Carlos Alcaraz and Joao Fonseca<\/a> over her. She revealed details of the conversation behind the scenes.<\/p>\n“I was actually like really shocked”<\/p>\n
“Well, I was\u00a0actually shocked that they\u00a0were considering\u00a0cancelling my match, or they were like\u00a0giving me a couple options of the\u00a0stadiums, and I was like, ‘But what’s the\u00a0problem for Alcaras and Fonseca start later?’\u00a0Because yesterday the night session\u00a0start at 9:00 and de Minaur was playing.”<\/p>\n
Sabalenka continued, “So, I was actually like really shocked the idea of like even\u00a0cancelling my match but I just decided\u00a0to play today\u00a0just so, if I win, I have a day\u00a0off, and I have time to prepare to\u00a0recharge and everything. But yeah, I was actually shocked to be honest.\u00a0But I’m happy that they gave me options\u00a0so I could choose what’s best for me.”<\/p>\n
When asked why she was shocked, Sabalenka replied, “I just like I think I never like deal\u00a0with something like that. So I think it’s like a first experience. I don’t\u00a0remember anything like that. I\u00a0just thought like it’s not a big problem\u00a0for me to play and then for the night\u00a0session to wait and start a little bit\u00a0later. But I guess that’s what the\u00a0tournament tickets… that’s what was better for the tournament.”<\/p>\n
“I’m just happy that they had options.”<\/p>\n
Sabalenka empathized with the tough call made by the directors, “I mean, it’s tricky because Alcaras was playing, so it’s kind of like you know two number ones and what they should do. I’m just happy that they had options.”<\/p>\n
Li is currently the World No. 39 and falls to 5-8 on the season. Sabalenka improved to 18-1 and will face Caty McNally in the Round of 32 tomorrow. <\/p>\n
The Miami Open presented by Itau runs through March 29. Stay locked into Sports Illustrated’s\u00a0Serve On SI\u00a0for all of your tennis news from the court and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rain wreaking havoc on sports in South Florida is not new. However, rain delays throughout the week have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-538820","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\/538820","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=538820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}