By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Monnday, January 29, 2024
The Miami Open is rising right into a racquet sport celebration.
The 2024 Miami Open offered by Itaú introduced in the present day that match will characteristic an elite wheelchair occasion and two-day Main League Pickleball (MLP) match, marking the first-time each occasions will happen at any 1000 collection match.
Extra: James Blake on Miami Open
The Miami Open is about for March 17-Thirty first at Exhausting Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens.
Daniil Medvedev is defending Miami Open males’s champion, Petra Kvitova gained the 2023 Miami Open ladies’s crown and isn’t planning to defend her title as she’s pregnant along with her first youngster.
From March 26-28, wheelchair tennis will make its debut in Miami.
Japan’s Shingo Kunieda, four-time Paralympic gold medalist and winner of 28 main singles titles, would be the match director with Grand Slam champions, Nice Britain’s Gordon Reid and Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez already confirmed within the area.
Main League Pickleball (MLP) may also make its debut from March 27 – 29, that includes a pro-am and two-day match starring 16 of the world’s finest gamers. A group of 16 high MLP execs will showcase their unbelievable skills through the All-Star match, full with spherical robin pool play and three playoff matches.
Extra occasions will embrace the MLP stars taking part in alongside celebrities in a Professional-Am spherical robin match and a Professional-Am crew exhibition match.
“We’re delighted to welcome each wheelchair tennis gamers and MLP stars to this 12 months’s Miami Open offered by Itaú,” Match Director James Blake mentioned. “We need to proceed to construct on the pageant environment that’s now so synonymous with the Open and we’re proud to be the primary 1000 collection occasion to showcase elite wheelchair tennis and pickleball athletes to our followers.”
In an interview with Tennis Now on the 2023 Miami Open, Match Director Blake mentioned the purpose is to create an leisure expertise.
“Once I first got here on board I positively wished to make it extra of an occasion,” Blake informed Tennis Now. “We’re at all times going to have the world’s finest tennis, which is clearly our foremost focus and is at all times going to be right here for the die-hard followers who need to see the perfect tennis on this planet. “However we’re additionally dedicated to creating an occasion round it as properly. So yeah, right here now we have the power so as to add all this unbelievable meals, unbelievable drinks, all of the actions to associate with it. And we simply have the power to broaden. I really like the truth that I can say “sure” to a variety of participant requests.
“You need further objectives in our soccer space? We will try this. You need expanded eating? I believe our participant eating space is the most important on tour for your complete 12 months.”
The Miami Open offered by Itaú will welcome greater than 30 of Miami’s main eating places and bars this 12 months as organizers intention to infuse tennis with the enduring tradition of Miami.
Pop-ups of Miami’s most interesting eating places will pepper the Campus with numerous culinary delights at each flip together with David Chang’s Fuku Hen, well-known for its scrumptious thigh-meat spicy fried hen sandwich; Cheeseburger Child identified to locals as “The Queen of South Seaside” and Ella’s Oyster Bar, serving the freshness of New England delicacies with the zest and complexity of Miami’s distinctive tradition. Match favorites returning to the Miami Open campus embrace Sushi Maki, Kiki on the River, and Bodega Taqueria y Tequila, whereas The Grove delivers the regional Florida flare that includes native Miami meals truck choices.
Inside the one tennis stadium courtroom constructed inside an NFL venue, stadium ticket holders may have the chance to expertise Milos, the award-winning seafood restaurant and the primary premium bookable eating possibility on the match, one other new addition for 2024.
Piper-Heidsieck Champagne Backyard, the Dobel Tequila Bar, the Botran Rum Lounge, Santa Margherita and No.3 Gin Lounge will provide guests a wide selection of refreshments and locations to chill out in between having fun with the feast of matches being performed on the ten competitors courts.
For a full record of meals and beverage choices on campus go to https://www.miamiopen.com/food-and-beverage
For ticket data, go to www.miamiopen.com
Photograph credit: Miami Open offered by Itaú and MLP