The Miami Masters 1000, which will be played in parallel between the ATP and the WTA, will begin tomorrow with the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz and the Polish Iga Swiatek as current champions and big favorites for the title and the presence of eight Argentine tennis players in the draw for male singles.

The competition, on a cement surface and with prizes of $10,156,105, will begin this Wednesday at its new venue since 2019, Hard Rock Stadium, where the Miami Dolphins, one of the NFL’s main teams, are based.

The big favorite is Alcaraz, 19, who regained world number one last Sunday after winning the Indian Wells Masters 1000, after winning the final against Russian Daniil Medvedev (5th) by 6-3 and 6-2 .

Note that the competition will not again have the Serbian Novak Djokovic (2nd) or the Spaniard Rafael Nadal (13th).

In the case of the Serb, his absence, as happened in Indian Wells, is due to the fact that the American government did not allow him to enter the country for not having been vaccinated against the coronavirus, while “Rafa” is recovering from an injury and he will not return until April on the European tour on brick dust.

Among the ladies, the big favorite is Swiatek (1st) and her rivals to beat will be the Kazakh Elena Rybakina (7th), champion Sunday in India Wells, and the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka (2nd), finalist of the tournament disputed in Californian Desert.

As for the Argentines, besides Cerúndolo, Sebastián Báez, Diego Schwartzman, Pedro Cachín, Federico Coria, Tomás Martín Etcheverry, Facundo Bagnis and Guido Pella will play.

According to the draw for the main draw, the eldest of the Cerúndolo brothers, Argentina’s number one since his 31st place in the world rankings, will start his participation directly in the second round against the winner of the cross between the Spaniard Jaume Munar (66th) and a tennis player fell out of the rankings.

For his part, Báez (33rd), also excluded from the initial round, will face the winner of the meeting between the American Marcos Girón (71st) and a tennis player from the “qualy”.

The other who will skip the first round is “Little” Schwartzman (38th), who will face the Briton Kyle Edmund (544th) or the Chinese Yibing Wu (64th).

In turn, Bagnis de Santa Fe (100th) will make his debut against a rival out of the standings, but if he overtakes him, Alcaraz (1st from Murcia) will play him later.

Pella de Bahia (581st) will make his debut against the Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas (88th) and if he passes him he will go to the second round against the Canadian Denis Shapovalov (30th), while Cachín (63rd) from Cordoba will face the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics (74th) and if he overcomes it, he will then go against the Dane Holger Rune (8th).

La Plata’s Tomás Martín Etcheverry (73rd) will make his debut against a “quality” rival and if he succeeds he will have to face Russian Karen Khachanov (16th), while Coria (67th) from Rosario will play against to the Czech ascendant Jiri Lehecka (44°).