![\"Moise](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/koume-montpellier-2026.jpg\")
<\/p>\n ATP Tour
\n 17-year-old Kouame among #NextGenATP trio to receive Miami wild card<\/p>\n
ATP Masters 1000 event will be held from 18-29 March 2026<\/p>\n
March 12, 2026<\/p>\n
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Presse Sports \/ JEAN BAPTISTE AUTISSIER<\/p>\n
Moise Kouame in action in Montpellier.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
The milestones keep on coming for Moise Kouame<\/a> in 2026. <\/p>\n The Frenchman is set to make his ATP Masters 1000 main-draw debut later this month after he was awarded a wild card for the upcoming Miami Open presented by Itau<\/a>. <\/p>\n Kouame, who only turned 17 on 6 March, began his year by lifting his first two titles on the ITF World Tennis Tour in his homeland. He followed those successes by coming through qualifying to make his ATP Tour main-draw debut at the Open Occitanie<\/a> in Montpellier, where he pushed Top 100 star Aleksandar Kovacevic<\/a> to three sets. Now the Paris native will make his Masters 1000 debut at Hard Rock Stadium. <\/p>\n Kouame is not the only #NextGenATP star to receive a Miami wild card. The 19-year-old Japanese Rei Sakamoto<\/a>, who came through qualifying to earn his Masters 1000 main-draw debut in Miami in 2025, has been awarded a spot in this year’s main draw.<\/p>\n Home fans will also be keen to check on the progress of 18-year-old Darwin Blanch<\/a>. The American played two Masters 1000s, starting with Miami, as a 16-year-old in 2024. The other Masters 1000 he played was Madrid, where he faced off against ATP Tour icon Rafael Nadal<\/a>. <\/p>\n You May Also Like: Blanch, 18, banks biggest career win at Phoenix Challenger<\/a><\/p>\n Two other players, 22-year-old American Martin Damm<\/a> and Chinese star Wu Yibing<\/a>, were announced as main-draw wild cards for the men\u2019s singles in Miami. Meanwhile the wild cards for the women\u2019s singles draw are headlined by home favourites and former Grand Slam champions Venus Williams and Sloane Stephens. Williams and Stephens\u2019 fellow Americans Taylor Townsend, Jennifer Brady and Ashlyn Krueger also received wild cards, as did Austria\u2019s Lilli Tagger, Australia\u2019s Emerson Jones and Czechia\u2019s Darja Vidmanova. <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATP Tour 17-year-old Kouame among #NextGenATP trio to receive Miami wild card ATP Masters 1000 event will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-474810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}