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The Serbian plays this Friday against Dimitrov. Fritz will do it against Messik

March 28, 2025

On Sunday there will be an unpublished champion in the history of Miami Open present by Touu since it has been played at the Hard Rock Stadium, the ATP Masters 1000 Florida headquarters since 2019.

In fact, only one player has previously stepped on the semifinals of the tournament played in this location north of Miami: the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov. While the others who are still alive, the Serbian Novak Djokovic, the American Taylor Fritz and the Czech Jakub Mensik, will play for the first time this round in the house of the Miami Dolphins of the NFL.

Of course, if it is an experience in the semifinals of the tournament, regardless of its headquarters, none approaches the baggage of ‘Nole’. Not only will he be playing his seventh game in this round in Miami, the second best record in the history of the contest (only surpassed by Andre Agassi). It also occurs with a brutal effectiveness of 100% in this instance.

For the first time in Miami semifinals since he was champion in 2016, the 37 -year -old right -hander has only lost one set in these circumstances: before Roger Federer in the round of the last four in 2009. Otherwise, he have always been classifications to the final of the tournament thanks to triumphs in corrido sets (and a w/or before Kei Nishikori in 2014).

If the current No. 5 of the PIF ATP Rankings manages to lengthen its undefeated at this point in the championship, it would strengthen as the second tennis player with more advances in late in Miami and would be one of the record that OSTEA AGASSI (8).

Not just that. It would reach 60 finals in ATP Masters 1000 and extend the record in this statistic. In addition, a victory would leave one of its title No. 100 of the ATP Tour, and its seventh title in Miami, which would mean a record of the tournament.

The context feeds the illusion of fans to achieve it. In front he will have the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, with whom he has a crushing record of 12-1. The only triumph of the current No. 15 of the world against ‘Nole’ arrived in Madrid 2013 in the third duel of the rivalry between them.

If Dimitrov wants to stop the Serbian streak this fortnight in which Sets has not yet lost, he will have to redouble efforts after a battle of almost three hours in the quarterfinals against the Argentine Francisco Cerúando, against which he saved a match point. The encounter that the preclassified No. 14 had to leave track with the help of medical personnel was so strenuous.

Recover and defeat Ex No. 1 would return to an instance in which he stayed in 2024 (p. With Sinner in the final), and confirm his great improvement in Miami. Before 2024, it had never gone from eighths in this contest, and now it is one of the four players with multiple semifinals of the tournament being thirty, matching Agassi, Jimmy Connors, Roger Federer and John Isner.

In the other semifinal key, Fritz and Mesik will collide for the second time, and first since the American won in sets in the US Open 2023. The local player will try to reach his second final at the ATP Masters 1000 level, and first since he was champion three years ago in Indian Wells, as well as cutting a streak of three losses in semifinals of this type of tournaments.

After beating Berrettini in his seventh Match Point, No. 4 of the PIF ATP Rankings now has 80 victories at AP Masters 1000 level, and now he is two of the 300 in his career at the ATP Tour. A favorable result on Friday would also boost it at its end No. 17 in the circuit, and first of the season.

The last place in the match for the championship was John Isner in 2019, when the latter fell into the definition with Roger Federer. Fritz hopes to end this drought of Americans in Miami.

Mesik, meanwhile, will be the one who has less to lose in the day. In its first semifinal in Masters 1000, No. 54 of the ranks will seek its second final in the ATP Tour, and first from which he lost in Doha in 2024.

If he succeeds, the 19 -year -old would become the first Czech in a final in Miami since 2010 when Tomas Berdych was runner -up. In addition, it would rise to No. 30 of the live ranking and ensure its first irruption in the top 30, the objective that had been set by 2025 at the beginning of the year.