Miami Open: Matches set to go ahead, but with reduced prizemoney and limited spectators

Miami Open: Matches set to go ahead, but with reduced prizemoney and limited spectators
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Miami Open venue

Miami Open 2021 will go ahead, but with lots of changes. Firstly, there has been a reduction in the prize money for this marque event. The winner usually gets in excess of one million dollars, 1.3 million $, but this year it is barely three hundred thousand dollars, 300,110 $, only. Also there has been a slashing ,of close to 50%, in the total prize money amount. It is 6.68 million $ this year, 3.34 million $ each for WTA and ATP, down from from 16.7 million $ in 2019. 

Apart from that, the players will be staying in a bubble. And they will only travel between the hotel and the venue. But they are exempt from Quarantine protocols. The 5000 seater stadium will also see only 20% of its capacity filled. This again is due to the Covid protocols.  

Roger Federer and Ash Barty are  the defending champion at the Miami Open 

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Roger Federer Ash Barty

The Miami Open was cancelled in 2020, but Roger Federer won the ATP Miami Open in 2019 at the Hard Rock Stadium. After being held at the Crandon Park in Key Biscayne for thirty two years, the tournament made its debut at Hard Rock Stadium, home of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins ,in 2019. 

Roger Federer became the first player to lift the trophy at the new venue as he defeated John Isner in the final. The final score line 6-1 6-4. This was Federer’s fourth ATP Miami Open title win. He has so far won the title on four occasions, in 2005 and 2006, and 2017 and 2019.   

In The WTA leg of the Miami Open, Ash Barty won her first WTA Miami Open in 2019. She defeated Karolina Pliskova 7-6 6-3 in the Finals.

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