There will be no men\u2019s singles Sunshine Double in 2025 after an opening-match exit for Jack Draper in Miami \u2013 and his fellow Indian Wells semi-finalists also succumbed to a similar fate.<\/p>\n
In his first match since winning his maiden Masters 1000 title in Indian Wells, and reaching a career-high of world No 7 in the process, Draper<\/a> was beaten 7-6(2), 7-6(3) by Jakub Mensik.<\/p>\n It was a sublime display from Mensik, widely considered one of the most talented rising stars in the men\u2019s game.<\/p>\n The 19-year-old hit a staggering 21 aces \u2013 with no double faults \u2013 and dominated both tiebreaks to seal the sixth top-10 win of his young career.<\/p>\n Defeat would have been a disappointment for Draper, though there was little he could have done against an in-form opponent \u2013 and he was not the only man to go deep in Indian Wells and then struggle in Miami.<\/p>\n Joining the sixth seed in exiting the tournament on Saturday was 11th seed and Indian Wells runner-up Holger Rune.<\/p>\n The Dane was beaten 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(5) by Reilly Opelka in their second-round clash, with Rune missing out on the chance to seal a return to the top-10 win of the ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and Daniil Medvedev\u2014who lost to Draper and Rune in the Indian Wells semi-finals, respectively \u2014 previously suffered shock defeats on Friday.<\/p>\n Second seed Alcaraz, the 2022 Miami Open champion and title favourite in 2025, was far from his best in a stunning 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 loss to David Goffin.<\/p>\n Earlier in the day, seventh seed and 2023 Miami champion Medvedev was stunned 6-2, 6-3 in a lopsided loss to world No 56 Jaume Munar.<\/p>\n Medvedev has fallen down to world No 10 in the ATP Live Rankings and will be outside of the top 10 if Alex de Minaur wins his third-round clash against Joao Fonseca on Monday.<\/p>\n Draper is the first Indian Wells men\u2019s singles champion to lose his opening Miami match since Dominic Thiem in 2019, though collectively all four men have made unwanted history.<\/p>\n This is the first time since the Masters 1000 format was officially introduced in 1990 that all four Indian Wells men\u2019s singles semi-finalists have then lost their opening match at the Miami Open.<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz opens up on mental state and addresses umpire dispute after Miami Open exit<\/a><\/p>\n Novak Djokovic reveals what Andy Murray did that helped him produce \u2018flawless\u2019 Miami performance<\/a><\/p>\n It is also only the second time in Masters 1000 history that the four semi-finalists from the previous Masters event have all tasted defeat at the next such event.<\/p>\n The previous time this happened was across the 2022 Canadian Open and 2022 Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n On that occasion, Canadian Open champion Pablo Carreno Busta was beaten in round one by Miomir Kecmanovic, while runner-up Hubert Hurkacz fell in three sets to John Isner.<\/p>\n The two Canadian Open semi-finalists \u2013 Casper Ruud and Dan Evans \u2013 lost to Ben Shelton and Filip Krajnovic, respectively.<\/p>\n Read Next<\/strong>:\u00a0How Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s Miami loss affects ATP Rankings battle with Jannik Sinner & Alexander Zverev<\/a><\/p>\n The post Jack Draper, Carlos Alcaraz & Indian Wells semi-finalists make unwanted history after Miami exits<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There will be no men\u2019s singles Sunshine Double in 2025 after an opening-match exit for Jack Draper in Miami \u2013 and his fellow Indian Wells semi-finalists also succumbed to a similar fate. In his first match since winning his maiden Masters 1000 title in Indian Wells, and reaching a career-high of world No 7 in […]<\/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-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","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=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Miami Open News<\/h2>\n