By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Monnday, January 29, 2024
The Miami Open is rising right into a racquet sport celebration.
The 2024 Miami Open introduced by Itaú introduced immediately that event will function an elite wheelchair occasion and two-day Main League Pickleball (MLP) event, marking the first-time each occasions will happen at any 1000 collection event.
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The Miami Open is ready for March 17-Thirty first at Laborious Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens.
Daniil Medvedev is defending Miami Open males’s champion, Petra Kvitova gained the 2023 Miami Open girls’s crown and isn’t planning to defend her title as she’s pregnant along with her first little one.
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 event director with Grand Slam champions, Nice Britain’s Gordon Reid and Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez already confirmed within the area.
Main League Pickleball (MLP) will even make its debut from March 27 – 29, that includes a pro-am and two-day event starring 16 of the world’s finest gamers. A group of 16 prime MLP professionals will showcase their unbelievable abilities through the All-Star event, full with spherical robin pool play and three playoff matches.
Further occasions will embody the MLP stars taking part in alongside celebrities in a Professional-Am spherical robin event and a Professional-Am group exhibition match.
“We’re delighted to welcome each wheelchair tennis gamers and MLP stars to this 12 months’s Miami Open introduced by Itaú,” Match Director James Blake stated. “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 stated the aim is to create an leisure expertise.
“After I first got here on board I positively needed to make it extra of an occasion,” Blake advised Tennis Now. “We’re all the time going to have the world’s finest tennis, which is clearly our principal focus and is all the time going to be right here for the die-hard followers who need to see one of the best tennis on this planet. “However we’re additionally dedicated to creating an occasion round it as nicely. So yeah, right here we’ve the flexibility so as to add all this unbelievable meals, unbelievable drinks, all of the actions to associate with it. And we simply have the flexibility to broaden. I like the truth that I can say “sure” to loads of participant requests.
“You need additional objectives in our soccer space? We will do this. You need expanded eating? I feel our participant eating space is the most important on tour for the complete 12 months.”
The Miami Open introduced by Itaú will welcome greater than 30 of Miami’s main eating places and bars this 12 months as organizers goal to infuse tennis with the enduring tradition of Miami.
Pop-ups of Miami’s best 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 embody 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 court docket 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 event, 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 supply guests a big selection of refreshments and locations to calm down 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
Picture credit: Miami Open introduced by Itaú and MLP
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