Britain’s Jack Draper suffered a surprise defeat to American Reilly Opelka in the second round \u2060of the Miami Open on Friday.<\/p>\n
Draper<\/a> \u200chad arrived in Florida on the back of a quarter-final run at Indian Wells, \u200cjust his second ATP Tour event after an extended spell \u200cout with an arm injury, but was unable to build on that momentum.<\/p>\n Opelka<\/a> \u200cproduced a dominant serving display to beat 25th seed Draper \u200c7-6(3) 7-6(0)<\/a>, firing 25 aces and 47 winners to reach the third round on home soil.<\/p>\n “I didn’t have many chances, especially on his serve,” Draper told reporters. “I \u200cdidn’t get broken in the match so that \u2060was kind of my job, \u200cright?”<\/p>\n Earlier, after rain disrupted play in Miami Gardens, fellow American Quinn<\/a> saved seven \u200bset points on his way to a 6-4 7-6(7)<\/a> victory over Ruud<\/a>, progressing for the first time in his career \u200bto a third round at a Masters 1000 event.<\/p>\n Italy’s Matteo Berrettini<\/a>, a former world number six, also clinched a surprise 6-4 6-4<\/a> win \u2060over 10th seed Alexander \u200bBublik<\/a>.<\/p>\n Top seeds advance<\/p>\n Persistent rain forced further scheduling changes, with several matches pushed to Saturday, while world number one and newly crowned Indian Wells champion Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> was moved to a secondary court to face Ann Li<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sabalenka \u200csurvived a stern battle against her American opponent, grinding out a 7-6(5) 6-4 victory<\/a> to reach the third round.<\/p>\n “I was there, I was fighting no matter what, even though my game probably wasn’t the best one that I have,” Sabalenka said in her on-court interview.<\/p>\n “She played incredible tennis – she was super aggressive and she served incredibly.”<\/p>\n Men’s top seed Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> later kept his title charge on track, sailing through to the next round with a composed 6-4 6-4<\/a> win over \u200cBrazilian teenager Joao Fonseca<\/a>.<\/p>\n World number two Elena Rybakina<\/a> continued her tremendous \u200bform, defeating her Kazakh compatriot Yulia Putintseva<\/a> 6-3 6-3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Jack Draper suffered a surprise defeat to American Reilly Opelka in the second round \u2060of the Miami…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-200536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}