{"id":181448,"date":"2025-09-25T19:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181448\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T19:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:37:06","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-emma-raducanu-to-headline-at-marlins-ballpark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181448\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz, Emma Raducanu to headline at Marlins&#8217; ballpark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sep 25, 2025, 01:09 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>MIAMI &#8212; Top-ranked tennis player <a data-player-guid=\"07843754-8bdf-63b0-5983-24252738169e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3782\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> will headline the Miami Invitational later this year &#8212; a one-day exhibition that marks the first tennis event ever held at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-marlins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marlins<\/a>&#8216; home ballpark.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled for Dec. 8 at loanDepot Park, the one-time event will also feature No. 42 <a data-player-guid=\"9a28fc19-1dff-35eb-88f2-106e324b1333\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=11745\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joao Fonseca<\/a>, No. 4 <a data-player-guid=\"223cc423-bf69-2077-800f-c38d0d1e79f7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3221\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Anisimova<\/a> and No. 33 <a data-player-guid=\"a8cfe5f5-ce3d-3834-a3ec-d294d4ea6c5e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3398\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Raducanu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The invitational will feature two singles matches, each best-of-three sets with a 10-point tiebreaker to decide the third set.<\/p>\n<p>Anisimova, a US Open and Wimbledon finalist this year, will face 2021 US Open champion Raducanu. After that, six-time major champion Alcaraz will take on the 19-year-old Fonseca, Brazil&#8217;s top-ranked singles player, in the first meeting between the two.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/46375095\/carlos-alcaraz-overcomes-ankle-scare-japan-open-win\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2025\/0905\/r1541513_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/46186523\/us-open-2025-alcaraz-mens-champion-sinner-final\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2025\/0907\/r1542423_2_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Molly Pendleton, a senior vice president at Unified Events, which is partnering with loanDepot Park for the event, said the goal is in part to grow the game of tennis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To feature two of the brightest women&#8217;s stars in Anisimova and Raducanu alongside the first ever meeting between Alcaraz and Fonseca should prove to be an electric night for tennis fans,&#8221; Pendleton said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 25, 2025, 01:09 PM ET MIAMI &#8212; Top-ranked tennis player Carlos Alcaraz will headline the Miami Invitational&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-181448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}