019s tricky because Alcaraz was playing, so it\u2019s kind of like, you know, two No 1s\u2026 and what they should do. I\u2019m just happy that I had options,\u201d said the 27-year-old.<\/p>\n Sabalenka will face world No 72 Caty McNally in the third round in Miami.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Alex Eala has already taken Emma Raducanu\u2019s position and there could be much more to come<\/a> The post Aryna Sabalenka \u2018really shocked\u2019 as she criticises Miami Open chiefs over Alcaraz, Fonseca decision<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aryna Sabalenka has declared that she was \u201creally shocked\u201d about the scheduling of her opening match at the 2026 Miami Open. The world No 1 defeated 39th-ranked Ann Li 7-6(5), 6-4 in the second round of the WTA 1000 event at the Hard Rock Stadium on Friday night. The early rounds of the Miami Open […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Miami Open News<\/h2>\n
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